Assessing performance in the management of the urban water cycle

Water Policy

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 782-796

  Picazo Tadeo, Andrés J ^a   Sáez Fernández, Francisco J ^b   González Gómez, Francisco ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Data Envelopment Analysis; Directional distance functions; Stage specific technical efficiency; Urban water cycle; Water and sewage utilities

Indexed keywords

EID: 84055200387     PISSN: 13667017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/wp.2011.068     Document Type: Article

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