Consumer-inclusive economic regulation: Water pricing under different regulatory regimes

Water Policy

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 459-470

  Sanz, María Pascual ^a   Schouten, Marco ^b   Hantke Domas, Michael ^c  

^a Vitens Evides International   (Netherlands)

^b UNESCO IHE INSTITUTE FOR WATER EDUCATION   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accountability; Economic regulation; Governance; Participation; Tariff setting; Transparency

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051517029     PISSN: 13667017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/wp.2011.126     Document Type: Review

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