To improve the management of the public water supply service in the city of Chennai, the French utility company Veolia provided to Chennai Metro Water technical assistance from 2002 to 2006, under the institutional support of an international donor, the World Bank. This case illustrates how instilling managerial and technical changes in public water utilities through foreign direct investment is a challenging task.
The purpose of this study is to reveal how the urban market for off-grid energy production in the hybrid domain developed in the Indian context and to critically reflect on this phenomenon.
Cette thèse examine les conditions économiques dans lesquelles l’hydrogène vert peut être efficacement déployé pour accompagner la transition énergétique des secteurs industriels difficiles à...
Urban green spaces improve quality of life, but may reduce car space. We first propose a theoretical model to analyze this trade-off. Positive global willingness-to-pay (WTP) is observed for scenarios that improve biodiversity and air cooling with minimal loss of car space, while negative WTP arises when car space is greatly reduced without substantial environmental benefits.
