Abstract：
The study presents research focused on factors influencing performance in municipal solid waste management (MSWM) at the level of individual municipalities in the Czech Republic. Czech municipalities possess a specific municipal structure that is characteristic of high fragmentation, in which municipalities spatially resemble conglomerates. In spite of their typically small size, they cling to their own independence and are thus willing to assume full responsibilities in MSWM. In recognition that expenditure on MSWM is the primary concern to municipalities and that there are secondary environmental interests in waste separation, four alternative models of waste management service production are considered for a sample of 470 Czech municipalities that capture performance from different standpoints. Performance in MSWM is assessed by dint of data envelopment analysis (DEA). Full frontiers are employed simultaneously with order-m partial frontiers and resulting unconditional-to-conditional scores are investigated for the influence of twelve contextual factors describing operating conditions of MSWM. The analysis accounts for the fact that in this case the twelve contextual factors are found non-separable from the process underpinning the provision of MSWM. It is revealed that performance in MSWM improves with the availability of recycling consolidation facilities, but programs inciting waste separation or green waste collection do not bring about the anticipated effect. The findings are instrumental in planning of MSWM and equip municipalities with policy advice that is useful in improving performance in MSWM and subsequently in reaching ever stricter environmental targets requested over time at both national and international levels translated to a municipal level.
摘要：
该研究提出了研究重点是影响捷克共和国各个城市一级的城市固体废物管理（MSWM）绩效的因素。捷克市政当局拥有高度分散的特定市政结构，其中市政当局在空间上类似于企业集团。尽管它们通常很小，他们坚持自己的独立性，因此愿意在MSWM中承担全部责任。认识到MSWM的支出是市政当局的主要关切，废物分离存在次要的环境利益，针对470个捷克城市的样本，考虑了四种废物管理服务生产的替代模型，这些城市从不同的角度捕获了绩效。MSWM的性能通过数据包络分析(DEA)进行评估。同时使用完整边界和m阶部分边界，并研究了无条件条件分数，以了解描述MSWM运行条件的十二个上下文因素的影响。分析说明了这样一个事实，即在这种情况下，发现十二个上下文因素与支持提供MSWM的过程不可分。结果表明，MSWM的性能随着回收整合设施的可用性而提高，但是，鼓励废物分离或绿色废物收集的计划并没有带来预期的效果。这些发现有助于MSWM的规划，并为市政当局提供政策建议，这些建议有助于提高MSWM的绩效，并随后实现国家和国际两级要求的更严格的环境目标，从而转化为市政一级。
