Jana SoukopováMasaryk University | MUNI · Department of Public Economics
Jana Soukopová
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Introduction
Professor (Associate) at the Department of Public Economics, Faculty of Economics and Administration, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic. My areas of expertise include public utilities, performance assessment, project management, cost efficiency analysis.The long term research interests include municipal costs and waste management services.
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March 2018 - present
Position
- Principal Investigator
Description
- Project "Analysis of the South Moravian Region´s Potential in Relation the the Circular Economy", Reg. No. TL01000305
January 2017 - present
Position
- Investigator
Description
- Project "Identifying key factors of successful inter-municipal cooperation", Reg. No. GA17-15887S
January 2015 - December 2016
Position
- Principal Investigator
Description
- Project ‘Unfair competition and other economic factors influencing the efficiency of the provision of public services’ funded by the Czech Science Foundation, Reg. No. GA15-08032S
Education
October 1999 - February 2005
October 1993 - May 1998
October 1993 - April 1999
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Publications (96)
This article investigates conditions in the Czech Republic and Slovakia to answer the following questions: Is there any evidence of an optimum mode of waste management provision? Do economies of scale exist in waste management in the Czech Republic? Data from the Czech Republic and Slovakia did not confirm internal or external provision of waste ma...
Waste management is a common public service whose provision is the responsibility of local governments. As is usual with public services, the question of its efficiency naturally arises. The majority of studies focus on such efficiency from the perspective of the provider. This is based on the assumption that waste collection expenditure is a funct...
The study examines how selected factors influence the efficiency and effectiveness of municipal waste management expenditure. The analysis is based on research concerning municipalities in the Czech Republic (year 2014, N=365). Two research methods are used: a survey which generated qualitative data about the preferences of municipal representative...
Cross-border cooperation can be an example of a non-hierarchical co-governance tool based on the principle of multi-level governance, which was successfully implemented mainly thanks to European integration as part of building EU territorial cohesion. As a new tool, it has not been limited by the experience of public administration organizations to...
Contracting waste management services is one of the most commonly used approaches to the delivery of this service and this topic is clearly in the focus of frequent academic research.
The goal of this article is to examine trends in the area of solid waste collection and disposal on the municipal level for the Czech Republic and Slovakia in terms o...
This paper analyses the role of selected institutional factors on the costs of waste management in the Czech Republic, a country with extreme territorial fragmentation. The analysis is based on two original datasets from 2,065 municipalities. A model is constructed which determines the relevance of selected factors with respect to the unit cost of...
The publication deals with instruments that can be used to transition municipalities to a circular economy. It identifies possible information, motivation and voluntary instruments, which can be used particularly by representatives of municipalities to support citizens to environmentally friendly behavior, waste prevention and use of other availabl...
This chapter discusses the issue of efficiency of the different modes of the provision of local public services in two selected new EU member states – the Czech Republic and Slovakia. The Czech Republic and Slovakia have a long common history and it is feasible to include both of them in the analysis. The first main part of the chapter analyses the...
The transition to a more circular economy has been adopted as a guiding principle in several national policies. The present paper reviews the international definitional, theoretical, and methodological approaches to the circular economy originating in the Western environment with a view to assessing their applicability in the (post-) transitional c...
This article deals with the phenomenon of repeated contracts, specifically the effect of trust in public contracts. Our main objective is to identify the factors that influence the concluding of repeated contracts and to verify whether repeated contracts lead to increases in prices. We use a complex dataset of public procurement of municipalities i...
Purpose
The paper aims to deal with the analysis of the factor leading to the repeated selection of the specific supplier and the effect of this recurrent selection on overpricing of public contracts.
Design/methodology/approach
A mix of quantitative and qualitative methods is used to achieve this goal. To analyze the chances of obtaining repeated...
Increasing pressure of the European Union on diverting municipal waste from landfills requires an active role of households and commands a radical change of their behavior. Knowledge of behavioral patterns enables an effective design of municipal waste management systems. Based on several factors influencing environmental behavior, this paper aims...
This paper focuses on intermunicipal cooperation and provides a new and innovative approach to evaluating the cost effectiveness and cost efficiency of municipal waste management. We examine a sample of 710 municipalities in two regions in the Czech Republic between 2014 and 2016. We investigated two forms of intermunicipal cooperation: joint publi...
