Water sector evolution scenarios: the case of Europe

Water Policy ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 221-238 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeremy Allouche ◽  
Matthias Finger ◽  
Patrícia Luís-Manso
Keyword(s):  
Water Supply ◽  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Public Management ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Community Management ◽  
Empirical Knowledge ◽  
Drivers Of Change ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
European Water

The purpose of this article is to identify possible scenarios for the evolution of the European water supply and sanitation sectors (WSS) in the next 15 years, on the basis of empirical knowledge of its dynamics. These are: tendered market, tendered market with strong regulation, administrative regulation, outsourcing, direct public management and community management. In order to do this, the authors examined the main characteristics of the sector that influence the way the sector is likely to evolve, the nature and scope of the WSS markets in Europe, as well as the role of the main actors involved in this sector (whether the European Union's institutions, public and private operators, or national regulators). This detailed analysis resulted in the framing of the main drivers of change affecting the whole sector in Europe, as well as three macro-storylines along two paradigms, a liberalized and a non-liberalized environment, that were at the basis of the identification of the water “scenarios”. The authors have finally tested the plausibility of the scenarios in selected European countries.

Normative Reframing and the RGGI Revolution

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leigh Raymond
Keyword(s):  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Interest Group ◽  
The Political ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Public Benefit ◽  
New Public ◽  
Interest Group Politics ◽  
Group Politics

This chapter provides a detailed analysis of the multi-year design process leading to the implementation of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) in 2008. It considers the question: How did RGGI’s policy designers succeed in auctioning virtually all of the program’s emissions allowances, wheresimilar efforts to promote auctions failed? After reviewing the limits of existing explanations of RGGI’s decision to auction allowances that are grounded in the interest group politics model, the chapter offers a detailed analysis of the RGGI design process to demonstrate the central role of the new public benefit model in making auctions politically viable. Public and private accounts confirm the prominence of this new normative framing for auctions from the very beginning of the process, and its influence over the political choice to make this policy change.

scholarly journals “Hydrocarbon strategy” of Azerbaijan’s foreign policy: 2008 – 2015

2016 ◽  
pp. 15-26
Author(s):  
M. Volhonsky
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
European Market ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Gas Pipelines ◽  
Infrastructure Projects ◽  
Energy Factor ◽  
Eu Policy ◽  
The Impact

This article examines the role of energy factor in Azerbaijan’s foreign policy in the period from 2008 to 2015. Detailed analysis of the impact of EU policy on diversification of energy supplies to European countries for the development of «hydrocarbon strategy» of Azerbaijan’s foreign policy exposes the differences between the Baku and Brussels on ways of resolving the problem of diversification of gas supplies to Europe. The article also examines the specific goals pursued by the Azerbaijani authorities, initiating the creation of new gas pipelines TANAP and TAP, and helps to understand the position of Baku regarding the project of creating a «TRANS-Caspian pipeline.» In general, the foreign policy of Azerbaijan in the energy sphere is admitted in the article as quite successful. This policy allowed Baku to go through the implementation of various infrastructure projects to a wider gas security as a part of the European market.

scholarly journals Securing the critical role of groundwater for the resilient water-supply of urban Africa

Water Policy ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 121-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Foster ◽  
Michael Eichholz ◽  
Bertil Nlend ◽  
Julia Gathu
Keyword(s):  
Water Supply ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Private Investment ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Proactive Approach ◽  
Resource Sustainability ◽  
Key Policy ◽  
Sub Saharan

Abstract The provision of secure water-supplies for the rapidly expanding cities of sub-Saharan Africa experiencing climate-change stress will be one of the great infrastructure and environmental challenges of the next 20–50 years. Most African cities are blessed with usable groundwater, and some with the presence of major aquifers, but urban water utilities will need to take a more proactive approach to groundwater resource management and quality protection if the opportunity of a secure water supply is to be sustainably secured. Among the key policy issues that need more attention are rationalising utility groundwater use, prioritising installation of mains sewerage to reduce groundwater pollution risk, promoting enhanced groundwater recharge to improve resource sustainability, using groundwater in ‘decentralised closed-loop water-service systems’ to meet the demands of new outer urban districts, and implementing a consistent policy response to the ‘boom’ in private self-supply from waterwells. The consequences of non-action in terms of much increased exposure to water-supply crises, potentially hazardous water-supply pollution incidents, and irrational public and private investment in water-supply access are highlighted.

scholarly journals Ante los retos de las grandes transformaciones, ¿qué esperamos las personas directivas públicas de las decisoras?

