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    <pageNumber>35</pageNumber>
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    <type>masterthesis</type>
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    <completedDate>2023-01-03</completedDate>
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    <title language="eng">Incentives to Support a Better Waste Management System in the Maldives - A Case Study of the Tourism Resort Sector</title>
    <abstract language="eng">The increased pressure from inadequate solid waste management on the environment of small island developing states suggests the importance to find socially acceptable resource management solutions. In the Maldives, the tourism sector plays an important role as it contributes significantly to the generation of waste, but also fosters economic development. To show how the tourism sector can be encouraged to adopt pro-environmental behavior, this study examines existing waste management problems and explains why they persist despite measures taken in the country. The core of the study consists of discussing incentives that encourage tourism resorts to improve their own solid waste management and support the nationwide waste management infrastructure. The research approach adopted includes a literature review to embed the topic of waste management into the common pool resource discussion and to investigate and cluster incentive structures leading to pro-environmental behavior. Based on the pertinent literature, 19 semi-structured in-depth interviews were conducted with different tourism resorts in the Maldives to obtain primary qualitative data to answer the research questions. The results of this study suggest that external incentives, primarily social/psychological incentives, followed by economic incentives and complemented by regulatory measures, lead to an appropriate strategy to steer the tourism sector towards more sustainable waste management. The previously mentioned points can be supported by company-wide and personal standards as internal incentives. Main findings include that policy and action recommendations based on incentives can be developed most effectively including the perceptions and the needs of stakeholders. The inclusion of individual actors’ perceptions will most effectively foster the socially more optimal handling of (natural) resources. More advanced social experiments and trial phases of the outlined priority policy implementation are recommended.</abstract>
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    <licence>Keine Lizenz vergeben. Es gilt das deutsche Urheberrecht.</licence>
    <author>Evita Hegmann</author>
    <series>
      <title>Abschlussarbeiten 2023</title>
      <number>48</number>
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    <subject>
      <language>deu</language>
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      <value>Solid waste management</value>
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      <language>deu</language>
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      <value>Incentive-based policies</value>
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      <value>Common pool resources</value>
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      <language>deu</language>
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      <value>Small island developing states</value>
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    <collection role="institutes" number="03">FB3: Wirtschafts- u. Rechtswissenschaften I</collection>
    <collection role="studycourse" number="">International and Development Economics</collection>
    <thesisPublisher>Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin</thesisPublisher>
    <thesisGrantor>Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin</thesisGrantor>
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