The chapter assesses selected dimensions of the efficiency of local service delivery in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. The findings indicate that externalisation does not deliver the expected results and that there are multiple factors behind this—especially limited competition and limited quality of contract management. The fact that very good r...
The paper discusses municipal waste strategies for approaching the European Union (EU) recycling targets that were set out in the Commission Decision (2011/753/EU) focused on establishing rules and calculation methods for these targets. We analyse the calculation of recycling targets for municipal waste in 2010 – 2015 by using four calculation meth...
This paper contributes to the scholarly conversation on national third sectors by rethinking the existing predominantly Anglo-Saxon literature in the context of transitional economies. Using a qualitative comparative analysis to determine the effect of social enterprises on the “for-profits-in-disguise” phenomenon, this paper contributes to the dev...
This paper focuses on the internal aspects of intermunicipal cooperation, providing a new and innovative approach to the cost effectiveness of municipal waste management. We examine a sample of 658 municipalities in the Czech Republic’s South Moravian Region and 205 cooperating municipalities separately during 2012 - 2014. The results, based on ord...
The paper focuses on the efficiency of different forms of local service delivery in the Czech waste collection market, which shows a high degree of concentration. Based on data collected in 2014 from 2065 municipalities, the results of regression analysis indicate that public-private partnerships are more expensive than other delivery forms. Contra...
The paper deals with the effect of competition on municipal public expenditure. The impact of competition on municipal waste management expenditure is ambiguous. The purpose of this paper is to analyse the nature of competition in the waste management market and its impact on municipal waste management expenditure in the four regions in the Czech R...
The article is focused on empirical analysis of municipal waste management services in the Czech Republic. Authors have identified the following key factors for public utility efficiency and effectiveness: recycling, competition, form of company ownership, the effects of economies of scale, inter-municipal cooperation, distance to landfill and hybr...
The paper deals with the effect of competition on municipal public expenditure. The impact of competition on municipal waste management expenditure is ambiguous. The purpose of this paper is to analyse the nature of competition in the waste management market and its impact on municipal waste management expenditure in the four regions in the Czech R...
The DECWASTE forecasting waste generation information system is presented. It is based on Annexes I, II and III of Regulation (EC) No 849/2010 amending Regulation (EC) No 2150/2002 of the European Parliament and of the European Council on waste (WSR). DECWASTE forecasts the quantity of waste generated for each waste category listed in Section 2(1)...
Local governments are responsible for the delivery of a large variety of very different public services. The article is focused on two issues: 1) we try to discover whether the local governments in the Czech Republic prefer to be “producers” or “providers” of the waste-collection services; 2) we test and compare the efficiency of “production” and t...
Municipal waste generation and treatment represent important parts in the circular economy approach, which is being more and more soundly promoted by the European Union among its members. While the issue of industrial waste stream is developing quite progressively, the issue of municipal waste remains a challenge. Compared to the industry, municipa...
This chapter discusses the issue of efficiency of the different modes of the provision of local public services in two selected new EU member states - the Czech Republic and Slovakia. The Czech Republic and Slovakia have a long common history and it is feasible to include both of them in the analysis. The first main part of the chapter analyses the...
Municipal waste management is a relatively young yet dynamically growing sector of the national economy in the Czech Republic. Theoretically, there are numerous factors influencing municipal solid waste (MSW) management expenditure, e.g. amount of generated MSW, price level (price of MSW treatment facilities), quality of services, frequency of serv...
This chapter discusses the transformation changes and the recent modes and problems of the provision of local public services in two selected new EU member states – the Czech Republic and Slovakia. The Czech Republic and Slovakia have long common history and it is feasible to include both of them into the analysis. The first part of the chapter foc...
Local government is one of the fundamental parts of public administration of a democratic state. Municipality is a basic territorial unit and a basic unit of local government in the Czech Republic, which is entitled to a large degree of independence from the state and to manage own affairs in own interest. There are almost 6250 municipalities in th...
The analysis presented here follows the theme of intermunicipal cooperation and constitutes a systematic test of impact of intermunicipal cooperation in the Czech Republic. Our empirical analysis used linked open data and data from the survey of Czech municipalities to examine the dynamics of intermunicipal cooperation in the market of solid waste,...
