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Talking Trash: Valuing Household Preferences for Garbage and Recycling Services Bundles Using a Discrete Choice Experiment [PDF]
Facing increasing costs for tipping fees and worker salaries, many smaller municipalities have begun to explore ways to adopt mechanized pay-as-you throw container garbage collection and changes to the basket of currently provided services, such as the ...
Boyer, Tracy A.
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Reconsidering the Demand for Municipal Public Goods Specification : Evidence from French Municipalities [PDF]
Following Bergtrom and Goodman (1973), this paper can be integrated in the set of studies that have estimated the demand for municipal public services.
Marie-Estelle Binet
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Protecting Shoreland and Riparian Buffers Workshop (2007) [PDF]
, 2008 The New Hampshire Estuaries Project (NHEP) organized and implemented a workshop on protecting shoreland and riparian buffers. A number of other organizations, including three regional planning commissions, NH Fish and Game Department, NH Department of ...
Hunter, Jennifer
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Brain Health, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The World Health Organization (WHO) defines brain health as the maintenance of optimal brain integrity, good mental state, and cognitive function without significant neuropsychiatric disease. Early childhood is a critical period for brain development, which were influenced by early experiences, nutrition, and environmental factors. Disruptions
Yu Ma +5 more
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Subterranean environments contribute to three‐quarters of classified ecosystem services
Biological Reviews, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Beneath the Earth's surface lies a network of interconnected caves, voids, and systems of fissures forming in rocks of sedimentary, igneous, or metamorphic origin. Although largely inaccessible to humans, this hidden realm supports and regulates services critical to ecological health and human well‐being.
Stefano Mammola +30 more
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Sovremennye Issledovaniâ Socialʹnyh Problem, 2013 The purpose of the article is to study the main criteria and system of monitoring the quality of housing and communal services.In the course of the research the main factors forming the quality of providing housing and municipal services, such, as ...
Tamara Nigmatovna Nerovnja +1 more
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Fiscal Federalism and Public Service Provision in Canada [PDF]
This paper provides a general overview of the allocation of revenues and expenditures across levels of governments in Canada and discusses how public services in specific areas are financed and delivered.
Jean-François Tremblay
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Strategies of Sufficiency Under Institutional Complexity: A Study in the German Food Industry
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Organizations face increasing institutional complexity as they navigate competing demands from their institutional environment regarding financial performance and environmental responsibility. In our study, we examine how 39 award‐winning organizations in the German food industry frame sufficiency, a sustainability strategy focusing on ...
Lena Leifeld, Simon Oertel
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Service Delivery in Rural Municipalities: Privatize, Cooperate, or Go It Alone? [PDF]
Choices in production and contracting arrangements for a wide range of services were studied using data from approximately 1,000 small, mostly rural municipalities from Illinois, New Hampshire and Wisconsin.
Deller, Steven C. +2 more
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Operationalising Sufficiency in an Organisational Context: A Systematic Literature Review
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Efficiency‐led sustainability is important but often fails to deliver absolute reductions in resource use, leaving organisations exposed to rebound effects. What remains underexplored is how sufficiency, the strategic limitation of consumption and resource use, is operationalised within organisational contexts.
Shahrokh Nikou +2 more
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