This article presents the results of a systematic review of international studies on economic
and quality effects of contracting out published in the period from 2000 to 2014. We …

This article reviews methodologies, types, and political implications of water conflicts from a
political ecology perspective. The political ecology of water studies the conflicts on water …

In recent years there has been an exponential growth in the number of publications related
to theory and applications of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). Charnes, Cooper, and …

Increasing industrial water use efficiency is key to achieving sustainable industrial
development. This study employed bootstrap-data envelopment analysis to calculate the …

This paper estimates water use efficiency of 31 provinces in China during 2004–2013 using
slack based measure-data envelopment analysis (SBM-DEA) model which takes …

" The Global South is relatively neglected in research about our" compartmentalised world".
The volume of publications on inequality has increased five-fold since 1992, but many of …

The sustainability of the development of water resources is a pressing challenge. Natural
forces, economic pressure and increasing population determine a significant growth in water …

The assessment of the efficiency of wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) is essential to
compare their performance and consequently to identify the best operational practices that …

State-owned enterprises make up roughly 10 percent of the world economy, yet they are
woefully understudied. This handbook offers the first synthesis of the topic since the 1980s …

The regulation of water companies (WCs) is essential to protect the interests of citizens, as
companies are natural monopolies. Consequently, several methodological approaches are …