Mnoho veřejných služeb podleha problemům spojených s nedostatecnou velikosti spravniho uzemi a spoluprace obci představuje možnost, jak tyto problemy vyřesit. Meziobecni spoluprace předevsim diky usporam z rozsahu představuje jednu z možnosti obci, jak usetřit naklady a zvýsit efektivitu vynakladaných veřejných prostředků. Cilem tohoto přispěvku je...
This chapter covers two new EU member states, the Czech Republic and Slovakia. It describes the socialist era and the transformation after 1989. Concerning changes, main local public utilities were first transferred from national committees to local governments and soon afterwards the process of at least partial asset privatisation and outsourcing...
The goal of this chapter is to characterise the local self-government system in the Czech Republic in general and with specific focus on two selected areas – waste management services and municipal benchmarking.
The hybridity phenomenon has received increasing attention in the scientific literature worldwide. However, this is largely western literature, which is not perfectly suited to the transitional context of Central and Eastern Europe, respecting its specific features. The lack of relevant research on hybridity in the post-communist countries shows a...
Today, the increasing importance of waste management and the question of its efficiency is a broadly discussed topic, both on the theoretical and practical level. The present paper provides the results of a comprehensive analysis of the competitiveness of the environment with regard to waste management in the Czech Republic, Olomouc Region, while f...
The marketization of nonprofit organizations is of both theoretical relevance and practical importance. In the presented paper, we examined the scope of nonprofit marketization in the post-transitional context of the Czech Republic in order to determine whether the nonprofit commercial revenues are replacements for or additions to other funding sou...
National environmental data facilities and services are part of the environmental information systems of the Ministry of the Environment of the Czech Republic that have been under development since 1990. In 2010 the development of the National Information System for Collecting and Evaluating Information on Environmental Pollution project started, c...
The main argument supporting the need for public funding of agricultural NGOs is that the intensifying relations between the government and NGOs bring significant benefits to sustainable agriculture and rural development. We address both the public funding of the agricultural NGOs in times of financial and economic crisis and the dynamics of the de...
This paper is based on an analysis of factors influencing the selection of waste collection companies by municipal authorities in selected municipalities in the Czech Republic, and their impact on the cost efficiency of current municipal expenditures. The aim of this paper is analyzing the factors influencing the choice of waste management company...
This article investigates the history of local self-government and public administration in relation to waste management to answer a question: Is there any relationship between the development of local self-government in towns and public administration in the Lands of the Bohemian Crown and the current state of development? Findings regarding the d...
The paper deals with the historical development of local self-government in the context of the development of the public administration as a whole during the First Czechoslovak Republic. It presents historical roots of the public administration in the former imperial Austria-Hungary, which was different from other European countries with its comple...
Economies of scale are a standard topic in economic theory, frequently applied for example in the analysis of monopolies. They exist when a firm optimizing its production costs while facing some fixed costs enjoys lower per unit production costs as the production increases. Similarly to other production units municipalities have to be large enough...
The paper discusses the mathematical and economical model of municipal waste management implemented in Maple system. It has been developed for the real needs of the decision support of the Ministry of Environment of the Czech Republic and regional governments. This mathematical and economical model is designed as a universal tool for prognosis of g...
It is determined the score of selected economic and ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) factors by DEA method in the design of policy measures that are intended to remedy corporate performance.
Data envelopment analysis (DEA) gives a very powerful tool to decision makers in an organization. DEA is then a natural choice for an application of operations research or mathematical modelling of an evaluation of corporate performance. This method was initially proposed to evaluate the efficiency. In our paper the level of efficiency represents t...
Currently there is a massive deployment of information and communication technologies in modeling of advanced quantitative methods (optimization, stochastic and dynamic programming) in economy. Also, there is a deployment of methods from the field of artificial intelligence (neural networks, genetic algorithms) in order to construct a mathematical...
The paper introduces an integrated waste management model of the Czech Republic which was developed as a balanced network model for a set of sources (mostly municipalities) of municipal solid waste connected with a set of chosen waste treatment facilities processing their waste. Model is implemented as a combination of four models including environ...
