Valuing Water, Valuing Livelihoods
Guidance on Social Cost-benefit Analysis of Drinking-water Interventions, with Special Reference to Small Community Water Supplies
Published on 24. October 2011
262 pages
978-1-78040-578-0 (ISBN)
Description
The aim of Valuing Water, Valuing Livelihoods is to give decision-makers, health professionals and analysts a comprehensive view of the arguments and challenges associated with establishing the value of drinking-water interventions.
The experts who have contributed to this publication provide guidance on assessing the benefits from improving access to safe drinking-water and from reducing the burden of water-related diseases. They show how to compare the value of these benefits to the costs of interventions, with special reference to small-scale drinking-water systems. Valuing Water, Valuing Livelihoods provides decision-makers, health professionals and analysts with the tools to promote improved access to safe drinking-water, especially for small and vulnerable communities in developing countries, by presenting comprehensive coverage of principles and practice, technology and economics, health, livelihoods and ethics.
The experts who have contributed to this publication provide guidance on assessing the benefits from improving access to safe drinking-water and from reducing the burden of water-related diseases. They show how to compare the value of these benefits to the costs of interventions, with special reference to small-scale drinking-water systems. Valuing Water, Valuing Livelihoods provides decision-makers, health professionals and analysts with the tools to promote improved access to safe drinking-water, especially for small and vulnerable communities in developing countries, by presenting comprehensive coverage of principles and practice, technology and economics, health, livelihoods and ethics.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
File size
12,99 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-78040-578-0 (9781780405780)
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Kathy Pond | J. Cameron | Paul R. Hunter
Valuing Water, Valuing Livelihoods
Book
10/2011
IWA Publishing
€105.42
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Content
- Cover
- Copyright
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1. Background
- 2. The practice of economic assessment of small-scale drinking-water interventions
- 3. Economic assessments of improvements in drinking-water supply - the global evidence
- 4. Current situation in access to drinking-water
- 5. Defining the current situation - epidemiology
- 6. Defining the current situation - observing livelihoods
- 7. Interventions for water provision
- 8. Estimating the costs of small-scale water-supply interventions
- 9. Estimating health impacts of interventions with a focus on small-scale drinking-water interventions
- 10. Cost-effectiveness analysis in practice
- 11. Social cost-benefit analysis - principles
- 12. Social cost-benefit analysis - summarizing the available global evidence on drinking-water interventions
- Index