2020 ◽  
pp. 94-113
Author(s):  
Fernando MONAR RUBIA
Keyword(s):  
Public Management ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Management Skills ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
Strategic Vision ◽  
Public Managers ◽  
Private Behavior ◽  
Public Collaboration

Laburpena: Sektore publikoaren zeregina gakoa izan da gizarteek aurrera egiteko, eta izaten segituko du hurrengo hamarkadatan ere. Erabakitzaileak –gobernu-taldeetako kideak– eta zuzendaritza-kide publikoak –zuzenean edo zeharka, lehenengoen menpekoak, maila batean edo batzuetan– dira politika publikoen katalizatzaile potentzialak. Gizarte modura aurrean ditugun erronkei aurre egiteko –esaterako, eraldaketa digitalari–, pertsonarik onenak behar dira, erronka horiei administrazio publikoetako lidergo bikoitzetik aurre egiteko. Batzuetatik –erabakitzaileetatik– eta besteetatik –zuzendaritza-kideetatik– herritar guztiok espero ditugu antzeko gaitasun eta jarrerak: eredugarriak izan daitezela beren jokaera publiko eta pribatuan, izan dezatela ikuskera estrategikoa, maila askotako sentsibilitatea eta berrikuntzarako eta gardentasunerako orientazioa eta kontuak emateko orientazioa, eta taldeak sortzeko gaitasuna, batez ere onenak kontuan hartuta. Artikuluak nazioarteko egungo egoeraren sarrera egiten du, garapen jasangarriaren helburuetatik; bederatzi konpetentzia zehazten ditu, zuzendaritza-kide publikoek erabakitzaileengadik espero ditzakegunak, eta, amaitzeko, konpetentzia bat aipatzen du, zerikusia duena taldeak sortzearekin, meritokraziatik eta zuzendaritza publiko profesionalaren ekologiatik abiatuta –zuzendaritza-konpetentziak, publizitatea, ...– herrialderik aurreratuenetan bezala. Resumen: El papel del sector público ha sido clave para el progreso de las sociedades y lo seguirá siendo en las próximas décadas. Las personas decisoras – miembros de los equipos de gobierno - y las personas directivas públicas – quienes dependen de las primeras, directa o indirectamente, en uno o varios escalones - son catalizadoras del potencial de las políticas públicas. Los retos que tenemos por delante como sociedad – el de la transformación digital, por ejemplo - requieren contar con las mejores personas para afrontarlos, desde el liderazgo dual de las Administraciones Públicas. De las unas – decisoras - y de las otras – directivas - esperamos, toda la ciudadanía, capacidades y actitudes similares: que sean ejemplares en su comportamiento público y privado, que tengan visión estratégica, sensibilidad multinivel y hacia la colaboración público privada, orientación a la innovación y la transparencia, y a la rendición de cuentas, y capacidad de crear equipos contando con las mejores personas, fundamentalmente. El artículo hace una introducción a la situación internacional, detalla las competencias que las personas directivas públicas esperamos de las decisoras, y concluye con la competencia que tiene que ver con la capacidad de crear equipos construidos desde la meritocracia y la ecología de la dirección pública profesional – competencias directivas, publicidad…- emulando a los países más avanzados. Abstract: The role of the public sector has been key to the progress of societies and will continue to be in the coming decades. Decision makers - members of government teams - and public managers - who depend on the former, directly or indirectly, on one or several steps - are catalysts for the potential of public policies. The challenges that lie ahead as a society - that of digital transformation, for example - require having the best people to face them, from the dual leadership of Public Administrations. Of the some - decision makers - and the other - directives - we expect, all citizens, similar capacities and attitudes: that they be exemplary in their public and private behavior, that they have strategic vision, multilevel sensitivity and towards private public collaboration, innovation orientation and transparency, and accountability, and ability to create teams with the best, fundamentally. The article introduces the international situation, details the competencies that public managers can expect from decision makers, and concludes with the competence that has to do with the ability to create teams built from meritocracy. and the ecology of professional public management - management skills, advertising, ... - emulating the most advanced countries.

