The contingent valuation method relies on direct elicitation of consumer preferences and willingness to pay. The paper describes an application of the method to facilitate demand-driven planning for provision of improvedsanitation in Ouagadougou
Agricultural use ; Historical geography ; Nineteenth Century ; Sanitationimprovement ; United Kingdom ; Viability ; Waste treatment
Victorian Britain experienced acute problems of sewage disposal which were brought by the expansion of population and its agglomeration into large urban areas. An essential part of the long Victorian debate on improvedsanitation was the belief
Africa ; Collective facilities ; Drainage;Sanitationimprovement ; Drinking water ; Housing ; Public service ; Urban administration ; Urban planning ; Urban policy ; Urban transport ; Urbanization
Over the past two decades, commentators and policy-makers have been enjoined to change their approach, but there are still many who have yet to adopt new attitudes. It is argued that concepts related to urban sanitation, water supply, urban
The water and sanitation scenario in India metropolitan cities : resources and management in Delhi, Calcutta, Chennai, Mumbai
Bombay ; Calcutta ; Delhi ; Drinking water ; Facilities ; India ; Large city ; Madras ; Sanitationimprovement ; Town ; Urban administration ; Water ; Water supply ; Water use
Drainage ; Historical geography ; Louisiana ; Sanitationimprovement ; Segregation ; United States of America ; Urban district ; Urban environment ; Urban population
Before 1900, Blacks occupied the swampy portions of the town. As the city embarked on a project to improve drainage in the 1890s, it began to overhaul environmental conditions. This process would serve the entire city equitably. An examination
Sanitation, segregation and the Natives (Urban Areas) Act : African exclusion from Johannesburg's Malay Location, 1897-1925
. The Council called for improved finances to construct segregated locations. Africans were evicted from areas of the white city proclaimed under the Act, and finally from the racially integrated Malay Location.
Drinking water ; Household equipment ; KwaZulu-Natal ; Local policy ; Privatisation ; Rural community ; Sanitationimprovement ; Service ; South Africa ; Water ; Water management
Access to water and sanitation services remains highly correlated to wealth and race in post-apartheid South Africa, with rural communities the most disadvantaged. The delivery of basic services such as water and electricity to communities denied
Artificial drainage ; Historical geography ; Hydraulic works ; Land use ; Mexico ; Pool ; Public works ; Sanitationimprovement ; Seventeenth Century ; Urban history ; Urban site ; Urbanism
Collective facilities ; Developing countries ; Facilities ; Infrastructure ; Private sector ; Public sector ; Public service ; Sanitationimprovement ; Service ; Town ; Water supply
Facilities ; France ; Household rubbish ; Inter-community cooperation ; Local government ; Map ; Public service ; Sanitationimprovement ; Service ; Settlement