This discussion paper presents the Integrated Methodological Approach for participatory multi-criteria decision support under uncertainty (IMA), which emerged from the debates about participation, multi-criteria analysis (MCA) and benefit-cost analysis (BCA). It provides a framework for...

The Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA) has long been serving as an important instrument of decision-making of large development projects. The Social Cost-Benefit Analysis (SCBA) extends this to include the distributional impacts of projects. However, both CBA and SCBA received the criticism of major...

In an article which appeared in this review, we have presented a statistical analysis of the relationship between water use restrictions and urban water use in Perth, Western Australia. The results of our study allow us to predict probable water use with and without water use restrictions. The...

Household water insecurity harms quality of life outcomes beyond health, for example the disutility of worrying about water availability or anger at disrupted plans. However, these outcomes are excluded from cost-benefit analyses of water supply interventions, which typically measure and value...

This paper argues that there are many challenges to designing and implementing water and sanitation interventions that actually deliver economic benefits to the households in developing countries. Perhaps most critical to successful water and sanitation investments is to discover and implement...