Latin American trends in urban environmental management

Schuster, Micaela; Edelman, David J.

doi:10.1007/s10098-003-0178-y

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“…Phase I covers the period from 1970, just prior to Habitat I in Vancouver (1976), to 1998, two years after Habitat II in Istanbul (1996). This work has been published in Spanish and English (Schuster and Edelman, 2003). Phase II builds on, modifies and expands the previous work to cover the period from 1998 until 2017.…”

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Urban Environmental Management in Latin America, 1970-2017

Edelman¹,

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Said³

2017

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While Urban Environmental Management has received increasing worldwide attention in the last 50 years, much of the international attention to this growing field has focused, as is the case with most scientific fields, on the English language literature. Nevertheless, much professional work of interest has been taking place in Latin America, where the problems of the urban environment have been identified early and considered major difficulties in the development of this heavily urbanised region. Consequently, the purpose of the research that this article summarises is to address the Spanish and Portuguese language literature written in Latin America on Latin America itself to identify the trends in the field that have emerged, and are continuing to emerge, there and, eventually, to determine what lessons they offer to other regions. KeywordsUrban Environmental Management, Latin America, Cities, Urban Planning, Sustainability, Spanish, Portuguese IntroductionUrban Environmental Management has been receiving increasing attention since 1970 in both developed countries, where it has emerged as a subject of academic research and professional interest, and in developing countries, where it has become increasingly an area of donor concern as well. As a field, it is more like planning or engineering rather than geography, economics or sociology; and it represents an integrated view of environmental problems at city, and increasingly, regional level. Such problems are multi-sectoral (e.g., manufacturing, services, household, etc.), multi-system (e.g., water supply, sanitation, transport,

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Urban Environmental Management in Latin America, 1970-2017

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2017

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“…Colombia, Argentina, Brazil or Portugal water industry was privatised and regulated and therefore water management and efficiency became subjects of utmost importance for researchers and decision-makers (Schuster and Edelman, 2003;Estache and Trujillo, 2003;Marques, 2008;Marques et al, 2011;Molinos-Senante et al, 2014a). In this context, benchmarking and TFP analysis in particular are essential since they allow to monitoring activity firms, i.e., assessing how the firm is doing over time and to comparing firm performance with respect of its main competitors (Epure et al, 2011).…”

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Profit, productivity and price performance changes in the water and sewerage industry: an empirical application for England and Wales

Maziotis

Saal

Thanassoulis

et al. 2014

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This paper aims to analyse the impact of regulation in the financial performance of the Water and Sewerage companies (WaSCs) in England and Wales over the period 1991-2008. In doing so a panel index approach is applied across WaSCs over time to decompose unit-specific index number based profitability growth as a function of the profitability, productivity and price performance growth achieved by benchmark firms, and the catch-up to the benchmark firm achieved by less productive firms. The results indicated that after 2000 there is a steady decline in average price performance while productivity improves resulting in a relatively stable economic profitability. It is suggested that the English and Welsh water regulator is now more focused on passing productivity benefits to consumers, and maintaining stable profitability than it was in earlier regulatory periods. This technique is of great interest for regulators to evaluate the effectiveness of regulation and companies to identify the determinants of profit change and improve future performance, even if sample sizes are limited.

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