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Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Sep 1, 2023
Current Issues in Tourism, Oct 27, 2021
Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, Sep 1, 2014
ABSTRACT This paper empirically analyses the efficiency of urban water utilities using state-of-t... more ABSTRACT This paper empirically analyses the efficiency of urban water utilities using state-of-the-art methodology combining Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and a two-stage double bootstrap procedure. In the first stage, robust efficiency estimates are obtained with an improved DEA analysis. In the second stage, a truncated regression model and a double bootstrap procedure are used to estimate the effect of a set of environmental variables on unbiased DEA estimates. The findings suggest that the efficiency scores obtained after bias correction are significantly different to the original efficiency estimates. The results also show the existence of a significant relation between efficiency and several environmental variables including the proportion of water sourced from groundwater, customer density and residential consumption.
RePEc: Research Papers in Economics, Oct 1, 2013
Australasian Journal of Environmental Management, Oct 2, 2022
Regulation & Governance, Oct 18, 2020
The growing interest in customer engagement (CE) has triggered a new wave of reforms, particularl... more The growing interest in customer engagement (CE) has triggered a new wave of reforms, particularly in utility regulation. Within the water sector, there has been a shift from a focus on cost‐reflective pricing toward customer‐centric pricing processes designed to identify customer preferences and expectations. The Victorian water sector in Australia offers a unique opportunity to explore the outcomes of these CE trends given the recent first‐time application of a novel Performance, Risk, Engagement, Management, and Outcomes (PREMO) framework. Based on in‐depth interviews with senior industry representatives from a diverse sample of Victorian water utilities, this paper critically analyses the scope, design, and incentive mechanisms that underpin the new regulatory process. Findings indicate that CE has potentially beneficial aspects to both the regulator and the regulated utility, including more transparency in capital projects and a better understanding of customer preferences in service delivery.
Water International, Jul 20, 2020
Review of Policy Research, Jul 1, 2006
Sustainable Production and Consumption, 2019
Environmental Management, Feb 1, 2007
ABSTRACT Water institutions in South Asia play a crucial role in managing scarce water resources ... more ABSTRACT Water institutions in South Asia play a crucial role in managing scarce water resources and are central to economic development and poverty alleviation. Designing appropriate institutional mechanisms to allocate scarce water and river flows has been an enormous challenge due to the complex legal, constitutional and social issues involved. Notwithstanding the progress in water reforms, particularly Participatory Irrigation Management (PIM), many South Asian countries have been grappling with poor performance in the water sector and deterioration of canal and tank irrigation systems, high extraction levels of groundwater and related economic and environmental problems. This paper assesses the institutional arrangements of PIM in South Asia using a set of generic institutional design principles and examines the reasons for the poor performance of irrigation management transfer. The findings indicate that traditional ‘farmer-managed’ irrigation systems have a significantly different set of institutional features compared to large-scale irrigation institutions established under PIM. These farmer-managed systems are generally highly adaptive to environmental changes, high in compliance capacity and interconnect well with informal institutions such as social norms and customs. On the implementation side, one of the core barriers to PIM in South Asia has been the capacity constraints including technical and information capacities of the existing water user associations. The up-scaling of PIM initiatives has also been problematic due to ill-conceived institutional design and poor institutional linkages. The irrigation management turnover has been seen as shifting the burden of rehabilitating and managing the rundown irrigation infrastructure to the lowest level rather than a genuine transfer of management and/or property rights. Reconfiguring the institutional design for PIM requires a greater understanding of socio-political relationships, appropriate spatial and administrative scales and process-based long term learning.
International Journal of Sustainable Development, 2004
Environmental Policy and Governance, Apr 27, 2020
Journal of Cleaner Production, Sep 1, 2018
Ecological Economics, Sep 1, 2004
Traité de viticulture de terroir : comprendre & cultiver la vigne pour produire un vi... more Traité de viticulture de terroir : comprendre & cultiver la vigne pour produire un vin de terroir Rassemblant pour la première fois tous les fondements d'une viticulture durable, ce Traité de viticulture de terroir synthétise près de 40 années d'expérimentation en agronomie des terroirs viticoles ...
