Based on empirical evidence, the article looks at the implications of private sector participation (PSP) for the delivery of water supply and sanitation to the urban and peri-urban poor in developing countries, with particular reference to Africa and Latin America. More precisely, the article...

The Waste Strategy 2000 for England and Wales focused upon the increasing necessity to minimise the volumes of waste we produce from industrial, commercial and domestic sources in order to reduce environmental impacts through better management of our valuable, but ever-shrinking, resources. The...

The authors took part in an independent review of competition and innovation in the water industry in England and Wales, undertaken for United Kingdom and Welsh government ministers. Privatised twenty years ago, subject to a price control regime which has permitted high levels of investment, and...

The paper, “Towards Corporate Social Responsibility: The Pulp and Paper Industry in Lebanon,” by Toufic Mezher, Mutasem El-Fadel, Wajih Farkouf, from the American University of Beirut, Lebanon, focuses on the pulp and paper industry of Lebanon. This industry happens to be one of the most...

A preferred methodology for handling increasing customer demands and the resulting complexity is to design common modules or subsystems. The design of all the modules required by a complex system, such as a car, aeroplane or computer, is increasingly a task beyond the organisational resources of...

Based on empirical evidence, this paper looks at experience with privatized water supply and sanitation concessions and operating contracts in transition and developing countries, with particular reference to Latin America. The paper is an attempt to address the complexity of issues affecting...

The article examines the expansion of private water companies since 1989 the withdrawal from developing countries from 2003 onwards, and the economic impact of privatisation. The analysis is set in the context of the historical development of water services in the north and the south, showing...

There is an increasing emphasis on the importance of innovation for the longterm economic success of businesses. At the same time the construction industry is characterized as being a poor innovator in comparison to other industries. If the university sector is to play a role in increasing...

Climate change due to greenhouse gas emissions has been at the forefront of current research efforts in the past decade. The aim of these efforts was defined at the earth summit in Rio de Janeiro as achieving “stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that...

This paper proposes and applies a combined stated preference approach in order to estimate residential location choice behaviour in Oxfordshire, UK. The estimation results demonstrate the potentials for the combined estimation of two stated preference experiments. Our findings show that the...