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0000-0003-0344-5200
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Universidade Técnica de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico
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Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 27-05-2020
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 19-02-2022
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 25-03-2022
Abstract: Spatial remoteness in the sense of great distances between population centres and limited access to public services is an on‐going problem in Australian local government, where there exist large, sparsely populated regions dominated by the 'tyranny of distance'. From a public policy perspective, it is important to understand the impact of remoteness on local authorities. Accordingly, in this paper, we estimate the relationship between remoteness and financial sustainability using a 2014–2018 s le of Australian local governments. In general, we find only limited empirical evidence for a relationship between geographical remoteness and financial sustainability as we have proxied it.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 15-03-2018
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2023
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2015
DOI: 10.1016/J.WASMAN.2015.01.024
Abstract: Across the world, rising demand for municipal solid waste services has seen an ongoing increase in the costs of providing these services. Moreover, municipal waste services have typically been provided through natural or legal monopolies, where few incentives exist to reduce costs. It is thus vital to examine empirically the cost structure of these services in order to develop effective public policies which can make these services more cost efficient. Accordingly, this paper considers economies of size and economies of output density in the municipal waste collection sector in the New South Wales (NSW) local government system in an effort to identify the optimal size of utilities from the perspective of cost efficiency. Our results show that - as presently constituted - NSW municipal waste services are not efficient in terms of costs, thereby demonstrating that 'bigger is not better.' The optimal size of waste utilities is estimated to fall in the range 12,000-20,000 inhabitants. However, significant economies of output density for unsorted (residual) municipal waste collection and recycling waste collection were found, which means it is advantageous to increase the amount of waste collected, but maintaining constant the number of customers and the intervention area.
Publisher: Institut Za Lokalno Samoupravo in Javna Narocila Maribor
Date: 31-07-2016
DOI: 10.4335/14.3.279-302(2016)
Abstract: How to evaluate local government or what really matters concerning local government evaluation and who cares about it are questions which are on the table currently across the world. This paper carry out a survey on the wide range of indicators and evaluation models of local government used worldwide and shows that they are based mainly on performance evaluation and financial sustainability ratios. We conclude that they address only part of the problem of strategic management, financing, and sustainable development issues of local government. In particular, the governance dimension is absent. Therefore, a broader vision is proposed that integrates our usual local government evaluation into the important issues of governance and sustainability. This article focus on “measuring what matters” in local government and presents the need of a new evaluation model, a Councils’ Sustainability Index, based on the integration of council’s financial performance with communities’ sustainability and governance dimensions. Thus, it might be an important contribution for the creation of a new paradigm on local government evaluation and councils’ strategic management. The Portuguese case is used to illustrate this purpose.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2018
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 21-03-2018
DOI: 10.3390/SU10040910
Publisher: Institut Za Lokalno Samoupravo in Javna Narocila Maribor
Date: 30-07-2018
DOI: 10.4335/16.3.631-647(2018)
Abstract: This paper considers “measuring what matters” in local government and applies a Council Sustainability Index (CSI) to all 308 Portuguese municipalities. Using a Multi-criteria Decision Analysis Methodology (MCDA), an additive evaluation model is applied which aggregates 25 indicators across four dimensions to assess Portuguese local government sustainability. A critical evaluation of performance is provided along with a financial sustainability analysis and governance evaluation, which identifies the chief factors which explain different councils’ performance. We show that this approach sheds new light on Portuguese local government evaluation. CSI breaks new ground and it is applicable mutatis mutandis to most local government systems worldwide.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 13-04-2015
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 10-09-2018
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-07-2023
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-12-2022
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 28-09-2022
Location: Portugal
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