Objective
Europe’s cities are some of the world’s greatest tourism destinations. The socio-economic impact of tourism is extraordinary and urban tourism, but it brings at the same time a range of negative externalities, including high levels of unsustainable resource consumption and waste production. In comparison with other cities, tourist cities have to face additional challenges related to waste prevention and management due to their geographical and climatic conditions, the seasonality of tourism flow and the specificity of tourism industry and of tourists as waste producers.
UrBAN-WASTE will support policy makers in answering these challenges and in developing strategies that aim at reducing the amount of municipal waste production and at further support the re-use, recycle, collection and disposal of waste in tourist cities. In doing so UrBAN-WASTE will adopt and apply the urban metabolism approach to support the switch to a circular model where waste is considered as resource and reintegrated in the urban flow.
UrBAN-WASTE will perform a metabolic analysis of the state of art of urban metabolism in 11 pilot cities. In parallel a participatory process involving all the relevant stakeholders will be set up through a mobilization and mutual learning action plan. These inputs will be integrated in the strategies along with a review of the most innovative existing technologies and practices in the field of waste management and prevention. The strategies will then be implemented in the 11 cities and the results will be monitored and disseminated facilitating the transfer and adaptation of the project outcomes in other cases.
Fields of science
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesdatabases
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringwaste management
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesphysical geographycartography
- social scienceseconomics and businesseconomicsmicroeconomics
- social sciencespolitical sciencespolitical policiescivil society
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Funding Scheme
RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinator
38071 Santa Cruz De Tenerife
Spain
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Participants (26)
2628 CN Delft
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1210 BRUXELLES
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8000 Aarhus C
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39001 Santander
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1180 Wien
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2400 Valby
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98003 SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE
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69100 KOMOTINI
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1165 Kobenhavn
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96100 SIRACUSA
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75740 Paris
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29001 Malaga
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
750 07 Uppsala
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20 000 DUBROVNIK
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35006 LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
97404 Saint Denis De La Reunion
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1100-365 Lisboa
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35001 Las Palmas De Gran Canaria
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20129 Milano
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
38001 SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE
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06300 Nice
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45221 Ioannina
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9500-094 Ponta Delgada
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35195 Vaxjo
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1500 Lefkosia
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50122 Firenze
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