Economic Aspects of Local Authorities Functioning

The Local Authorities' Part

Ranking environmental aspects in environmental management systems: a new method tested on local authorities.

A new method is described to determine and to rank the significance of the environmental aspects of a local authority, as a basis for the implementation of an environmental management system (EMS). The method is especially important as for the requirements of the EU "Environmental Management and Audit Scheme" (EMAS), a standard open to all sectors including public authorities. The method has be...

Explaining variations in spending levels between local authorities: an economic analysis

This paper puts forward and tests a simple model of how the median voter in a local authority (LA) may determine the level of its expenditure in relation to its needs, to see what lessons may be learned. For Scottish LAs, variations in spending in relation to need are very small, but the model explains these variations well; it also suggests that the Scottish National Party leads to the lowest ...

Local environmental health planning. Guidance for local and national authorities.

The World Health Organization was established in 1948 as a specialized agency of the United Nations serving as the directing and coordinating authority for international health matters and public health. One of WHO’s constitutional functions is to provide objective and reliable information and advice in the field of human health, a responsibility that it fulfils in part through its publications...

The Formation of Institutional Foundations of Local Self-government Authorities Functioning in Ukraine as the Entities of Civil Protection

Based on the analysis of the fundamental special laws and regulations that govern the issues of civil defense, protection of population and territories as well as other objects from emergencies, and also local self-government, which were adopted throughout the period of Ukraine's independence, the article explores the process of formation of the institutional foundations of local self-governmen...