Determinants of efficiency in the provision of municipal street-cleaning and refuse collection services

Waste Management

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1099-1108

  Benito López, Bernardino ^a   Moreno Enguix, María del Rocio ^a   Solana Ibañez, José ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATEGORICAL VARIABLES; COMPARATIVE INDEX; DATA COLLECTION; DOUBLE BOOTSTRAPS; ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS; ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY; PER CAPITA INCOME; PUBLIC HEALTH; PUBLIC STREETS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; ROBUST EFFICIENCY; TWO STAGE; URBAN POPULATION; WASTE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS;

DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; ECONOMICS; EFFICIENCY; ESTIMATION; POPULATION STATISTICS; REFUSE COLLECTION; STREET CLEANING; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

WASTE DISPOSAL;

CLEANUP; DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; REFUSE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SERVICE PROVISION; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BOOTSTRAPPING; CLEANING; DATA ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; INCOME; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; POPULATION DENSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT; STREET CLEANING; TOURISM; URBAN POPULATION; WASTE DISPOSAL;

CITIES; EFFICIENCY, ORGANIZATIONAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POLITICS; POPULATION DENSITY; REFUSE DISPOSAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SPAIN; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

SPAIN;

EID: 79954976070     PISSN: 0956053X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wasman.2011.01.019     Document Type: Article

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