The business of water and sustainable development / / edited by Jonathan Chenoweth, Juliet Bird

• Autore: Chenoweth Jonathan
• Pubblicazione: London : , : Routledge, , 2018
• Edizione: 1st
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (277 p.)
• Disciplina: 658.4080218
• Soggetto topico: Water-supply; Sanitation; Sustainable development
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Persona (resp. second.): ChenowethJonathan; BirdJuliet
• Note generali: Previously issued in print: Sheffield: Greenleaf, 2005.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Incorporating demand-side information into water utility operations and planning -- The price of water Separating the natural form the optimal in water supply : ensuring the broadest community access to safe water -- Balancing the cost implications and benefits of compliance with advanced risk analysis -- Environmental management with the balanced scorecard : a case study of Berlin Water Company, Germany -- The private sector and service extension -- Private-sector participation in water and sanitization reviewed : insights from new institutional economics -- Ownership and performance of water utilities. ; The involvement of the private sector in water servicing : effects on the urban poor in the case of Aguascalientes, Mexico -- Joint-use municipal-industrial infrastructure : an innovative approach to expanding urban water services in the developing world -- Autonomous water supply of a remote island community : the case of geothermal water desalination on Milos, Greece -- Ecological sanitation : reaching for the MDGs -- A measured step towards sustainability for rural water supply : one metering strategy that works -- Sustainable water supply for a remote rural community of Mozambique : Oxfam Australia and the Chicomo Rural Development Project -- Indigenous people, women and water : the importance of local knowledge for project planning in an African context . ; The commitment of the chlorine industry to sustainable societies : a partnership case study in Guatemala -- Water-pricing policies and the Water Framework Directive 2000/60/EC : a first approach concerning the agricultural sector in the Axios River Basin -- Reducing water and sanitation backlogs in rural areas : Umgeni Water’s response as an implementing agent within KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa -- The demand-side versus the supply-side approach : the case for sustainable management of water supply in developing countries -- Water supply in Singapore : challenges and choices.
• Sommario/riassunto: This title examines the role of privatization, technology and multi-sectoral partnerships to provide answers to one of the most pressing environmental and social problems of the twenty-first century - how to provide access to safe drinking water and adequate sanitation for some 2 billion of the world's poor in the next 15 years.
• Titolo autorizzato: The business of water and sustainable development
• ISBN: 1-351-28267-0; 1-351-28268-9; 1-78353-206-8; 1-909493-53-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910452945903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II