Al Coordinatore del Settore Ricerca Direzione Ricerca e Internazionalizzazione RICHIESTA DI CONTRIBUTO per ORGANIZZAZIONE CONVEGNO Organizzatore Responsabile GIULIA ROMANO Dipartimento ECONOMIA E MANAGEMENT Titolo del convegno European Water Utility Management: Promoting Efficiency, Innovation and Knowledge in the Water Industry Data di inizio 3 GIUGNO 2015 Durata in giorni 1 Per convegni di durata uguale a un giorno indicare se si tratta di mezza giornata giornata intera X Sede di svolgimento PISA Numero totale di relatori circa 15 papers presentati (+ special issue su rivista fascia A Anvur) Relatori stranieri previsti si X no Indicare il numero 7-10 papers con autori stranieri Numero di partecipanti previsti 50 Quota di iscrizione si no X Indicare se dal pagamento della quota sono stati esclusi studenti e dottorandi si no Convegno in memoria di docente dell Ateneo organizzato e dedicato specificamente al pensiero e all opera del docente si no X Indicare il nominativo Elencare altri enti pubblici o Associazioni pubbliche/private che collaborano all organizzazione IL CONVEGNO E ORGANIZZATO NELL AMBITO DI UN MODULO JEAN MONNET e HA ATTENUTO IL PATROCINIO SIDREA Il convegno è aperto alla cittadinanza? si X no Il richiedente ha ottenuto nell ultimo anno contributi per altri congressi? si no X Si allega il programma del convegno DATA FIRMA
Pisa, 3 giugno 2015 European Water Utility Management: promoting innovation within the water industry and spreading knowledge on relevant and cutting edge water utility issues 1. Marta Suárez- Varela, Marían García- Valiñas, Francisco González- Gómez and Andrés J Picazo- Tadeo: "Ownership and performance in water services revisited: Do private management really outperform public one? 2. Antonio Massarutto: "Devil and the Details: Italian water pricing reform between technical rules and political will" 3. Lin Crase and Bethany Cooper "Pushing the governance boundaries: The role of water utilities in managing the ecological and amenity values of urban waterways" 4. Rui Cunha Marques, Andrea Guerrini, Giulia Romano: "Benchmarking the performance of wastewater utilities in Denmark" 5. Alexandros Maziotis, Maria Molinos- Senante and R. Sala- Garrido: "Assessing the impact of quality of service on the productivity of water industry: A Malmquist- Luenberger productivity index approach for England and Wales 6. Graziano Abrate, Clementina Bruno, Fabrizio Erbetta, Giovanni Fraquelli and Anna Giolitti: Efficiency in the consolidation of the Italian water sector 7. Alberto Ruiz Villaverde and Miguel A. García- Rubio: Public participation in water management: what is known and what needs to be done 8. Ch. Menexidou, J.F Vergès, A.N. Menegaki, K.P. Tsagarakis: Does the open data movement permeate water utilities? A case study in Greece and a reference to France 9. Oberdan Cei and Maurizio Creati: WETNET - A Supervisor For District Metered Areas (Assets Management) 10. Eduardo Araral, Alberto Asquer, Yahya Wang: "Opening Up the Black Box of the Regulatory Discourse: Exploring Subjectivities on Local Water Services among Public Officers in China 11. Angelo Antoci, Simone Borghesi, Mauro Sodini: "Water- resource use and conflict in a two- sector evolutionary model 12. Maria Molinos- Senante, Alexandros Maziotis and R. Sala- Garrido: Assessment Of The Total Factor Productivity Change In The English And Welsh Water Industry: A Färe- Primont Productivity Index Approach 13. Giulia Romano, Andrea Guerrini, Simone Lippi, Fabrizio Mancuso: "The efficiency of wastewater plants: enquiring and modelling the factors affecting the performance" 14. Giovanni Canitano "Financial structure of Italian water utilities: which insights for economic regulation?" 15. Jacopo Bercelli: "The in- house providing of water services in Europe: regulatory schemes, governance models and performance"
Call for Papers International Seminar and Special Issue in Water Resources Management on European Water Utility Management: Promoting Efficiency, Innovation and Knowledge in the Water Industry In the European Union, the Water Framework Directive (2000/60/EC) is based on the idea that water management needs to take into account economic, ecological and social issues, and that its major objective is the sustainable and efficient use and management of water resources. In the coming years, European water resources will be placed under further pressure by many factors, such as population growth, urbanization and climate change. Therefore, policymakers and water utility managers face the puzzle of balancing the increasing human demand for water and the protection of the ecosystems sustainability, fueling the on-going search for the best practices in water utility management that produce superior performance. In the light of the current challenges on resource efficiency and performance improvement, the promotion of innovation and benchmark activities within the water industry is a cutting edge issue for the European Union. The literature still face the need of identifying and discussing in depth current relevant experiences of benchmarking in water utility management and regulation that characterize different European countries in order to identify the relevance, usefulness and potential cross-border diffusion of these activities, becoming trans-boundary strategies, policies and actions. Bearing this in mind, the European water management system could become a collaborative catalyst of methods and tools for setting, maintaining and improving best practices in utility management. This special issue (SI) of Water Resources Management intends to foster relationships via discussion, creation and dissemination of relevant and cutting-edge European water utility management issues by
bringing together outstanding international scholars and contribute positively to the research agenda. It will draw on an International Seminar held under the same theme and integrated in the European Jean Monnet EWUM Project, sponsored by the European Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). The EWUM Seminar will take place in Pisa, Italy, 3 June 2015. The SI will gather selected research papers from the Seminar. The emphasis will be on research that accounts for cutting-edge European water utility management issues, such as experiences in benchmarking (management and regulatory impacts) and attempts to highlight best practices to be spread throughout European countries. Submission Guidelines The schedule for submission, review, and publication is: Call for papers: 1 February 2015; Submission of a 300-400 word extended abstract to the Editorial Team (see contact information below) by 15 March 2015; The editorial team completes evaluation of extended abstracts and invites authors of accepted abstracts to develop full papers and present them in the EWUM Workshop: 3 June 2015; Deadline for submission of full papers via Springer s online system, in accordance with Water Resources Management specific guidelines for authors: 15 October 2015; All manuscripts will be fully reviewed before final decisions are made on all submissions; Publication date: Fall 2016. Paper submissions should be around 6,000 words. All types of submissions are welcomed (e.g. comprehensive reviews, theoretical papers, broad empirical studies and/or case studies). All papers should be developed based upon the editorial guidelines provided in the instructions for authors for Water Resources Management, which can be accessed here: http://www.springer.com/earth+sciences+and+geography/hydrogeology/journal/11269 Editorial Team - Contact Information Giulia Romano, Department of Economics and Management, University of Pisa, Italy. E- mail: giulia.romano@unipi.it; Phone: + 39 0502216409; Fax + 39 050 2210603. Andrea Guerrini, Department of Business Administration, University of Verona, Italy. E- mail: andrea.guerrini@univr.it ; Phone: +39 045/8028690; Fax: 045/8028488. Rui Cunha Marques, CESUR, Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, Portugal. E- mail: rui.marques@tecnico.ulisboa.pt; Phone: +351 218413105; Fax: +351 218409884. Websites: http://jmwater.ec.unipi.it/