New directions in water economics, finance and statistics

Water Science and Technology: Water Supply

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1-15

  Tsagarakis, K P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Benchmarking; Efficiency; Full cost recovery; Water demand; Water policy; Water valuation

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; COSTS; DECISION MAKING; WATER ANALYSIS;

FULL COST RECOVERY;

WATER SUPPLY SYSTEMS;

BENCHMARKING; COSTS; DECISION MAKING; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER SUPPLY SYSTEMS;

PRICING POLICY; WATER DEMAND; WATER ECONOMICS; WATER PLANNING;

CONFERENCE PAPER; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; ECONOMICS; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FINANCE; PERFORMANCE; POLICY; QUALITY CONTROL; STATISTICS; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 31344453735     PISSN: 16069749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/ws.2005.0046     Document Type: Conference Paper

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