Cost efficiency in municipal solid waste service delivery. Alternative management forms in relation to local population size

Pérez-López, Gemma; Prior, Diego; Gómez, J. L.; Plata-Díaz, Ana María

doi:10.1016/j.ejor.2016.05.034

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“…In addition to the established areas, there are several other areas where cooperation would be beneficial, such as spatial management, tourism, an intermunicipal public defender's office, waste management, traffic, watercourse management, elementary education and preschool, project application, and obtaining EU funding. Although there is variation in the duties of municipal authorities in different countries, international researchers have also noticed closer intermunicipal cooperation, especially in communal services (Hophmayer-Tokich and Kliot 2008;Põldnurk 2015;Pérez-López et al 2016) and joint spatial and development planning (Ioan-Franc, Ristea and Popescu 2015;Romanczyk 2015).…”

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“…Examples from abroad (Hophmayer-Tokich and Kliot 2008;Romanczyk 2015;Ioan-Franc, Ristea and Popescu 2015;Põldnurk 2015;Pérez-López et al 2016) and from Slovenia (Marot 2010) show that the governance of functionally connected areas is more successful when there is cooperation between authorities. This is especially true for Slovenia because of its small size and its human resources and financial limitations, which could be solved through various forms of intermunicipal cooperation.…”

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Forms, areas, and spatial characteristics of intermunicipal cooperation in the Ljubljana Urban Region

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This article studies the strength, forms, and areas of intermunicipal cooperation, and their advantages, disadvantages, and spatial characteristics based on the example of the Ljubljana urban region. Surveys, interviews, data analysis of joint administration and joint companies, and analysis of joint development projects show that cooperation in joint municipal administration is limited to parking authorities and the intermunicipal inspectorate, joint companies dealing with communal infrastructure and traffic, and joint projects mainly focusing on economic infrastructure, tourism, mobility, spatial and development planning, and applying for EU projects. The areas of former municipalities, the municipalities in Ljubljana Marsh Nature Park, and the municipalities that are part of the Development Partnership of the Center of Slovenia connect more often than other areas. The advantages of cooperation include better opportunities for EU funding, economizing, and joint representation of municipal interests, whereas disadvantages include problems with coordinating funding and a lengthy coordination period, which is additionally hindered by unsuitable legislation and a lack of financial incentives, human resources, time, and ideas.

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Forms, areas, and spatial characteristics of intermunicipal cooperation in the Ljubljana Urban Region

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“…However, due to differences in the excessive price paid by citizens [29] and the neglect of private companies, some local governments have returned the public management of water or sanitation services [15]. Several contributions in the literature aimed to identify which type of management (private or public) favored the efficiency of the services [30][31][32]. In relation to the management of drinking water supply, [17] highlighted how private management should be more efficient than public management.…”

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Achieving Sustainable Development Goals. Efficiency in the Spanish Clean Water and Sanitation Sector

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In recent years, achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is becoming a major challenge for local governments. This research focuses on the role of Spanish local governments in the fulfillment of SDG-6, which aims to ensure the availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all citizens. Specifically, this study analyses the evolution of the efficiency of Spanish local governments, and its determining factors, in the achievement of the SDG-6. The results indicate that the taxes associated with water supply and sanitation services, the private management of these services, population density, local government budget revenues, the income of the inhabitants of the municipality and the fragmentation of local governments are factors that can improve the evolution of the efficiency of Spanish local governments in achieving the SDG-6.Sustainability 2020, 12, 3015 2 of 13 debate on the efficiency in the management of water resources, which has become even more relevant with Agenda 2030 and, in particular, in relation to SDG-6. In this regard, measuring the evolution of the efficiency in the provision of water supply and sanitation services, and identifying how it can be improved to achieve SDG-6, is a further step towards the prosperity of the planet and people. However, despite the relevance of the topic, previous studies have investigated the efficiency of local governments in the provision of drinking water through Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and regression models. These approaches do not allow the measurement of inter-annual efficiency. In light of this, there is a clear need for more advanced methodologies capable of enabling a better understanding of the phenomenon. In this regard, our study aims to fill this important gap by using a different approach, represented by the Malmquist index (inter-annual evolution of efficiency) and a truncated regression model. In fact, this methodology allows an assessment of the inter-annual evolution of the efficiency of Spanish local governments in relation to the resources used to achieve SDG-6.Regarding the analysis of the determinants, this study investigates the impact of the characteristics of the service and the demographic, economic, and political factors of the municipality represented by taxes, type of management, population density, level of tourism, citizens' income, political ideology and political strength of the government.The structure of this study is organized as follows. After this introduction, we review the literature analyzing the relevance of SDGs and the determinants of efficiency in water supply and sanitation. Section 3 presents the methodology, referring to the sample, variables, and econometric model. Section 4 presents the results and discussion. Finally, in Section 5, we draw the main conclusions and implications of our findings, the limitations of the study, and the directions for further research. Literature Review

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“…Secondly, they are legally required to provide certain public services. Finally, due to stricter information disclosure requirements and the lower relative cost of implementation, large LGs are usually more innovative in the adoption of new technologies [15,60,70].…”

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Enhancing Sustainability Transparency in Local Governments—An Empirical Research in Europe

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In the current socioeconomic context, the question of local government sustainability transparency is of great interest to policymakers, managers, citizens and other stakeholders, and yet one to which previous research has devoted little specific attention. At the same time, the Internet has become an instrument of good governance worldwide and government entities in Europe have strived to promote e-government to improve transparency towards citizens. The aim of this study was to identify factors that can help politicians and managers improve practices of sustainability information disclosed by European local governments. To do so, an empirical study was conducted of 91 municipalities in nine countries, comparing three main administrative cultures. Our analysis of the study results highlights various demographic, socioeconomic, financial and legal factors that may be useful to policymakers and managers in promoting the online provision of sustainability information in Anglo-Saxon, Nordic and Southern European countries.

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Cost efficiency in municipal solid waste service delivery. Alternative management forms in relation to local population size

Cited by 112 publications

References 57 publications

Forms, areas, and spatial characteristics of intermunicipal cooperation in the Ljubljana Urban Region

Forms, areas, and spatial characteristics of intermunicipal cooperation in the Ljubljana Urban Region

Achieving Sustainable Development Goals. Efficiency in the Spanish Clean Water and Sanitation Sector

Enhancing Sustainability Transparency in Local Governments—An Empirical Research in Europe

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