This paper deals with the standard and implicit VAT rates. The VAT is a key tax collection resource, representing an average of 7.7% of GDP. Standard VAT rates may not provide a simple key to defining VAT collection (as % of GDP). The implicit VAT rate, rather than the standard VAT rate, is relevant for defining VAT collection. This paper focuses o...
Territorial performance assessment poses a contemporary challenge. A standard indicator used for defining territorial or regional performance is gross domestic product (GDP). This indicator reflects the performance of a specific territorial unit quite reliably, but it has inherent limitations. For example, the performances of smaller units are diff...
Local authorities need simple economic tools and methodology how to evaluate public expenditure effi ciency. There are a lot of ways for measuring effi ciency of public expenditure however methods or economic tools which get actual information about effi ciency of current public spending are rare. The paper presents new methodology for evaluating c...
Článek obsahuje výsledky analýzy konkurenčního prostředí v odpadovém hospodářství. Pro analýzu byl zvolen Pardubický kraj a období 2008 – 2012. Autoři navazují na výzkum, který byl proveden v Jihomoravském kraji v období 2007 – 2011 a nepotvrdil, že by konkurenční prostředí mělo teoreticky očekávatelný vliv na výdaje obcí na nakládání s odpady. Úvo...
The paper presents a methodology and information system for evaluating the efficiency of current municipal environmental protection expenditures. The methodology and information system were approved by the Ministry of the Environment of the Czech Republic as a voluntary tool for municipal officials. The proposed methodological procedure for evaluat...
Within implementation of Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council 2007/06/ES of 23 October 2007 on the assessment and management of flood risks the classification was recommended to Czech Republic which sorties the areas affected by floods according to the degree of threat and economic potential of these areas. For this purpose was d...
This paper is devoted to the development of methodology and information and communication technology tools for decision support in the public sector. It analyses appropriate metrics for a municipal solid waste management expenditure (MSWE) efficiency assessment using cost-effectiveness Analysis (CEA). In addition to many other methodological issues...
SOUKOPOVÁ JANA, MALÝ IVAN: Competitive environment in waste management and its impact on municipal expenditures. Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis, 2013, LXI, No. 4, pp. 1113–1119 This paper is based on the analysis of competitive environment in waste management in the South Moravian Region and its impact on cur...
HŘEBÍČEK JIŘÍ, KALINA JIŘÍ, SOUKOPOVÁ JANA: Integrated economic model of waste management: Case study for South Moravia region. Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis, 2013, LXI, No. 4, pp. 917–922 The paper introduces and discusses the developed integrated economic model of municipal waste management of the Czech Re...
The paper presents the methodology for monitoring and evaluating the efficiency of current environmental protection expenditures of municipalities developed within the project of Ministry of Environment of the Czech Republic. The methodology has been approved as the voluntary environmental tool for municipal officials. A proposal of methodological...
The paper presents the methodology for monitoring and evaluating the efficiency of current environmental protection expenditures of municipalities developed within the project of Ministry of Environment of the Czech Republic. The methodology has been approved as the voluntary environmental tool for municipal officials. A proposal of methodological...
Paper examines development of municipal solid waste management in South Moravia Region and impact of global financial crisis. Expenditure development is compared with the development of GDP and total sum of municipal expenditure of region. Paper also compares capital and current waste expenditure and shows notable difference in development. Current...
This paper, based on the analysis of current municipal expenditures on waste management, compares expenditure per capita and examines the impacts of competitive environment and type of waste management company (character of ownership) on the expenditure efficiency. Expenditures are compared by the number of competing companies in neighbouring munic...
In this paper we decompose the process of the municipal waste management expenditures evaluation, and we construct a method for their analysis which, based on inputted variables, calculates "minimal value" of expenditures per municipal waste ton that municipality should spend. Through these variables the method should be able to reflect the uniquen...
Souhrn V příspěvku byla provedena analýza a zhodnocení výdaj obcí na nakládání s komunálním odpadem na obyvatele a vyhodnocení vlivu konkurenního prostedí a charakteru vlastnictví svozové spolenosti na efektivnost tchto výdaj. Vyhodnocení a srovnání je provedeno u všech 673 obcí Jihomoravského kraje v letech 2007 – 2011. Klíová slova: odpadové hosp...
