title: Alternative management structures for municipal waste collection services: the influence of economic and political factors.
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.affiliation: Departamento de Economía Financiera y Contabilidad, Campus de Cartuja, s/n, Universidad de Granada, Spain. Electronic address: amplata@ugr.es.
authors.forename: Ana María
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Plata-Díaz
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Economía Financiera y Contabilidad, Campus de Cartuja, s/n, Universidad de Granada, Spain. Electronic address: jlzafra@ugr.es.
authors.forename: José Luis
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Zafra-Gómez
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Economía Financiera y Contabilidad, Campus de Cartuja, s/n, Universidad de Granada, Spain. Electronic address: gemmapl@ugr.es.
authors.forename: Gemma
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Pérez-López
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Economía Financiera y Contabilidad, Campus de Cartuja, s/n, Universidad de Granada, Spain. Electronic address: alopezh@ugr.es.
authors.forename: Antonio Manuel
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: López-Hernández
mesh_terms: D011057:Politics; D012037:Refuse Disposal / Q000191:economics* / Q000379:methods*; D062611:Solid Waste / Q000032:analysis*
chemical_list: D062611:Solid Waste
keywords: Cost; Fiscal stress; Municipal solid waste management