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Research paper thumbnail of A comparison of online and in-store grocery shopping behaviour and its effects on household food waste

Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Sep 1, 2023

Research paper thumbnail of Machine learning for characterizing growth in tourism employment in developing economies: an assessment of tourism employment in Sri Lanka

Current Issues in Tourism, Oct 27, 2021

Research paper thumbnail of Evaluating the Performance of Urban Water Utilities: Robust Nonparametric Approach

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.

Research paper thumbnail of Ownership, Productivity Change in the Australian Urban Water Sector: a Bootstrap Malmquist indices approach

RePEc: Research Papers in Economics, Oct 1, 2013

Research paper thumbnail of Challenges for food waste reduction campaigns: requirements for Asian consumers in Australia

Australasian Journal of Environmental Management, Oct 2, 2022

Research paper thumbnail of Customer‐centric regulation: The case of Victorian urban water sector

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.

Research paper thumbnail of Assessing the operational efficiency of wastewater services whilst accounting for data uncertainty and service quality: a semi-parametric approach

Water International, Jul 20, 2020

Research paper thumbnail of A Preliminary Assessment of Water Institutions in India: An Institutional Design Perspective

Review of Policy Research, Jul 1, 2006

Research paper thumbnail of Explaining the environmental efficiency of drinking water and wastewater utilities

Sustainable Production and Consumption, 2019

Research paper thumbnail of Implementing Participatory Decision Making in Forest Planning

Environmental Management, Feb 1, 2007

Research paper thumbnail of Transitioning to Low-carbon Drinking Water and Sanitation Services: An Assessment of Emission and Real Water Losses Efficiency of Water Utilities

Research paper thumbnail of Institutional Design Perspective, Capacity Constraints and Participatory Irrigation Management in South Asia

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.

Research paper thumbnail of Identifying interventions to reduce household food waste based on food categories

Research paper thumbnail of Implementing participatory approaches in formulating regional forest policy

International Journal of Sustainable Development, 2004

Research paper thumbnail of The role of experimentation in water management under climate uncertainty: Institutional barriers to social learning

Environmental Policy and Governance, Apr 27, 2020

Research paper thumbnail of Productivity implications of the water-energy-emissions nexus: An empirical analysis of the drinking water and wastewater sector

Journal of Cleaner Production, Sep 1, 2018

Research paper thumbnail of Stakeholder Incentives in Participatory Forest Management: A Manual for Economic Analysis

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 ...

Research paper thumbnail of Benchmarking service quality in the urban water industry

Journal of Productivity Analysis, Feb 1, 2019

Research paper thumbnail of A Circular Economy Approach to Food Security and Poverty: a Case Study in Food Rescue in Sri Lanka

Circular Economy and Sustainability, Feb 17, 2023

Research paper thumbnail of Curriculum Design For Flexible Delivery: An Assessment of e-Learning Approaches

Research paper thumbnail of A comparison of online and in-store grocery shopping behaviour and its effects on household food waste

Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Sep 1, 2023

Research paper thumbnail of Machine learning for characterizing growth in tourism employment in developing economies: an assessment of tourism employment in Sri Lanka

Current Issues in Tourism, Oct 27, 2021

Research paper thumbnail of Evaluating the Performance of Urban Water Utilities: Robust Nonparametric Approach

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.

Research paper thumbnail of Ownership, Productivity Change in the Australian Urban Water Sector: a Bootstrap Malmquist indices approach

RePEc: Research Papers in Economics, Oct 1, 2013

Research paper thumbnail of Challenges for food waste reduction campaigns: requirements for Asian consumers in Australia

Australasian Journal of Environmental Management, Oct 2, 2022

Research paper thumbnail of Customer‐centric regulation: The case of Victorian urban water sector

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.

Research paper thumbnail of Assessing the operational efficiency of wastewater services whilst accounting for data uncertainty and service quality: a semi-parametric approach

Water International, Jul 20, 2020

Research paper thumbnail of A Preliminary Assessment of Water Institutions in India: An Institutional Design Perspective

Review of Policy Research, Jul 1, 2006

Research paper thumbnail of Explaining the environmental efficiency of drinking water and wastewater utilities

Sustainable Production and Consumption, 2019

Research paper thumbnail of Implementing Participatory Decision Making in Forest Planning

Environmental Management, Feb 1, 2007

Research paper thumbnail of Transitioning to Low-carbon Drinking Water and Sanitation Services: An Assessment of Emission and Real Water Losses Efficiency of Water Utilities

Research paper thumbnail of Institutional Design Perspective, Capacity Constraints and Participatory Irrigation Management in South Asia

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.

Research paper thumbnail of Identifying interventions to reduce household food waste based on food categories

Research paper thumbnail of Implementing participatory approaches in formulating regional forest policy

International Journal of Sustainable Development, 2004

Research paper thumbnail of The role of experimentation in water management under climate uncertainty: Institutional barriers to social learning

Environmental Policy and Governance, Apr 27, 2020

Research paper thumbnail of Productivity implications of the water-energy-emissions nexus: An empirical analysis of the drinking water and wastewater sector

Journal of Cleaner Production, Sep 1, 2018

Research paper thumbnail of Stakeholder Incentives in Participatory Forest Management: A Manual for Economic Analysis

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 ...

Research paper thumbnail of Benchmarking service quality in the urban water industry

Journal of Productivity Analysis, Feb 1, 2019

Research paper thumbnail of A Circular Economy Approach to Food Security and Poverty: a Case Study in Food Rescue in Sri Lanka

Circular Economy and Sustainability, Feb 17, 2023

Research paper thumbnail of Curriculum Design For Flexible Delivery: An Assessment of e-Learning Approaches