Sustainable provision of school buildings in the Netherlands: An empirical productivity analysis of local government school building operations

Building operations and construction are responsible for a large part of global energy use and carbon dioxide emissions. In this paper, we present an analysis of the efficiency and productivity of the provision of school buildings by Dutch municipalities. A cost function is estimated for the years 2005–2016 using stochastic frontier methods...

Measuring the performance of local administrative public services

The academic literature provides excellent methodologies to identify best practices and to calculate inefficiencies by stochastic frontier analysis. However, these methodologies are regarded as a black box by policy makers and managers and therefore results are hard to accept. This paper proposes an alternative class of stochastic frontier...

Home(L)essentials: The Thin Line between Local and Global Identities

An investigation into modern Nomadic ways of life. A search that taks place on boundaries; 'Place the feeling Space', 'Virtual the Realty of cyberspace' and 'Time the Duration of Space'. It is a celebration of 'local authenticity' and 'global efficiency'. Eventually it gives directions in solving the questions of how to solve the homeless nature...