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What is The Zero Waste Europe Network

Chapter 10
Handbook of Research on Smart Territories and Entrepreneurial Ecosystems for Social Innovation and Sustainable Growth
European conservationist movement defined by the introduction of measures and policies aimed at preserving the environment through the non-generation of waste and the start-up of a circular economy.
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Smart Territories, Collaborative Entrepreneurship, and Eco-Friendly Tourism for Development: El Boalo-Cerceda-Mataelpino (Madrid, Spain) Case
José Manuel Saiz-Alvarez (EGADE Business School, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico & Mexican Academy of Sciences, Mexico)
Copyright: © 2020 |Pages: 19
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-2097-0.ch010
Abstract
Zero Waste Europe has awarded the village of El Boalo-Cerceda-Mataelpino (7,090 inhabitants) as the first Zero Waste Municipality of Spain. This chapter analyzes how a smart city has applied environmental conservation policies with the participation of a large number of residents in a public-private collaboration scheme to increase their quality of living, complemented with the application of circular economy and sustainable tourism policies focused on economic growth. Strategies that could be imitated by other small municipalities wishing to increase the quality of life of their population through sustainability.
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