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This book reveals all that can potentially happen when a private company takes over a local water supply system, both the good and the bad. Backed by real life stories of water privatization in action, author Manuel Schiffler presents a nuanced picture free of spin or fear mongering. Inside, readers will find a detailed analysis of the multiple forms of water privatization, from the outright sale of companies to various forms of public-private partnerships. After covering their respective strengths and weaknesses, it then compares them to purely publicly managed water utilities. The book examines the privatization and the public management of water and sewer utilities in twelve countries: the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, the Philippines, Cambodia, Egypt, Jordan, Uganda, Bolivia, Argentina and Cuba. Readers will come to understand how and why some utilities failed while others succeeded, including some that substantially increased access, became more efficient and improved service quality even in the poorest countries of the world. It is natural that a private company taking over a local water supply system causes both fear and worry for consumers. With the aid of solid empirical evidence, this book argues that who manages the system is only half the story. Rather, it is the corporate culture of the utilities and the political culture of where they operate that more often than not determines performance and how well a community is served.
Science (General). --- Development Economics. --- Popular Science. --- Popular Science in Economics / Management. --- Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management. --- Finance/Investment/Banking. --- Water-supply --- Water resources development --- Management. --- Finance. --- Popular works. --- Environmental management. --- Economics. --- Development economics. --- Finance, general. --- Popular Science in Economics. --- Economics --- Economic development --- Funding --- Funds --- Currency question --- Environmental stewardship --- Stewardship, Environmental --- Environmental sciences --- Management --- Economic theory --- Political economy --- Social sciences --- Economic man
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This book compares the lessons learned from a wetland-perspective approach to the changing climate and the requirements of the Water Framework Directive (WFD) with regard to environmental conservation. Examples from Germany and Poland are discussed due to the efficiency of their respective implementations of water conservation policies. Although the general scientific interest in specific issues such as wetlands, climate change, nature conservation and the WFD enjoy a well established position in international environmental research, these four elements are rarely considered together due to the complexity of the processes, biased scenarios of global change and subjective policy background. Major challenges involved in carrying out environmental conservation actions that assess the potential impacts of climate change and management plans on water bodies are identified. The results of this approach are addressed to practitioners in the field of adaptive management in a wetlands context.
Earth Sciences. --- Environmental Science and Engineering. --- Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management. --- Geoecology/Natural Processes. --- Geography. --- Ecology. --- Géographie --- Ecologie --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Environmental Sciences --- Integrated water development. --- Water-supply --- Management. --- Integrated development of water resources --- Water development, Integrated --- Earth sciences. --- Environmental management. --- Environmental sciences. --- Geoecology. --- Environmental geology. --- Geoecology --- Environmental protection --- Physical geology --- Environmental science --- Science --- Environmental stewardship --- Stewardship, Environmental --- Environmental sciences --- Management --- Geosciences --- Physical sciences --- Water conservation --- Water resources development --- Water use --- Balance of nature --- Biology --- Bionomics --- Ecological processes --- Ecological science --- Ecological sciences --- Environment --- Environmental biology --- Oecology --- Population biology --- Ecology --- Wetland conservation --- Environmental Science --- Water Management. --- Conservation of wetlands --- Wetlands --- Wetlands conservation --- Nature conservation --- Conservation --- Environmental Science and Engineering --- Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management --- Geoecology/Natural Processes
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This book analyses policy making processes at the micro-level and offers a unique insight into the fascinating world of policy entrepreneurs, elucidating their strategic modus operandi. The author identifies change strategies and explores the role of individuals in policy change processes. Readers will see how these highly talented and exceptional bureaucrats are constantly on the alert for new opportunities and have the capacity to “sell” and “market” new ideas. Based on a uniquely comprehensive four-year study, entailing more than 60 in-depth interviews and an extensive survey of over 300 water policy entrepreneurs in the Netherlands, this book explores the different strategies that policy entrepreneurs employ. It identifies which conditions affect the policy entrepreneur’s selection of strategies, and, more importantly, it assesses the (contextual) effectiveness of these strategies. Although the context of the study makes this work directly relevant to those in the fields of water resources and environmental management, it delivers universally relevant conclusions on affecting policy change. In addition to the theoretical material that will appeal to scholars and students, this book highlights a series of concrete recommendations for practitioners on how to affect policy change, making it of interest to academics and decision makers in the broad areas of policy change, sustainability, and water management.
