30 Years of technical and organisational development in the UK water sector: Thames Water's experiences of moving from public to private sector

2007 ◽  
Vol 56 (6-7) ◽  
pp. 419-423 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tony Rachwal
Keyword(s):  
Private Sector ◽  
Organisational Development ◽  
Water Sector ◽  
The Uk

Benchmarking Risk Analysis Practice in the International Water Sector

2006 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
B.H. MacGillivray ◽  
P.D. Hamilton ◽  
S.E. Hrudey ◽  
L. Reekie ◽  
S.J.T Pollard
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Risk Analysis ◽  
Water Utilities ◽  
Water Sector ◽  
Water Utility ◽  
Analysis Techniques ◽  
The Usa ◽  
International Water ◽  
Practical Guidance ◽  
The Uk

Risk analysis in the water utility sector is fast becoming explicit. Here, we describe application of a capability model to benchmark the risk analysis maturity of a sub-sample of eight water utilities from the USA, the UK and Australia. Our analysis codifies risk analysis practice and offers practical guidance as to how utilities may more effectively employ their portfolio of risk analysis techniques for optimal, credible, and defensible decision making.

The Asymmetric Effects of Regional House Prices in the UK: New Evidence from Panel Quantile Regression Framework

2021 ◽  
pp. 232102222098054
Author(s):  
Panayiotis Tzeremes
Keyword(s):  
Private Sector ◽  
Quantile Regression ◽  
House Prices ◽  
Ripple Effect ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Housing Starts ◽  
Panel Quantile Regression ◽  
Linear Behaviour ◽  
Significant Performance ◽  
The Uk

This study unfurls the non-linear behaviour of regional house prices in the United Kingdom by employing quarterly observations spanning the period 1992Q1–2017Q4. Our enquiry aims at examining UK house prices within a multivariable framework and, more specifically, by employing panel quantile regression with fixed effect. In brief, the empirical findings obtained from these methodologies indicate that the UK house prices are influenced at lower and upper quantiles, and that precisely they are influenced by variables such as income, private sector housing starts and employment. We highly support that there is a strong heterogeneity among UK regions and that asymmetry may be one of the keys of the ripple effect. Particularly, the income shows a positively significant performance at lower and higher regional house prices. Moreover, the variables private sector housing starts and employment rate are statistically significant for house prices. Leveraging for first-time panel quantile regression for the case of regional house prices in the UK, policymakers will have a profound understanding of regional house prices. JEL Classifications: C22, R21, R31

scholarly journals COVID‐19 and the UK water sector: Exploring organisational responses through a resilience framework

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Lawson ◽  
Sarah Bunney ◽  
Sarah Cotterill ◽  
Raziyeh Farmani ◽  
Peter Melville‐Shreeve ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Water Sector ◽  
Resilience Framework ◽  
The Uk

Transitioning towards low carbon solidarity economies?

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter North
Keyword(s):  
Private Sector ◽  
Social Enterprise ◽  
Social Economy ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
The Public ◽  
Diverse Economies ◽  
The Social ◽  
Global North ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Socially Excluded

Building on the diverse economies perspective of JK Gibson-Graham, this chapter discusses how conceptions of just and sustainable economies in the context of the Anthropocene can be generated and, more importantly, performed through social and solidarity economies in the global North. It reviews concepts of the SSE in the global North, and discusses the extent that the UK social economy sector has been tamed and neoliberalised as more antagonistic conceptions of co-operative and grassroots economies created by green and socialist activists in the 1970s and 1980s have been transformed into neoliberal conceptions of social enterprise, with an inbuilt assumption that the private sector is more effective than the public. It discusses how in conditions of austerity social enterprise can legitimate the abandonment of socially excluded communities, and that to counter this, the social economy sector in the UK should develop more antagonistic perspectives, learning from Latin Americans. Finally, it discusses the contribution of Transition Initiatives in rekindling conceptions of grassroots sustainable economies.

The BEST of British

1989 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 107-111
Author(s):  
Michael T. Tobert
Keyword(s):  
Private Sector ◽  
Research Community ◽  
The World ◽  
Two Factors ◽  
The Uk

The UK, as far as we can discover, is currently the only country in the world that has an expertise database for its research community. It is one of the few countries that entrusts this sort of development to the private sector. I would like to look at how this has come about, comment on two factors that I think have influenced the outcome - namely size and quality - say something about who uses the database and where it is all leading.

Re-Balancing the Roles of Public and Private Health Sectors in Wales

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 29-43
Author(s):  
Malcolm John Prowle
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Public Policy ◽  
Northern Ireland ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Health Care Provision ◽  
Care Provision ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Health Budget ◽  
The Uk

In 1989 the UK implemented a form of political devolution to Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland such that certain public policy areas, including health, became the responsibility of devolved Parliament or Assemblies and not the London based Parliament and Government. In the case of Wales, the Welsh Government is faced with a series of daunting challenges in relation to the future provision of health care but, unlike the situation in England, has rejected any significant increase in the involvement of the private sector in health care provision. The magnitude of the challenges faced in coping with the impacts of financial austerity on the Welsh health budget suggest there may be a role for the private sector to play in relation to the provision of health care in Wales. This paper explores those potential roles concerning: the supply of services to the NHS in Wales, the supply of health services to the Welsh population and the financing of Welsh health services.

scholarly journals COVID‐19 and the water sector: understanding impact, preparedness and resilience in the UK through a sector‐wide survey

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 715-728 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Cotterill ◽  
Sarah Bunney ◽  
Elizabeth Lawson ◽  
Alastair Chisholm ◽  
Raziyeh Farmani ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Water Sector ◽  
The Uk

Geographical Resource Allocation for Public Mental Health Services in Victoria

1997 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Graham Meadows
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Services ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Public Mental Health ◽  
Background Information ◽  
Major Influence ◽  
The Usa ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Uk

Objective:To provide background information on the approach of area based funding models for mental health services, to describe the considerations which have come to bear in the development process of the Victorian model, to explore the impacts of different models, and to suggest courses for further development. Method:The history of this approach to funding in the UK and the USA is summarised, then an account is given of the development of the Victorian model. The position is put that the validation of such models is hampered by having only sparse relevant data. Suggestions are made for improving this situation. Results:The Victorian model has come to include adjustments for socioeconomic disadvantage, the age, sex and marital status structure of the population, and a variable discounting for estimated substitutive activity of the private sector. Different methods of combining these adjustments into a working formula can be seen to have very different impacts. Conclusions:The approach taken in development of this model can be expected to have major influence on funding within Victoria, but also more widely in Australia. The impacts of differing assumptions within these models are significant. Specifically targeted epidemiological research, and activity analysis of the private sector will be necessary to enhance the validity of models of this type.

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