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Corporate Social Responsibility in the Water Industry Sector
Rodek Berkes, Nora; Birkner, Zoltán; Máhr, Tivadar - 2017
Corporate social responsibility is an important means of achieving sustainability. More and more companies recognize the fact that responsible operation has a number of results that supports sustainability and thereby the long-term competitiveness. The United Nations' Sustainable Development...
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Local Government Control and Efficiency of the Water Industry: An Empirical Analysis of Water Suppliers in East Germany
Haug, Peter - 2007
The paper deals with the effects of local governments' interference with business affairs of publicly owned utilities. A partial model is presented to illustrate the consequences of "democratic control" for the public managers' effort and the efficiency of local public production. To check the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269922
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Nachhaltige Wasserwirtschaft durch Synergie - mögliche Kooperationen bei der Wasserver- und Entsorgung: Eine theoretische und empirische Untersuchung der Wasserversorgungsunternehm...
Ludin, Daniela; Rahmeyer, Fritz; Wörner, Daniela - 2001
Hintergrund einer nachhaltigen Wasserwirtschaft den Verbrauchern finanzielle Anreize bieten, Wasser zu sparen. Das innerhalb der …, um mehr Effizienz und Effektivität im Sinne einer nachhaltigen Wasserwirtschaft zu erreichen. Die Kooperation erfolgt … dabei freiwillig zwischen den agierenden Einheiten in der Wasserwirtschaft und zwar unabhängig von deren Größe oder …
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Private sector participation in African infrastructure: Is it worth the risk?
Bayliss, Kate - 2009
Policies to promote privatisation in developing-country infrastructure gained momentum in the early 1990s as donors grew increasingly frustrated with efforts to strengthen public sector services that continued to fail. The strategy was intended to bring both finance and efficiency to ailing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293286
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Output quality and sources of profit change in the English and welsh water and sewerage companies
Maziotis, Alexandros; Saal, David S.; Thanassoulis, Emmanuel - 2012
This paper investigates the determinants of profit change over the period 1991-2008 for the Water and Sewerage Companies (WaSCs) in the English and Welsh water and sewerage industry. We firstly apply an input oriented profit decomposition approach following the approach of De Witte & Saal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294274
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Profit, productivity and price performance changes in the English and welsh water and sewerage companies
Maziotis, Alexandros; Saal, David S.; Thanassoulis, Emmanuel - 2012
The purpose of this paper is to assess the impact of regulation in the financial performance of the Water and Sewerage companies (WaSCs) in England and Wales. We apply a panel index approach across WaSCs over time to decompose unit-specific (temporal) index number based profitability growth as a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294297
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The economics of adaptation to climate change: the case of Germany
Dannenberg, Astrid; Mennel, Tim; Osberghaus, Daniel; … - 2009
Given the ubiquitous scarcity of resources an economic approach is necessary in order to determine an optimal strategy of adaptation to climate change. In this paper we develop an economic framework for the study of adaptation which allows us to distinguish between decentralized adaptation by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299185
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Wettbewerb in der Wasserwirtschaft
Schwarze, Reimund - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 81 (2001) 7, pp. 395-399
Nach den Versorgungsbereichen Telekommunikation, Strom und Gas steht die Liberalisierung der Wasserwirtschaft auf der …
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Die Analyse der Materialintensität von Infrastrukturen zur Unterstützung eines integrierten Ressourcenmanagements
Bringezu, Stefan - 2000
Die Wirkungen von Stoffströmen sind abhängig von der umgesetzten Menge und denspezifischen Auswirkungen pro Mengeneinheit. Die Menge der Extraktion an Primärmaterialaus der Umwelt kann als vorsorgeorientierter Indikator für ein unspezifisches Umweltbelastungspotential herangezogen werden....
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Incentive scheme based on investment plan compliance for public water utilities in Peru
Larrauri, Iván M. Lucich - 2012
Using the budget-based scheme approach developed by Kirby et.al. (1991) and Reichelstein (1992), this paper establishes the optimal policy function in order to control hidden actions from managers of Public Water Utilities (PWU) regarding investments that deviate from the Optimized Business Plan...
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