Original scientific paper
The Attitude of the Local Community towards the Problem of Municipal Waste Disposal: Case Study of Makarska Littoral
Marko MUSTAPIĆ
; Institute of Social Sciences Ivo Pilar, Zagreb
Abstract
This paper analyses the attitude of the local community
towards the problem of municipal waste disposal, setting the
research focus on the differences in perception and behavior
of the respective social actors in the case of blockade and
close-down of "Donja gora" municipal landfill in the
Makarska littoral in the year 2003-2004. The main method
used in the empirical research was the case study method,
within which qualitative and quantitative research techniques
were combined. Before the presentation and the
interpretation of the results, a brief chronology of the "Donja
gora landfill case" was outlined, starting from the landfill
localization in 1976, up until its close-down and remediation
in 2007. The research affirmed the rather negative existing
attitude of the local community of Makarska littoral towards
the municipal waste disposal, finding the distance between
the social actors, places of residence and the landfill to be
the key predictor of their attitudes, beliefs and behavior –
corroborating therefore the general research hypothesis.
Regarding the research findings, it is concluded that the
analyzed case could, in many ways, be regarded as an
example of a typical approach to the resolution of municipal
waste disposal problems in Croatia.
Keywords
local community; municipal waste disposal; the NIMBY syndrome; Makarska littoral
Hrčak ID:
62738
URI
Publication date:
23.12.2010.
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