The objective of this research is to understand underlying motivations which impacted business owners to make environmentally responsible choices for their business. Some of the business owners started their business due to core environmental beliefs while others reformed their businesses while...

The objective of this research is to understand underlying motivations which impacted business owners to make environmentally responsible choices for their business. Some of the business owners started their business due to core environmental beliefs while others reformed their businesses while...

The purpose of this study was to both see the effects of wastewater on profitability as well as determine an efficient way of dealing with that wastewater. In addition to finding the most efficient way of treating wastewater, the cost of implementing such a technology was also discussed. Two...

Factors such as rapidly growing population in metropolitan areas, stricter government regulations in wastewater infrastructure management, wastewater infrastructure assets nearing the end of its design life, along with limited budgets for maintenance and rehabilitation, are constantly...

Valuation of infrastructure assets has drawn close attention in the U.S. since the Governmental Accounting Standards Board Statement 34 (GASB 34) was issued in 1999. GASB 34 recommends two valuation methods: the depreciation method and the modified approach. The depreciation method estimates the...

This study develops a decision-making framework for large combined sewer management to assist asset managers in decision-making regarding sewer maintenance and rehabilitation plans under constraints of limited access to sewer condition data. Traditionally, municipalities have addressed this...

Water managers increasingly are faced with the challenge of building public or stakeholder support for resource management strategies. Building support requires raising stakeholder awareness of resource problems and understanding about the consequences of different policy options. One approach...

Within the globalizing world, regions and their identities are subjected to greatpressure. At present, places are engaged in a process of “territorial competition” inan integrated world economy. The identity of the region can be used as a startingpoint to brand a region and differentiate it...

The objective of this paper is to deeply analyze some of the theoretical andmethodological implications linked to the definition, the characterization, theevaluation and the estimation of the economic results of a multifunction agriculturalfarm. A deep study of these aspects seems essential for...