ABSTRACT
To date waste governance analyses have tended to take one of two approaches. The first is to examine in detail the processes of governance in one country (e.g. Bulkeley et al. 2007), the second compares certain aspects of waste governance such as waste production, policy instruments or institutional structures in widely differing contexts (such as Hill et al. 2002 and Parto 2005). The aim here is to combine the benefits of both approaches and undertake a detailed examination of waste governance – from policy structures, through interactions between spheres and tiers of governance, to policy outcomes – in two countries that exhibit broadly similar characteristics in terms of population size, history and development. More specifically both countries have experienced a growth in waste production in recent years and have adopted the waste hierarchy as the overarching framework for sustainable waste management.
