BACKGROUND Home care services in Norway are provided for free, and municipalities are responsible for their provision to all those in need of them, in accordance with the Act on Municipal Health and Care Services. The costs of home care services are increasing. Many municipalities are now working to find the best cost-effective solutions to ensure that home care services are of sufficient quali...

Strategic Planning for Development, including the Conservation of Different Dimensions of the Environment, has increasingly involved citizens, not simply to have their opinions but also to become involved in the planning process and in the initiation and management of different types of projects aimed at achieving the objectives of different Strategic Orientations identified in the Strategic De...

This paper examines the economic and political conditions that influence people’s attitudes regarding a municipality break-up. The theoretical model predicts intra-municipal differences in tax bases, political preferences, and population size to affect the expected gain from secession. The predictions of the model are tested using data on local referenda about municipality partitioning in Swede...

Sec.A1503.001.AAAUTHORITY TO ISSUE REVENUE BONDS. (a) A municipality by ordinance may issue revenue bonds to: (1)AAestablish, improve, enlarge, extend, or repair: (A)AAan airport of the municipality; or (B)AAa building, improvement, landing field, or other facility or service the municipality considers necessary, desirable, or convenient for the efficient operation and maintenance of an airport...

The process of declaration of municipality is taking place in Nepal at times but not in the regular way and with given regulations. Transformation into a municipality has been regarded as a matter of great pride and reputation in many cases, so was the case of Baglung as well. The proclamation of municipality does not possess any probation period to make any necessary modification. When the peo...

The goal of the present study was quality evaluation of the natural waters in Stara Zagora Region according to two parameters: total iron and zinc. With regard to the investigations conducted during October-December, 2009: the surface waters of Stara Zagora Region, towards the measured zinc and iron concentrations, could be classified as I category; the groundwaters of Stara Zagora Region, towa...

objectives: the awareness of citizens leads to access to their rights. in addition to natural rights (that are noted in many investigations) people have rights that are called social rights. this survey investigates some rights that are related to the responsibilities and missions of urban management. with revising of the notion of active citizenship, citizens need purposive participation. so a...

ii iii CONTENTS Page LIST OF TABLES v LIST OF FIGURES v ABSTRACT vi ACKNOWLEDGMENTS vii 1. CONTEXT 1 2. INTERNAL MIGRATION AND POPULATION CHANGE REVIEWED 3 2.1 Migration, urbanisation and suburbanisation waves 3 2.1.1 Concentration during the post war period to the 1970s 3 2.1.2 Concentrated dispersion: the 1970s 6 2.1.3 Concentration and dispersion: the 1980s 8 2.2 The interplay of fertility, ...

Municipality activities require interoperability both between municipality offices, and government and private sector. Due to the lack of interoperability, traditional municipalities, and governments face serious problems. These are mainly poor quality and high cost of services, and low economical revenues. E-municipality has been proposed for solving these problems. An interoperability infrast...

municipality, as one of the most important legal entities in the urban management, can play an effective role in providing local public services and administration of some local public affairs. the role of the municipality in urban management is different rangin from full authority to implementation of small affairs. the place and importance of the municipality is determined by the laws and leg...