Journal of Productivity Analysis, Feb 1, 2019
Circular Economy and Sustainability, Feb 17, 2023
Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Sep 1, 2023
Current Issues in Tourism, Oct 27, 2021
Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, Sep 1, 2014
ABSTRACT This paper empirically analyses the efficiency of urban water utilities using state-of-t... more ABSTRACT This paper empirically analyses the efficiency of urban water utilities using state-of-the-art methodology combining Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and a two-stage double bootstrap procedure. In the first stage, robust efficiency estimates are obtained with an improved DEA analysis. In the second stage, a truncated regression model and a double bootstrap procedure are used to estimate the effect of a set of environmental variables on unbiased DEA estimates. The findings suggest that the efficiency scores obtained after bias correction are significantly different to the original efficiency estimates. The results also show the existence of a significant relation between efficiency and several environmental variables including the proportion of water sourced from groundwater, customer density and residential consumption.
RePEc: Research Papers in Economics, Oct 1, 2013
Australasian Journal of Environmental Management, Oct 2, 2022
Regulation & Governance, Oct 18, 2020
The growing interest in customer engagement (CE) has triggered a new wave of reforms, particularl... more The growing interest in customer engagement (CE) has triggered a new wave of reforms, particularly in utility regulation. Within the water sector, there has been a shift from a focus on cost‐reflective pricing toward customer‐centric pricing processes designed to identify customer preferences and expectations. The Victorian water sector in Australia offers a unique opportunity to explore the outcomes of these CE trends given the recent first‐time application of a novel Performance, Risk, Engagement, Management, and Outcomes (PREMO) framework. Based on in‐depth interviews with senior industry representatives from a diverse sample of Victorian water utilities, this paper critically analyses the scope, design, and incentive mechanisms that underpin the new regulatory process. Findings indicate that CE has potentially beneficial aspects to both the regulator and the regulated utility, including more transparency in capital projects and a better understanding of customer preferences in service delivery.
Water International, Jul 20, 2020
Review of Policy Research, Jul 1, 2006
Sustainable Production and Consumption, 2019
Environmental Management, Feb 1, 2007
ABSTRACT Water institutions in South Asia play a crucial role in managing scarce water resources ... more ABSTRACT Water institutions in South Asia play a crucial role in managing scarce water resources and are central to economic development and poverty alleviation. Designing appropriate institutional mechanisms to allocate scarce water and river flows has been an enormous challenge due to the complex legal, constitutional and social issues involved. Notwithstanding the progress in water reforms, particularly Participatory Irrigation Management (PIM), many South Asian countries have been grappling with poor performance in the water sector and deterioration of canal and tank irrigation systems, high extraction levels of groundwater and related economic and environmental problems. This paper assesses the institutional arrangements of PIM in South Asia using a set of generic institutional design principles and examines the reasons for the poor performance of irrigation management transfer. The findings indicate that traditional ‘farmer-managed’ irrigation systems have a significantly different set of institutional features compared to large-scale irrigation institutions established under PIM. These farmer-managed systems are generally highly adaptive to environmental changes, high in compliance capacity and interconnect well with informal institutions such as social norms and customs. On the implementation side, one of the core barriers to PIM in South Asia has been the capacity constraints including technical and information capacities of the existing water user associations. The up-scaling of PIM initiatives has also been problematic due to ill-conceived institutional design and poor institutional linkages. The irrigation management turnover has been seen as shifting the burden of rehabilitating and managing the rundown irrigation infrastructure to the lowest level rather than a genuine transfer of management and/or property rights. Reconfiguring the institutional design for PIM requires a greater understanding of socio-political relationships, appropriate spatial and administrative scales and process-based long term learning.
International Journal of Sustainable Development, 2004
Environmental Policy and Governance, Apr 27, 2020
Journal of Cleaner Production, Sep 1, 2018
Ecological Economics, Sep 1, 2004
Traité de viticulture de terroir : comprendre & cultiver la vigne pour produire un vi... more Traité de viticulture de terroir : comprendre & cultiver la vigne pour produire un vin de terroir Rassemblant pour la première fois tous les fondements d'une viticulture durable, ce Traité de viticulture de terroir synthétise près de 40 années d'expérimentation en agronomie des terroirs viticoles ...
Journal of Productivity Analysis, Feb 1, 2019
Circular Economy and Sustainability, Feb 17, 2023