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Water governance in the Netherlands : fit for the future?

OECD - 2014

This report assesses the extent to which Dutch water governance is fit for future challenges and sketches an agenda for the reform of water policies in the Netherlands. It builds on a one-year policy dialogue with over 100 Dutch stakeholders, supported by robust analytical work and drawing on...

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Unlocking the Key Drivers Behind the Adoption of Adaptive Approaches in Water Utilities : A Design Science Study in Australia and the Netherlands

Ryan, Emily; Aydin, Nazli Yonca; Zatarain Salazar, Jazmin; … - 2023

Emerging qualitative approaches for coping with deep uncertainty in water utilities have gained attention. However, their practical application remains limited. To address this, a Design Science approach was used to interview utility practitioners in the Netherlands and Australia, along with...

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Benchmarking-Konzepte in der Wasserwirtschaft: zwischen betrieblicher Effizienzsteigerung und Regulierungsinstrument : Dokumentation des Symposiums am 28.4.2004 in Frankfurt a. M.

Kluge, Thomas (ed.); Scheele, Ulrich (ed.) - Forschungsverbund NetWORKS - 2004

Das Symposium versammelte Fachleute aus Forschung, Unternehmensberatung, Branchenorganisationen und der betrieblichen Praxis und gab einen umfassenden Überblick über den aktuellen Stand der Benchmarking-Debatte in Deutschland. Im System des Benchmarking versucht man durch Kennzahlenvergleiche,...

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Wettbewerb im Wassermarkt : politische und unternehmerische Herausforderungen in der Wasserwirtschaft

Bardt, Hubertus - 2006

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Policy entrepreneurs in water governance : strategies for change

Brouwer, Stijn - 2015

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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