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Water, Politics and Money : A Reality Check on Privatization
Schiffler, Manuel - 2015
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,...
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Price Regulation and Risk : The Impact of Regulation System Shifts on Risk Components
Hierzenberger, Michael - 2010
Capital Market-Based Calculation of the Cost of Equity -- Methods of Price Regulation -- Empirical Secondary Data … important to consider a possible change in the regulation regime when the future-oriented costs of equity - both in terms of … price regulation and for conducting capital market-oriented business valuations - are to be determined. Based on the …
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Energy Branding : Harnessing Consumer Power
Larsen, Friðrik - 2017
‘An in-depth examination of the modern energy consumer that represents a landmark step forward in energy branding and marketing.’ -Kevin Lane Keller, E. B. Osborn Professor of Marketing, Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, USA ‘Fridrik offers a unique approach to create value for...
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Electricity Market Reform in Norway
Magnus, Eivind (ed.); Midttun, Atle (ed.) - 2000
Norwegian deregulation was, together with the British, a pioneer forerunner in the restructuring of European electricity industry. The Norwegian and British model both had their distinct features: the British was based on privatisation, structural change and gradual opening up of the market. The...
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Adaptive Water Management : Concepts, Principles and Applications for Sustainable Development
Delavari Edalat, Farideh; Abdi, M. Reza - 2018
This book explores a new framework of Adaptive Water Management (AWM) for evaluating existing approaches in urban water management. It highlights the need to adopt multidisciplinary strategies in water management while providing an in-depth understanding of institutional interactions amongst...
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Policy Entrepreneurs in Water Governance : Strategies for Change
Brouwer, Stijn - 2015
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....
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The Water-Food-Energy Nexus in the Mekong Region : Assessing Development Strategies Considering Cross-Sectoral and Transboundary Impacts
Smajgl, Alexander - 2013
This book provides a cross-sectoral, multi-scale assessment of development-directed investments in the wider Mekong Region. The wider Mekong Region includes Lao PDR, Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam, Myanmar and the Chinese Province of Yunnan. This book gives important insight into how future...
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Water Resources and Food Security in the Vietnam Mekong Delta
Cosslett, Tuyet L. - 2014
Introduction -- PART I -- Mekong Delta Water Resources and Food Security -- Mekong Delta of Vietnam. Water resources for rice culture and aquaculture -- Major threats to the Mekong Delta -- PART II -- Mekong River Regional Cooperation -- The Mekong Project -- The Mekong Committee (1957-1975) --...
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Hydropower Economics
Førsund, Finn R. - 2015 - 2nd ed. 2015
Introduction -- Water as a Natural Resource -- Hydropower with Constraints -- Multiple Producers -- Mix of Thermal and Hydropower Plants -- Trade -- Intermittent Energy -- Pumped-storage Hydroelectricity -- Uncertainty -- Transmission -- Market Power -- Summary and Conclusions.
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Frontiers in Water Resource Economics
Goetz, Renan (contributor); Berga, Dolors (contributor) - 2006
Focuses on methodological advances within the field of water resource economics and shows how these advances can be applied to the economics of water issues. This book identifies five areas of particular importance - asymmetric information and game theory, uncertainty, space, water quality, and...
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