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Hazardous waste management in South Africa mining : a CGE analysis of the economic impact

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dc.creator Wiebelt, Manfred
dc.date 2001
dc.date.accessioned 2013-10-16T06:04:49Z
dc.date.available 2013-10-16T06:04:49Z
dc.date.issued 2013-10-16
dc.identifier Development Southern Africa 0376-835x 18 2001 2 169-187
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10419/2593
dc.identifier ppn:331481138
dc.identifier.uri http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/2593
dc.description There is no doubt that improved hazardous waste management in mining and mineral processing will reduce environmental and health risks in South Africa. However, sceptics fear that waste reduction, appropriate treatment and disposal are not affordable within the current economic circumstances of the country. In particular, it is argued that higher treatment and disposal costs would weaken the country's international competitiveness in important export markets on the one hand, and place heavy adjustment costs on black workers on the other. Thus, improvements in waste management are not enforceable, from either an economic or a social point of view. This article deals mainly with the first aspect and touches upon the second. It investigates the short-term and long-term sectoral impacts of an environmental tax on hazardous waste in South African mining, using an open-economy multisectoral computable general equilibrium (CGE) model. The results bear out the expectation that the possibilities for shifting higher production costs are limited in an open economy. Moreover, the results also show that the brunt of the adjustment resulting from an isolated approach towards hazardous waste management will have to be borne by black workers.
dc.language eng
dc.rights http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen
dc.subject ddc:330
dc.subject Sonderabfall
dc.subject Abfallabgabe
dc.subject Bergbau
dc.subject Umweltpolitik
dc.subject Wirtschaftspolitische Wirkungsanalyse
dc.subject Allgemeines Gleichgewicht
dc.subject Social Accounting Matrix
dc.subject Südafrika
dc.title Hazardous waste management in South Africa mining : a CGE analysis of the economic impact
dc.type doc-type:article


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