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Title: Alternative management structures for municipal waste collection services: The influence of economic and political factors

Abstract

Highlights: • We analyzed the factors that influence on the restructuring of MSW services. • We evaluated five different alternatives for public and private service. • Our analysis covers a broad time horizon, 2002–2010. • We used a conditional fixed-effects logistic regression as the evaluation method. • Municipalities tend to contract out the MSW service in the presence of high costs and fiscal stress. - Abstract: Identifying and characterising the factors that determine why a local authority opts for a particular way of managing its waste collection service is an important issue, warranting research interest in the field of municipal solid waste (MSW) management. This paper presents empirical evidence spanning a broad time horizon (2002–2010) showing that economic and political factors impact in different ways on the provision of waste management services. We examine five alternatives in this area, including public and private service delivery formulas and, within each field, individual and joint options. Our findings highlight the importance of the service cost and that of the various indicators of fiscal stress as determinant factors of management decisions regarding the provision of MSW management services.

Authors:
Publication Date:
OSTI Identifier:
22436813
Resource Type:
Journal Article
Journal Name:
Waste Management
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 34; Journal Issue: 11; Other Information: Copyright (c) 2014 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); Journal ID: ISSN 0956-053X
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
12 MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE WASTES, AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES; COST; ECONOMICS; MUNICIPAL WASTES; POLITICAL ASPECTS; SOLID WASTES; WASTE MANAGEMENT

Citation Formats

Plata-Díaz, Ana María, E-mail: amplata@ugr.es, Zafra-Gómez, José Luis, E-mail: jlzafra@ugr.es, Pérez-López, Gemma, and López-Hernández, Antonio Manuel, E-mail: alopezh@ugr.es. Alternative management structures for municipal waste collection services: The influence of economic and political factors. United States: N. p., 2014. Web. doi:10.1016/J.WASMAN.2014.07.003.
Plata-Díaz, Ana María, E-mail: amplata@ugr.es, Zafra-Gómez, José Luis, E-mail: jlzafra@ugr.es, Pérez-López, Gemma, & López-Hernández, Antonio Manuel, E-mail: alopezh@ugr.es. Alternative management structures for municipal waste collection services: The influence of economic and political factors. United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.WASMAN.2014.07.003
Plata-Díaz, Ana María, E-mail: amplata@ugr.es, Zafra-Gómez, José Luis, E-mail: jlzafra@ugr.es, Pérez-López, Gemma, and López-Hernández, Antonio Manuel, E-mail: alopezh@ugr.es. 2014. "Alternative management structures for municipal waste collection services: The influence of economic and political factors". United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.WASMAN.2014.07.003.
@article{osti_22436813,
title = {Alternative management structures for municipal waste collection services: The influence of economic and political factors},
author = {Plata-Díaz, Ana María, E-mail: amplata@ugr.es and Zafra-Gómez, José Luis, E-mail: jlzafra@ugr.es and Pérez-López, Gemma and López-Hernández, Antonio Manuel, E-mail: alopezh@ugr.es},
abstractNote = {Highlights: • We analyzed the factors that influence on the restructuring of MSW services. • We evaluated five different alternatives for public and private service. • Our analysis covers a broad time horizon, 2002–2010. • We used a conditional fixed-effects logistic regression as the evaluation method. • Municipalities tend to contract out the MSW service in the presence of high costs and fiscal stress. - Abstract: Identifying and characterising the factors that determine why a local authority opts for a particular way of managing its waste collection service is an important issue, warranting research interest in the field of municipal solid waste (MSW) management. This paper presents empirical evidence spanning a broad time horizon (2002–2010) showing that economic and political factors impact in different ways on the provision of waste management services. We examine five alternatives in this area, including public and private service delivery formulas and, within each field, individual and joint options. Our findings highlight the importance of the service cost and that of the various indicators of fiscal stress as determinant factors of management decisions regarding the provision of MSW management services.},
doi = {10.1016/J.WASMAN.2014.07.003},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/22436813}, journal = {Waste Management},
issn = {0956-053X},
number = 11,
volume = 34,
place = {United States},
year = {Sat Nov 15 00:00:00 EST 2014},
month = {Sat Nov 15 00:00:00 EST 2014}
}