Economics/Management Science. --- Public Administration. --- Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management. --- Entrepreneurship. --- Economics. --- Economie politique --- Entrepreneuriat --- Government - General --- Law, Politics & Government --- Political Institutions & Public Administration - General --- Environmental management. --- Public administration. --- Administration, Public --- Delivery of government services --- Government services, Delivery of --- Public management --- Public sector management --- Political science --- Administrative law --- Decentralization in government --- Local government --- Public officers --- Entrepreneur --- Intrapreneur --- Capitalism --- Business incubators --- Environmental stewardship --- Stewardship, Environmental --- Environmental sciences --- Management
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This book provides a systematic way of how to make better decisions in water resources management. The applications of three weighting methods namely rating, ranking, and ratio are discussed in this book. Additionally, data mining on keywords is presented using three popular scholarly databases: Science Direct, Scopus, and SciVerse. Four abbreviated keywords (MCDM, MCDA, MCA, MADM) representing multi-criteria decision-making were used and these three databases were searched for different popular weighting methods for a period of 13 years (2000-2012). The book provides also a review of weighting methods applied in various multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) methods and also presents survey results on priority ranking of watershed management criteria undertaken by 30 undergraduate and postgraduate students from the Faculty of Civil Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia.
Earth Sciences. --- Earth System Sciences. --- Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management. --- Hydrogeology. --- Geography. --- Hydraulic engineering. --- Géographie --- Technologie hydraulique --- Geography --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Physical Geography --- Water resources development --- Multiple criteria decision making. --- Decision making. --- Decision making --- Data processing. --- Decision making with multiple objectives --- MCDM (Decision making) --- Multiattribute decisions --- Multicriteria decision analysis --- Multicriteria decision making --- Multicriteria decision making analysis --- Multiobjective decision making --- Multiple objective decision making --- Earth sciences. --- Environmental management. --- Physical geography. --- Energy development --- Natural resources --- Water-supply --- Engineering, Hydraulic --- Engineering --- Fluid mechanics --- Hydraulics --- Shore protection --- Geohydrology --- Geology --- Hydrology --- Groundwater --- Environmental stewardship --- Stewardship, Environmental --- Environmental sciences --- Management
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The book offers a broad overview of asset management processes for different utilities, with a special emphasis on energy and water. It provides readers with important practical considerations concerning the development of new competitive structures and procedures for guaranteeing a sufficient supply of energy and water in a regulated environment, using clearly defined technical and economic cornerstones. On the one hand asset owners expect suitable interests from their investment and business growth; on the other hand regulators focus more on a reliable and cost-effective customer supply. This book shows how to take into consideration these different perspectives in the process of designing new structures, and how to guarantee organizational transparency. Based on the major tasks of an asset manager, it describes essential principles and boundary conditions for ensuring the optimal use of resources in a network, such as investment and maintenance strategies, equipment service life, investment and operational costs, etc. Moreover, it points out their impact on the organization of the company, including the necessary IT landscape and computer programs. The book is the English translation of Asset Management für Infrastrukturanlagen - Energie und Wasser1, written by the same authors and published by Springer in 2014.
Energy. --- Energy Policy, Economics and Management. --- Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management. --- Facility Management. --- Management of Computing and Information Systems. --- Information Systems. --- Engineering. --- Ingénierie --- Business & Economics --- Industries --- Information storage and retrieval systems --- Systèmes d'information --- Energy industries --- Public utilities --- Management. --- Energy policy. --- Energy and state. --- Environmental management. --- Management information systems. --- Computer science. --- Facility management. --- Power resources --- Construction --- Industrial arts --- Technology --- Informatics --- Science --- Computer-based information systems --- EIS (Information systems) --- Executive information systems --- MIS (Information systems) --- Sociotechnical systems --- Information resources management --- Management --- Facilities management --- Factory management --- Plant engineering --- Environmental stewardship --- Stewardship, Environmental --- Environmental sciences --- Energy and state --- State and energy --- Industrial policy --- Energy conservation --- Communication systems --- Government policy
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This book assesses both the effectiveness and efficiency of implemented Economic Policy Instruments (EPIs) in order to achieve water policy goals, and identifies the preconditions under which they outperform alternative (e.g. regulatory) policy instruments and/or can complement them as part of complex policy mixes. The development of a consolidated assessment framework helps clarify (and where possible, quantify) the effectiveness of each EPI on the basis of different criteria. Outcome-oriented criteria describe how the EPIs perform. They include intended and unintended economic and environmental outcomes and the distribution of benefits and costs among the affected parties. These steps consider the application of cost effectiveness and cost benefits analysis, e.g. to assess ex-post performance of the EPI. Process criteria describe the institutional conditions (legislative, political, cultural, etc.) affecting the formation and operation of the EPI studied (particularly relevant for assessing the possible impacts of using economic instruments), the transaction costs involved in implementing and enforcing the instruments, and the process of implementation. Case studies from Cyprus, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, and the United Kingdom, as well as from Australia, Chile, Israel and the USA are presented in this book. A wide variety of EPIs are also covered, including water-pricing schemes (tariffs, environmental taxes, environmental charges or fees, subsidies on products and practices), trading schemes (tradable permits for abstraction and pollution), and cooperation mechanisms.
