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| Author: | Starkl, M. Brunner, N. |
| Title: | Feasibility versus sustainability in urban water management |
| Journal: | Journal of Environmental Management
2004 : JUL, VOL. 71:3, p. 245-260 |
| Index terms: | Decision making Social welfare Subsidies Sustainable development Water supply industry Austria |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | This paper exemplifies decision making in urban water management by the case of Austria. Although researchers define a comprehensible concept of sustainability, practitioners emphasize feasibility and accept limitations in sustainability. Could the specification of particular methods, choosen from some decision support methodology, remedy this situation? While an integrative assessment of sustainability should not be based on prescribed or standardized criteria, or even a certain assessment method, it should force the decision makers to make their chosen premise more visible. |
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