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WATER QUALITY MANAGEMENT BY REGIONAL AUTHORITIES IN THE RUHR AREA WITH SPECIAL EMPHASIS ON THE ROLE OF COST ASSESSMENT
Author(s) -
Kneese Allen V.
Publication year - 1963
Publication title -
papers in regional science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.937
H-Index - 64
eISSN - 1435-5957
pISSN - 1056-8190
DOI - 10.1111/j.1435-5597.1963.tb01900.x
Subject(s) - officer , commission , sanitation , government (linguistics) , political science , management , public administration , chief executive officer , interpretation (philosophy) , quality (philosophy) , library science , law , engineering , economics , philosophy , epistemology , linguistics , environmental engineering , computer science , programming language
The author is on the staff of Resources for the Future, Inc. The views expressed are those of the author and not necessarily of his organization. John Krutilla, Orris Herfindahl and Jerome Milliman of Resources for the Future have read this manuscript and contributed helpful suggestions. The author is grateful to them and to a number of his other associates at RfF for discussions of various points. Conversations with Edward Cleary, Executive Director of the Ohio Valley Sanitation Commission; Gordon Fair; Gordon McKay, Professor of Civil Engineering, Harvard University; and S. V. CiriacyWantrup, Professor of Agricultural Economics, University of California, Berkeley, have aided his understanding of the work of the water resources associations in the Ruhr area. Numerous officials of these associations, as well as water resources officials of the State of Northrhine-Westphalia and of the Federal Government in Bonn, have contributed time and effort to his education in matters of "'Wasser-Wirstchaft" in the Ruhr industrial area. The author is especially grateful to Dr. Ing. Koenig, Executive Officer of the Ruhrverband-Ruhrtal-sperrenverein and to Dr. Ing. Knop, Executive Officer of the Ernschergenossenschaft-Lippeverband and their respective staffs. However, none of the individuals named bears any responsibility for errors of fact or interpretation which may appear in this paper.