Environmental Sciences --- Law, General & Comparative --- Economic History --- Law, Politics & Government --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Business & Economics --- Water. --- Environment. --- Environmental management. --- Environmental law. --- Environmental policy. --- Environmental economics. --- Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice. --- Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management. --- Environmental Economics. --- Water, general. --- Environment, general. --- Hydrology --- Environmental sciences. --- Environmental science --- Science --- Economics --- Environmental quality --- Environment law --- Environmental control --- Environmental protection --- Environmental policy --- Law --- Sustainable development --- Environmental aspects --- Economic aspects --- Law and legislation --- Environmental stewardship --- Stewardship, Environmental --- Environmental sciences --- Management --- Environment and state --- Environmental management --- State and environment --- Environmental auditing --- Government policy --- Adaptation (Biology) --- Environmental adaptation --- Adaptation, Environmental --- Biology --- Self-organizing systems --- Variation (Biology) --- Biological fitness --- Genetics
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The main focus of this book is sustainable management of water resources in a changing climate. The book also addresses the question of how to define and measure the sustainability of Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM). The sustainability of IWRM is an important issue when planning and/or developing policies that consider the impact of climate change, water governance and ecohydrology in the context of a more holistic approach to ensure sustainable management of water resources. Sustainable IWRM is more about processes, and relatively little systematic or rigorous work has been done to articulate what components are the most essential to ensure the ongoing sustainability of IWRM efforts. The chapters cover topics including global prospective of IWRM; allocation of environmental flows in IWRM; echohydrology, water resources and environmental sustainability; climate change and IWRM; IWRM and water governance including social, economic, public health and cultural aspects; climate change resiliency actions related to water resources management sustainability and tools in support of sustainability for IWRM. This book will be of interest to researchers, practitioners, water resources mangers, policy and decision makers, donors, international institutions, governmental and non-governmental organizations, educators, as well as graduate and undergraduate students. It is a useful reference for Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM), ecohydrology, climate change impact and adaptations, water governance, environmental flows, geographic information system and modeling tools, water and energy nexus and related topics.
Physical Geography --- Geography --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Water-supply --- Sustainable development. --- Integrated water development. --- Management. --- Integrated development of water resources --- Water development, Integrated --- Development, Sustainable --- Ecologically sustainable development --- Economic development, Sustainable --- Economic sustainability --- ESD (Ecologically sustainable development) --- Smart growth --- Sustainable development --- Sustainable economic development --- Environmental aspects --- Earth sciences. --- Hydrology. --- Environmental management. --- Hydrogeology. --- Earth Sciences. --- Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management. --- Hydrology/Water Resources. --- Water conservation --- Water resources development --- Water use --- Economic development --- Hydraulic engineering. --- Engineering, Hydraulic --- Engineering --- Fluid mechanics --- Hydraulics --- Shore protection --- Aquatic sciences --- Earth sciences --- Hydrography --- Water --- Environmental stewardship --- Stewardship, Environmental --- Environmental sciences --- Management --- Geohydrology --- Geology --- Hydrology --- Groundwater
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This book demonstrates the application of Life-cycle Cost Approach (LCCA) in the management of infrastructure and other investment projects in the context of developing countries. The main goal is to identify potential opportunities for the adoption LCCA in developing countries, with the help of case studies and best practices. The editors observe that developing countries are plagued with poor and fluctuating service delivery which affords low or no priority for environmental protection. They seek to instill at the policy-making level an understanding of why life-cycle cost assessment is central to achieving the goals of sustainable development as well as sustainable service delivery and to influence the behavior of sector stakeholders. The editors examine the evolution of LCCA from a project appraisal tool to a more comprehensive method of incorporating sustainable development aspects in a variety of sectors. By providing a compendium of concepts, tools and practical experiences, it seeks to broaden the application of LCCA, which is often limited to specific phases of the life-cycle with little or no weight given to environmental aspects. The aim of the book is to mainstream LCCA into governance processes at institutional levels from local to national, in order to increase the ability and willingness of decision makers - both users and those involved in service planning, budgeting and delivery - to reach better informed and more relevant choices among different types and levels of products and services.
