Demand for renewable energy is booming. Scholars often attribute this success to feed-in tariffs (FITs), which mandate that energy utilities pay a premium to renewable electricity producers and guarantee grid access for them. Why have so many countries, including least developed ones, adopted these policies? We hypothesize that democratic governments have political incentives to adopt the FIT b...

The role that deficient institutional relationships have played in aggravating drinking water incidents over the last 30 years has been identified in several inquiries of high profile drinking water safety events, peer-reviewed articles and media reports. These indicate that collaboration between water utilities and public health agencies (PHAs) during normal operations, and in emergencies, nee...

The purpose of this study was to analyze the efficacy selected human resource management practices on organizational performance in public sector organizations: A water utilities Tanzania. descriptive correlation design used, and both qualitative quantitative approaches were adopted. Simple purposive random technique used selecting 370 respondents including 15 other managers, 5 managers managin...

It is often necessary to specify social welfare functions (SWFs) to allocate forms of capital that provide public services to heterogeneous agents yet lie outside of capital markets. Of the SWFs consistent with Pareto optimality, only weighted combinations of individual utilities with “Negishi”, inverse marginal utility of the numeraire (income), weights replicate market outcomes for given init...

Advances in life sciences that are predicted in the 21st century will present many challenges for health professionals and policy-makers. The major questions will be how to allocate resources to pay for costs of new technologies and who will best benefit from advances in new diagnostic and treatment methods. We review in this paper the concept of utility and how it can be applied and expanded t...

Our hearts go out to our Gulf and Atlantic Coast neighbors who were battered by the harrowing effects and destructive aftermath of hurricanes Harvey and Irma, which made landfall with historically destructive force in late August and early September. The estimated cost to rebuild and recover is staggering. These disasters will change the infrastructure of nearly all aspects of how Gulf and Atla...