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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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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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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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Cottage Cheese or Chicken? An AFSCME Fight for Public Food Service [PDF]
, 1990 [Excerpt] Confronted with mounting fiscal problems, many state and local government officials consider privatization or contracting out of public services a quick fix for their difficulties.
Magid, Marcia
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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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The Demand for Local Public Services in Sweden [PDF]
This paper analyzes the composition of municipal expenditures in Sweden by estimating a demand system for local public services, in which tax revenue collection is treated as endogenous. The estimation is based on the QAIDS specification.
Witterblad, Mikael
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Extent, characteristics and policy applications of Key Biodiversity Areas
Biological Reviews, EarlyView.ABSTRACT A global standard for the identification of Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs) was published 10 years ago to provide a unified set of criteria for identifying ‘sites of significance for the global persistence of biodiversity’. We review the initiative's origins, the KBA identification process, characteristics of the current network, threats, policy
Stuart H. M. Butchart +57 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Although recent literature on the circular economy (CE) has highlighted the important role of ecosystems, there is still limited understanding of the main themes that characterize circular ecosystems. This study addresses this gap by combining a comprehensive topic modeling analysis employing latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) with a systematic
Aline Gabriela Ferrari +4 more
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Управленческое консультирование, 2018 In the article questions of purchases of services of vocational education (on the example of purchases of services in training of specialists in the sphere of purchases for the state and municipal needs) from the point of view of antimonopoly control of
Vadim Valeryevich Vladimirov +1 more
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ALTERNATIVES FOR FINANCING MUNICIPAL SERVICES: THE CASE OF UNIT-PRICED TRASH DISPOSAL [PDF]
New policy is being developed that incorporates not only innovative means of disposal, including the integration of source reduction and recycling, but also innovative approaches to funding disposal of municipal solid waste (MSW).
Hallas-Burt, Shanna +2 more
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