With its rapid economic development in the last 40 years, China's environmental pollution
has begun to seriously affect its citizens' lives as well as domestic business expansion. The …

Abstract In 1994 the Galli Law started an in-depth transformation of the Italian urban water
industry in search for a better performance. However, after more than two decades, there is …

Water used for irrigation is essential for global food production. Increased water scarcity, due
to climate change, is a constraint to agricultural development, especially in arid and semi …

In the present study, a two-stage data envelopment analysis (DEA) model and spatial
econometric method were employed to evaluate and analyze the utilization efficiency of …

Increased competitions for water resources in many regions worldwide call for cooperative
approaches. The competitions are complex for humans to resolve due to numerous …

Consistent with the rapid growth of the Chinese economy and its commercial real estate
(CRE) market, evaluating CRE investments in China is becoming an important application …

A metropolitan area's water supply is imperative to the city's development. One of the main
goals of the water supply utilities is to ensure the availability of water, as a lack of water …

This paper estimates intersectoral labor efficiencies and its covariances in Brazil from 2003
to 2016 using a two-stage neural network model. It investigates whether there is a positive …

Today, achieving managerial success and ongoing improvement depend greatly on the
performance evaluation of service and economic units. On the other hand, we are aware that …

A metropolitan area's water supply is imperative to the city's development. One of the main
goals of the water supply utilities is to ensure the availability of water, as a lack of water …