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Autore: | Chenoweth Jonathan |
Titolo: | The business of water and sustainable development / / edited by Jonathan Chenoweth, Juliet Bird |
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 |
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