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Synergies and Trade‐Offs in Circular Economy and Community Development Nexus: Pathways to Local Sustainability

open access: yesCorporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Recent scholarship shows growing interest in the circular economy (CE) approach, which promotes resource‐efficient, community‐friendly activities. However, scientific evidence is still needed on the synergies and trade‐offs between CE and community development (CD).
Michael Odei Erdiaw‐Kwasie   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Social life cycle analysis as a tool for sustainable management of illegal waste dumping in municipal services

Journal of Cleaner Production, 2019
Some wastes are illegally dumped on public/private areas, causing several aesthetic, environmental, economic and social negative impacts and representing a public hazard.
A. C. Santos, Paula Mendes, M. Teixeira
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Eco-efficiency assessment of municipal solid waste services: Influence of exogenous variables.

Waste Management, 2021
Improving the eco-efficiency of municipalities in the provision of municipal solid waste (MSW) services is fundamental in the context of a circular economy.
L. Delgado-Antequera   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Are there scale economies in urban waste and wastewater municipal services? A non-radial input-oriented model applied to the Portuguese local government

Journal of Cleaner Production, 2019
Local government policy intervention, especially by means of structural reform, requires a detailed knowledge of the scale and scope characteristics of the local government services, explicitly solid urban waste collection and wastewater treatment ...
Paulo Caldas   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Municipal Structure and Services

Canadian Public Policy / Analyse de Politiques, 1975
Most students of local government and a growing number of practitioners in both elective and appointive offices have come to the conclusion that its structure, responsibilities and financial resources are out of step with the needs and realities of the modem Canada.
T. J. Plunkett, W. Hooson
openaire   +1 more source

A stochastic frontier analysis of the efficiency of municipal solid waste collection services in China.

Science of the Total Environment, 2020
Governments in many developing countries, such as China, are investing a lot of human, financial and material resources to ensure that as much of municipal solid waste (MSW) as possible is collected for centralized harmless treatment and disposal.
Xiuhua Fan   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

State and municipal service

2019
The textbook deals with the main issues of the course "State and municipal service": General issues of state and municipal service, sources of law governing the state and municipal service, positions of state and municipal service, the legal status of state and municipal employees, issues of combating corruption in the state and municipal service ...
Sergey Hazanov   +16 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Impact of politicians’ salaries and their dedication regime on the efficiency of municipal public services

Local Government Studies, 2020
Cases of corruption, the financial and economic crisis, and citizens’ growing interest in public affairs have contributed to the political changes that have taken place in Spain in recent years.
Bernardino Benito   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The Diffusion of e-Services in Danish Municipalities

2004
Among the European countries Denmark is ranked high with respect to on-line services. This paper presents a preliminary, exploratory analysis of variables supporting the diffusion of eServices in Danish municipalities. The objective of the study is to perform an explorative search for explanatory variables, which make municipalities adopt eServices ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Experiments in Routing Vehicles for Municipal Services

2018 International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPCS), 2018
In this paper, route planning of waste collection trucks using R&R (Ruin and Recreate) approach is explored. We assume the trucks are guided by the central depot in selecting the optimal route for waste collection. Heuristic algorithms are simulated to find the optimal routes for the waste management fleet.
Imran Mahmood   +3 more
openaire   +1 more source

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