In recent years, the development of domain-specific modelling languages has gained remarkable attention. This is for good reasons: A domain-specific modelling language incorporates concepts that represent domain-level knowledge. Hence, systems analysts are not forced to reconstruct these...

The aim of this paper is to check whether intergovernmental transfers for water projects accepted in 1986 can be rationalized by a simple efficiency criterion. The empirical Þndings support this conjecture only partially.

This work illustrates the preliminary findings of a participatory research process aimed at identifying responses for sustainable water management in a climate change perspective, in two river basins in Europe and Asia. The paper describes the methodology implemented through local workshops,...

Die Entwicklung in den meisten großen europäischen Hafenstädten ist von 2 komplementären Prozessen geprägt: Die Häfen verlagern sich zunehmend flussabwärts an das seeschifftiefe Wasser nahe den Küsten. Große ehemalige Hafengebiete im Innern der Städte werden dabei verlassen. Die...

Access to safe water is necessary for lives and livelihoods. In India, a mid-term assessment reveals that the country has already met its MDG (Millennium Development Goal) in terms of expanding access to water infrastructure although in the parallel subsector of sanitation progress is falling...

[Introduction ...] This paper examines the conditions of access to water in the slums of the developing world. It has three goals. The first is to identify the objective and policy-related challenges that hinder progress in the provision of safe, affordable, continuous and easy access to water...

This paper investigates the concentration of access to safe water across income levels in Bolivia. In particular, it focuses on how privatisation has changed coverage, affordability and the concentration of access to water on the part of the poor. We compare the performance of cities in which...

Uno de los sectores más favorecidos por la inversión pública, en el periodo, 1995-2001 ha sido saneamiento básico. Los volúmenes invertidos y el número de sistemas instalados permitieron un notable incremento de la cobertura en este servicio básico en el área rural y urbana del país. La...