Environment. --- Sustainable Development. --- Environment, general. --- Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management. --- Agriculture. --- Complex Systems. --- Environmental sciences. --- Sustainable development. --- Sciences de l'environnement --- Agriculture --- Développement durable --- Economische aspecten. --- Environmental management -- Case studies. --- Environmental management. --- Pollution -- Economic aspects -- Periodicals. --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Environmental Sciences --- Life cycle costing. --- Water-supply --- Management. --- Costing, Life cycle --- L.C.C. (Life cycle costing) --- LCC (Life cycle costing) --- Life cycle cost --- Life cycle cost analysis --- Terotechnology --- System theory. --- Costs, Industrial --- Farming --- Husbandry --- Industrial arts --- Life sciences --- Food supply --- Land use, Rural --- Environmental science --- Science --- Development, Sustainable --- Ecologically sustainable development --- Economic development, Sustainable --- Economic sustainability --- ESD (Ecologically sustainable development) --- Smart growth --- Sustainable development --- Sustainable economic development --- Economic development --- Environmental aspects --- Systems, Theory of --- Systems science --- Environmental stewardship --- Stewardship, Environmental --- Environmental sciences --- Management --- Philosophy --- Balance of nature --- Biology --- Bionomics --- Ecological processes --- Ecological science --- Ecological sciences --- Environment --- Environmental biology --- Oecology --- Population biology --- Ecology
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The availability of clean water is a major global challenge for the future due to a rapidly growing population and urbanization where further stress in water resources is expected due to the impact of climate change. The wide range of impacts includes for example changes in hydrology, moisture availability, spatial and temporal variations in magnitude of stream flow, and dwindling of water levels with adverse effect on wetlands and ecosystems. As a consequence, water management has become a serious issue and was identified as a global societal challenge. Climate change forecasting is one of the key issues in recent research on sustainable water resources management. This book aims to come up with views to address the queries of planners, policymakers, and general people for water resources management under uncertainty of climate change, including examples from Asia and Europe with successful adaptive measures to change the challenge of climate change into opportunities.
Environment. --- Climate Change. --- Hydrology/Water Resources. --- Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts. --- Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management. --- Environmental sciences. --- Climatic changes. --- Sciences de l'environnement --- Climat --- Changements --- Water resources development. --- Water-supply -- Effect of global warming on. --- Water-supply -- Management. --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Meteorology & Climatology --- Water-supply --- Effect of global warming on. --- Management. --- Hydrology. --- Environmental management. --- Climate change. --- Energy development --- Natural resources --- Global warming --- Changes, Climatic --- Changes in climate --- Climate change --- Climate change science --- Climate changes --- Climate variations --- Climatic change --- Climatic changes --- Climatic fluctuations --- Climatic variations --- Global climate changes --- Global climatic changes --- Climatology --- Climate change mitigation --- Teleconnections (Climatology) --- Environmental aspects --- Environmental stewardship --- Stewardship, Environmental --- Environmental sciences --- Management --- Aquatic sciences --- Earth sciences --- Hydrography --- Water --- Global environmental change
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Contributing to the growing debate on the need for sustainable water use and management, with concrete examples of new approaches, concepts, arguments, methods and findings which illustrate how this can be achieved, this book will be attractive for large groups of readers familiar with one or more of the themes it tackles, and to the general public. Within this context, the book makes use of many tables and graphics, which bring the many messages together. This approach is intended not only for those working on water matters (e.g. bureaucrats, water managers, policymakers, journalists, etc.) and interested in water management issues and sustainability at large, but also for students of water management, water politics, environmental policy, water economics, water engineering and sustainability studies. Located at the crossroads of two key phenomena: sustainability and water, this book brings forward academic research and discussions on water efficiency, new technologies, and the water-agriculture nexus. It also benefits readers by tackling matters related to trans-boundary cooperation on water (including rainwater) and river-basin management, pricing issues, participatory water management, and the role of women in sustainable water use, amongst others.
Environment. --- Waste Water Technology / Water Pollution Control / Water Management / Aquatic Pollution. --- Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management. --- Energy Policy, Economics and Management. --- Environmental sciences. --- Environmental pollution. --- Sciences de l'environnement --- Water resources development -- Environmental aspects. --- Water resources development. --- Water-supply -- Management. --- Civil & Environmental Engineering --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Environmental Engineering --- Water-supply --- Water resources development --- Management. --- Environmental aspects. --- Energy policy. --- Energy and state. --- Environmental management. --- Water pollution. --- Environmental protection --- Chemical pollution --- Chemicals --- Contamination of environment --- Environmental pollution --- Pollution --- Contamination (Technology) --- Asbestos abatement --- Bioremediation --- Environmental engineering --- Environmental quality --- Factory and trade waste --- Hazardous waste site remediation --- Hazardous wastes --- In situ remediation --- Lead abatement --- Pollutants --- Refuse and refuse disposal --- Environmental aspects --- Energy and state --- Power resources --- State and energy --- Industrial policy --- Energy conservation --- Environmental stewardship --- Stewardship, Environmental --- Environmental sciences --- Management --- Aquatic pollution --- Fresh water --- Fresh water pollution --- Freshwater pollution --- Inland water pollution --- Lake pollution --- Lakes --- Reservoirs --- River pollution --- Rivers --- Stream pollution --- Water contamination --- Water pollutants --- Water pollution --- Waste disposal in rivers, lakes, etc. --- Government policy
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