Title :
Capacity-building for sustainable service delivery in lower-income communities
Author :
Faeh, Christina ; Garstka, Stanley ; Giannelli, Natalie ; LaBranche, Kyle ; Sen, Soham ; Singleton, Amanda ; Louis, Garrick E. ; Marquez, Robert O. ; Neville, Beth
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Syst. & Inf. Eng., Virginia Univ., Charlottesville, VA
Abstract :
The Consortium for Integrated Municipal Sanitation Systems has developed a framework for evaluating a community´s capacity to sustain the delivery of municipal sanitation services. The framework is applicable to planning for other sustainable community services. This project uses this framework to assess and evaluate education and tourism services in two different low-income communities. The factors limiting the sustainability of these two services are identified by the framework and are used to evaluate the type and level of service appropriate for each respective community
Keywords :
education; local government; sanitary engineering; sustainable development; travel industry; waste management; Integrated Municipal Sanitation System Consortium; capacity-building; education service; lower-income community; municipal sanitation service delivery; sustainable community service delivery; tourism service; Capacity planning; Cultural differences; Educational programs; Environmental economics; Global communication; Power engineering and energy; Power generation economics; Risk management; Solids; Waste management;
Conference_Titel :
Systems and Information Engineering Design Symposium, 2004. Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Charlottesville, VA
Print_ISBN :
0-9744559-2-X
DOI :
10.1109/SIEDS.2004.239816