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Lyons, Seán, Murphy, Liam and Tol, Richard S J (2010) Estimating historical landfill quantities to predict methane emissions. Atmospheric Environment, 44 (32). pp. 3901-3906. ISSN 1352-2310
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There are no observations for methane emissions from landfill waste in Ireland. Methane emissions are imputed from waste data. There are intermittent data on waste sent to landfill. We compare two alternative ways to impute the missing waste " data" and evaluate the impact on methane emissions. We estimate Irish historical landfill quantities from 1960-2008 and Irish methane emissions from 1968-2006. A model is constructed in which waste generation is a function of income, price of waste disposal and, household economies of scale. A transformation ratio of waste to methane is also included in the methane emissions model. Our results contrast significantly with the Irish Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) figures due to the differences in the underlying assumptions. The EPA's waste generation and methane emission figures are larger than our estimates from the early 1990s onwards. Projections of the distance to target show that the EPA overestimates the required policy effort.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Schools and Departments: | University of Sussex Business School > Economics |
| Subjects: | G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GE Environmental Sciences > GE170 Environmental policy |
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| Depositing User: | Richard Tol |
| Date Deposited: | 19 Apr 2012 11:38 |
| Last Modified: | 30 Nov 2012 17:11 |
| URI: | http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/38247 |