Governance of water supply systems in the Palestinian Territories: A data envelopment analysis approach to the management of water resources

Journal of Environmental Management

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 80-94

  Alsharif, Kamal ^a   Feroz, Ehsan H ^b   Klemer, Andrew ^a   Raab, Raymond ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DULUTH   (United States)

^b University of Washington Tacoma   (United States)

^c Department of Economics   (United States)

Author keywords

Data envelopment analysis; Governance of Palestinian Territories; Water management benchmarks; Water use efficiency

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; MODELING; PLANNING METHOD; POLICY MAKING; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER PLANNING; WATER SUPPLY; WATER USE EFFICIENCY;

ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; PALESTINE; STANDARDIZATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER SUPPLY;

ASIA; EURASIA; MIDDLE EAST; PALESTINE;

EID: 38549148810     PISSN: 03014797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2007.01.008     Document Type: Article

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