scholarly journals La revisión del modelo de gestión pública : efectos de la reposición del ámbito privado en el marco jurídico público

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julián Torrado Sancho
Keyword(s):  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Public Management ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Status ◽  
Transformation Processes

Los procesos de transformación en la Gestión Pública han actuado en las funciones y organización de la Administración, produciendo cambios que han afectado tanto a las relaciones entre el ámbito público y privado, en el seno de los poderes públicos y sus órganos administrativos, como entre los procedimientos técnicos y jurídicos que los conforman. Una revisión de estos fenómenos lleva a la necesidad de realizar un estudio más profundo y objetivo acerca del papel del marco jurídico público y, especialmente, el régimen jurídico administrativo, ante la necesidad de abrir nuevos enfoques y perspectivas sobre la situación del Estado de Derecho.The transformation processes in public management have acted on the functions and organization of the administration, producing changes that have affected both the relationships between the public and private, within public authorities and administrative bodies, and between technical and legal procedures that conform. A review of these phenomena leads to the need for a more thorough and objective study on the role of public legal framework, especially the administrative legal system, given the need to open up new approaches and perspectives on the status of the rule of law.

scholarly journals “The last battayle is atte hande”: Conceptions of Death in Renaissance Italy

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 77-100
Author(s):  
Lucas Corrado Coia
Keyword(s):  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Careful Analysis ◽  
Black Death ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
New Strategy ◽  
Renaissance Italy ◽  
The Individual

The decades after the Black Death saw a transformation in death practice in Italy. As the experience of the plague prompted renewed anxiety toward the afterlife, a new 'strategy for eternity' marked by a cult of remembrance took shape. This new focus on the individual in death has often been seen in tandem with the purported rise in individualism beginning with the spread of humanism. This paper complicates this narrative through a detailed analysis of contemporary death practice from the perspective of the 'public' and 'private'. It draws primarily from evidence found in Boccaccio’s Decameron and Johann Burchard’s account of Pope Alexander VI’s death. Through careful analysis it is demonstrated that death, while subject to seemingly individualizing forces remained simultaneously a concern of society at large. In a time and place where the ‘public’ and ‘private’ overlapped considerably, it would therefore be hazardous to argue that Renaissance Italians simply rejected the role of the community in something as universal as death.

Desecularization as Phenomenon at the Turn of 21st Century

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
pp. 49-57
Author(s):  
Sergey V.  Lebedev ◽  
Galina N.  Lebedeva
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Islamic Revolution ◽  
Islamic Movement ◽  
The World ◽  
Rational Alternative ◽  
Role Of Religion

In the article the authors note that since the 1970s, with the rise of the Islamic movement and the Islamic revolution in Iran, philosophers and political scientists started to talk about religious renaissance in many regions of the world. In addition, the point at issue is the growing role of religion in society, including European countries that have long ago gone through the process of secularization. The reasons for this phenomenon, regardless of its name, are diverse, but understandable: secular ideologies of the last century failed to explain the existing social problems and give them a rational alternative.

Public and Private Net Savings in Developing Countries: Some Empirical Tests for the Period 1972-88 (Distinguishedl Lecture)

1992 ◽  
Vol 31 (4I) ◽  
pp. 431-447
Author(s):  
Peter A. Cornelisse ◽  
Elma Van De Mortel
Keyword(s):  
Public Debt ◽  
World Economy ◽  
Socioeconomic Development ◽  
Critical Size ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Critical Dimensions ◽  
The Public ◽  
Empirical Tests ◽  
Financial Issues

The severe shocks that rocked the world economy in the 1970s and the ensuing efforts to adjust and to renew economic growth have had a profound effect on the economic literature. Especially the external and public debt problems which reached critical dimensions in many countries attracted much attention. Thus, in the field of macroeconomics financial issues have gained more prominence over the last two decades. Studies relating to the fiscal deficit have been particularly numerous. The critical size of national public debts, the contribution of the public debt to external debt, the reduced confidence in the state as the guide in socioeconomic development and the role of fiscal policy in adjustment processes are among the main reasons for this increased interest.

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