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Community satisfaction is an important determinant of the perceived overall quality of life, and can be defined as a function of opportunities a community provides to its residents. Although measurable at a specific point in time, it does not only reflect current communal activities, but also past developments and their path dependency. In this paper we identify and empirically verify factors influencing community satisfaction in post-socialist urban settlements. In the process we are using the Slovenian post-socialist cities of Nova Gorica and Velenje as illustrative examples, and the average Slovenian community satisfaction in urban settlements as a benchmark. This unique combination of data allows us to derive important lessons for community residents, community planners, and local policy-makers.

Community satisfaction is an important determinant of the perceived overall quality of life, and can be defined as a function of opportunities a community provides to its residents. Although measurable at a specific point in time, it does not only reflect current communal activities, but also past developments and their path dependency. In this article, the authors have identify and empirically verify factors influencing community satisfaction in post-socialist urban settlements. In the process, they are using the Slovenian post-socialist cities of Nova Gorica and Velenje as illustrative examples, and the average Slovenian community satisfaction in urban settlements as a benchmark. This unique combination of data allows them to derive important lessons for community residents, community planners, and local policy-makers. Adapted from the source document.

The purpose of this research is to investigate whether there is a decline in the amounts of generated municipal waste that is influenced by the changes which cannot be attributed to the changes in the socio-economic variables and can therefore be ascribed to a changing behaviour and the effectiveness of the policies implemented with the aim of preventing generation of waste. The analyses in this paper cover the data of 30 European countries in the period 2002-2015. The method applied is the panel data analysis of the data on seven socio-economic variables by using both the fixed-effect and the random-effects models. The results of our research show that if we control the model for the socio-economic variables, a decline in the amounts of generated municipal waste can be observed in the period 2011-2015, indicating certain effectiveness of the implemented policies on waste prevention in Europe. ; Namen te študije je raziskati, ali je prišlo do upada v količinah nastalih komunalnih odpadkov, na katerega vplivajo spremembe, ki se jih ne da pripisati spremembam v socialno-ekonomskih spremenljivkah in se zatorej lahko pripišejo spremenjenemu vedenju in učinkovitosti politik, ki se izvajajo z namenom zmanjšanja količin nastalih odpadkov. Analize znotraj študije zajemajo podatke 30 evropskih držav v obdobju 2002-2015. Uporabljena je metoda panelne analize podatkov s sedmimi socialno-ekonomskimi spremenljivkami z uporabo tako modela s fiksnim učinkom, kakor tudi modela z naključnimi učinki. Rezultati naše raziskave pokažejo, da v primeru kontroliranja socialno-ekonomskih spremenljivk zaznamo upad v količinah nastalih komunalnih odpadkov v obdobju 2011-2015, kar nakazuje na določeno učinkovitost politik, izvedenih za preprečevanje nastajanja odpadkov v Evropi