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Municipal solid waste management services in Africa and Arab countries [PDF]
, 2018 This is the second of a series of reports, part of a research project on global waste services, that Public Services International commissioned to develop its work on the municipal waste ...
Weghmann, Vera, Van Niekerk, Sandra
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Variance in the institutions of local utility services evidence from several European countries
, 2016 This chapter presents the different options of institutional choice for the delivery of local utility services like water, waste, energy or transport in selected European countries. The authors concentrate empirically on three major options: provision by
Reichard, Christoph, +2 more
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A practical electrodialysis model for accelerating system development
AIChE Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Empirical optimization of electrodialysis (ED) is dependent on repetitive experiments with incremental adjustments, which is cost prohibitive at scale. While models can reduce the costs associated with optimization and scale‐up, existing ED models are limited in application to specific use cases and tend to be developed for the exploration of ...
Smith Pittman +3 more
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, 2011 The task of municipal problem solving has become a team sport that has spilled beyond the borders of government agencies and now engages a far more extensive network of social actors - public as well as private, non-profit and profit.
Majale, C.
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Finnish Local Government Barometer 2002: Municipal Managers, Chairmen of Municipal Executive Boards
, 2005 Tutkimuksessa kartoitettiin kunnan- ja kaupunginjohtajien sekä kunnan- ja kaupunginhallitusten puheenjohtajien mielipiteitä julkisista palveluista, maassamuutosta ja kuntien talouden parantamiskeinoista.
Kunnallisalan kehittämissäätiö +1 more
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Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.A zero‐watermarking algorithm that combines a refined convolutional additive self‐attention vision transformer (CAS‐ViT) with a discrete wavelet transform variance‐based feature descriptor (DVFD) is proposed for protecting the privacy of medical images in mobile healthcare services.
Pei Liu +6 more
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Shadow Budgets, Fiscal Illusion and Municipal Spending: The Case of Germany [PDF]
The paper investigates the existence of fiscal illusion in German municipalities with special focus on the revenues from local public enterprises. These shadow budgets tend to increase the misperception of municipal tax prices and seem to have been ...
Peter Haug
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American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract Germany's Renewable Energy Sources Act (REA), enacted in 2000 and subsequently amended, subsidized national renewable energy production with fixed feed‐in tariffs for renewable energy sources (RE) from wind, solar, and biogas. Empirical studies suggest that the policy was creating windfall effects for landowners and attribute farmland use ...
Lars Isenhardt +6 more
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Governance challenges in the provision of municipal services: in the Vhembe District Municipality
Africa’s Public Service Delivery and Performance ReviewBackground: The local communities judge their municipalities’ performance through the provision of municipal services and the treatment that they get from its officials. The challenge of governance adversely affects the delivery of municipal services. However, it appears that municipalities are failing their respective local communities.
Takalani N. Mudzusi +2 more
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Local Public Services in Wisconsin: Alternatives for Municipalities with a Focus on Privatization [PDF]
Both rural and urban municipal officials, faced with increased local resistance to higher taxes, increasing expenditure needs, weakening financial support from higher levels of government, and the growing pressure to "do more with less" have accelerated ...
Hinman, Donald L. +2 more
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