The paper introduces an integrated waste management model of the Czech Republic which was developed as a balanced network model for a set of sources (mostly municipalities) of municipal solid waste connected with a set of chosen waste treatment facilities processing their waste. Model is implemented as a combination of four models including environ...
The paper discusses the mathematical and economical model of municipal integrated waste management system (IWMS) that has been developed for the real needs of the decision support of the Ministry of Environment of the Czech Republic and regional governments. The model of IWMS is designed as universal and is im-plemented as a combination of three mo...
SOUKOPOVÁ, J., FUROVÁ, L.: Macroeconomic implication of the fl oods – a case study for the regions of the Czech Republic. Acta univ. agric. et silvic. Mendel. Brun., 2012, LX, No. 7, pp. 289–298 Floods are natural events with extensive impact on property and life of aff ected people. They signifi cantly came in 1997 into the life of Czech society a...
The Value Added Tax (VAT) is one of the key resources within tax collection and therefore VAT eff ectiveness and VAT complexity represent one of the current world topics. Standard rates of VAT may and may not be the simple key to defi ne whether VAT is important in the tax mix or not. This paper focuses on the question whether the amount of the VAT...
Current trends of corporate performance evaluation, i.e. the measurement of environmental, social, economic and governance performance of company and corporate sustainable reporting are discussed in the paper. The relationship between corporate performance and reporting is important and the development of modern and advanced methods to identify the...
V příspěvku je na základě analýzy běžných výdajů obcí na nakládání s komunálním odpadem provedeno vyhodnocení jejich efektivnosti pomocí metody analýzy efektivnosti nákladů (CEA) při volbě různých indikátorů pro měření efektivnosti. Efektivnost je v pojetí autorky chápána z hlediska metodologie 3E. Vyhodnocení a srovnání efektivnosti výdajů bylo pr...
The paper discusses the economic model of construction and operation of biogas plant treating biodegradable municipal waste that has been developed for the real needs of the project in the Czech Republic. The model is designed as an universal for different sizes of catchment areas and biogas plants and it allows due to own setting of input values m...
Current trends of corporate performance evaluation, i.e. the measurement of environmental, social, economic and governance performance of company and corporate sustainable reporting are discussed in the paper. Appropriate tools of top management for the company strategy choice of sustainable success are necessary to develop. In doing so, the relati...
This paper deals with an efficiency of current municipal expenditure on environmental protection and suggests a methodology
for assessing this efficiency. A proposal of methodological procedure for evaluating efficiency of municipal environmental
protection expenditure uses multi-criteria evaluation, where a dominant criterion of performance is mod...
The paper presents main results of the research financed the Ministry of Environment of the Czech Republic in the project No. SP/4i2/26/07. It discuses the corporate key performance indicators for Environmental Management Systems certified by standard ISO 14001:2005 or/and by the Regulation (EC) No. 1221/2009, about voluntary participation of organ...
Current trends of corporate performance evaluation, i.e. the measurement of environmental, social, economic and governance performance of company and corporate sustainable reporting are discussed in the paper. The relationship between company performance and reporting its key performance indicators is important, therefore, the development of modern...
Presented paper Model of cost and price relationships for municipal waste management of the Czech Republic introduces an integrated waste management model of the Czech Republic which was developed as a balanced network model for a set of sources (mostly municipalities) of municipal solid waste (MSW) connected with a set of chosen waste treatment fa...
The paper introduces methodology designed in order to evaluate and compare effi ciency of chosen municipal waste expenditure via calculating effi ciency ratings. First part of the paper briefl y describes current situation around environmental protection expenditure in Czech Republic and explains reason why the area of current municipal waste expen...
Odborná publikace obsahuje dílčí výsledky provedené analýzy environmentálních výdajů územních (místních) rozpočtů do oblasti ochrany životního prostředí v členění za jednotlivé oblasti ochrany životního prostředí a za kraje, a to za období let 2005 až 2009. Obsahuje základ výklad definice environmentálních výdajů a jejich klasifikaci, včetně vymeze...
V článku je na základě analýzy běžných výdajů obcí III. typu na nakládání s odpady provedeno vyhodnocení jejich efektivnosti pomocí metody analýzy efektivnosti nákladů (CEA) a pomocí metody modifikované metody CEA s komplexním kritériem a jejich následné srovnání. Vyhodnocení a srovnání efektivnosti výdajů je provedeno u obcí s rozšířenou působnost...
