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Interlocal Cooperation: Its Use and Importance in Small Town Service Delivery

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2017

Beth Walter Honadle
Beth Walter Honadle*
Affiliation:
Statistics, and Cooperatives Service U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Summary:

This symposium focused on the history, development, and characteristics of voluntary interlocal cooperation among small governments in the Northeast. Recent survey research results of a study on patterns and types of interlocal cooperation in Rhode Island and Massachusetts were presented. Interlocal cooperation in the area of solid wastes disposal in Massachusetts was also discussed. Factors contributing to voluntary cooperation in Rhode Island were also analyzed. Both the benefits and the disadvantages associated with interlocal cooperation were treated in the symposium.

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Journal of the Northeastern Agricultural Economics Council , Volume 9 , Issue 2 , October 1980 , pp. 113
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Copyright © Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association 

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