In addition, the factors associated to better levels of municipal performance are identified, and the extent of their effects is quantified.
In addition, it is concluded that municipal performance tends to improve with the environmental policy expenditure and scale size, and decline with buildings' age, population density and the proportion of buildings with private ownership.
In this aspect, the experience in Tuscany region in Italy is a good example for China's purpose [ 36- 38] and Li et al. [ 39] explored the possibility of building China's municipal healthcare performance evaluation system by learning from the Tuscan experience.
The present research recognises that a comprehensive assessment of municipal energy performances is an essential starting point to facilitate local planning in enhancing energy efficiency.
For example, the city of Barra Mansa in Brazil has since 1998 a participatory budget council comprising 18 girls and 18 boys, elected to office, who monitor the wider municipal council's performance.
Performance in municipal wastewater reclamation applications will be compared with that of conventional membrane technology.
Nyhan, R.C., and Martin, L.L. (1999) Assessing the performance of municipal police services using data envelopment analysis: an exploratory study.
Flow simulations have been carried out to evaluate the effects of combustion chamber design and air/combustion gas flow configuration on the overall performance of municipal solid waste incinerators.
The findings may also be of use to construction companies that are willing to implement an environmental management system or simply wish to improve on-site environmental performance in municipal engineering projects.
Also, the 10-year performance for Municipal Bonds included only the period from 9/14/2007 through the present as the former was the inception date for the ETF.
Another concern centered on the ANC's disastrous performance in municipal elections in August, when it lost control of three major cities, Johannesburg, Pretoria and Port Elizabeth, to the opposition.