Ekonomika životního prostředí, jak ji vidí kolektiv autorů, hledá ekonomické optimum kvality životního prostředí a zabývá se problematikou ekonomicky efektivní ochrany životního prostředí, a to obecně i v jednotlivých oblastech ochrany životního prostředí. Od svých počátků byla ekonomika životního prostředí pojímána spíše jako ekonomika znečišťován...
Strategic decision-making for dealing with municipal solid waste is a problem currently exercising the minds of many Member States throughout the European Union. This paper is devoted to environmental–economic modelling of the strategic developments in Municipal Solid Waste Management Systems at the Czech Republic. It was created by the authors for...
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The paper is devoted to environmental modelling, particularly modelling of Integrated Municipal Solid Waste Management Systems at the Czech Republic (IMSWMS). There are considered input macroeconomic variables (landfills fees, price of electricity, tax on incomes, percentage of subsidies, etc.) prescribed by the government regulator (Ministry of En...
An integrated model of municipal waste management of the Czech Republic was developed as a balanced network model for a set of municipal solid waste (MSW) sources (mostly municipalities) connected with a set of chosen waste treatment facilities processing their waste. The model involves composting, energy utilisation, material recycling, and land-f...
This article deals with the efficiency of the usual municipal expenditures on environmental protection and suggests a methodology for assessing this efficiency. Firstly, the paper analyses the concept of efficiency from the view of individual rationality. The authors consider efficiency in the sense of 3E
methodology – economy, efficiency and effec...
This article deals with the efficiency of the usual municipal expenditures on
environmental protection and suggests a methodology for assessing this
efficiency. Firstly, the paper analyses the concept of efficiency from the view of
individual rationality. The authors consider efficiency in the sense of 3E
methodology – economy, efficiency and effec...
There is presented a model for the evaluation of cost and price relationships in the municipal waste management in the Czech Republic (CZ), created by the authors solved the project for the Ministry of Environment. The model was developed based on appropriate input macroeconomic variables and it enables to simulate the development of variant waste...
V článku je popsán návrh metodiky pro měření efektivnosti výdajů obcí ČR na životní prostředí. Autoři vychází z analýzy teoretických pojetí efektivnosti z hlediska konceptu racionálního chování jednotlivce. Efektivnost je v pojetí autorů chápána z hlediska metodologie 3E a metodologie udržitelného rozvoje, kdy je zohledňován sociální, environmentál...
The book is an outcome of the project SP/4i2/26/07 "Proposal of new indicators for monitoring the effectiveness of environmental management by industry and the system of environmental reporting in the evaluation of the linkages between environment, economy and society", which was implemented by Masaryk University from 2007 to 2010.
V poslední době je Česká republika vnímána jako země, kde bují korupce a kde se hospodaří s veřejnými prostředky netransparentním způsobem. Vzhledem k tomu, že legislativa týkající se zadávání veřejných zakázek zaznamenala poměrně dynamický vývoj v posledních 2 letech, je nezbytné analyzovat směr, kterým se celý proces zadávání vydává a k čemu směř...
This paper undertakes the analysis of project management and processing for Cohesion Fund with using developed information and communication technology tools. Presented data – flow analysis enables to implement information and communication technology tools, which allow planning, specifying and assessing projects for Cohesion Fund more effective. T...
Environmental protection expenditures in the Czech Republic are closely observed in two ways – via sample survey of CSU and via the Ministry of Finance’s information system ARIS. It looks like for purposes of detailed analysis of environmental protection expenditures (EPE) from municipality budgets it is better to analyze only data from the MF CR....
Questions
Questions (2)
I am looking for research papers using methodology of Ragin (1987) or Scharpf (1997). Many thanks!
I have some data from a previous project on efficiency of municipal WM costs in the Czech Republic (2008, 2010 - 2013), part of which I have recently published.
I am interested in collecting similar data in EU countries (especially in Post-communist countries) for the purpose of comparing efficiency and factors of efficiency of municipal waste management relative to public finance (municipal cost) across Europe. I am looking for researchers with an interest in this area and who will be willing to collect data in their locale, contribute to the analyses and interpretation, and collaborate with me in publishing of the results (as co-author).
