TY - GEN AU - Amin, A. T. M. Nurul TI - Economic and financial considerations in urban environmental management U1 - 333.7 PY - 2005/// PB - Urban Management Programme KW - N1 - CONTENTS Introduction 1 1.Key Economic and Financial Considerations for Effective 4 2.Management of the Urban Environment Economic Considerations 4 Financial Considerations 6 Some Key Economic and Financial Analyses Related Concepts 6 Defined and Distinguished 3.Economics and Public Policy Instruments 10 Environmental Management Measures: Derived from the 15 Insight of Environmental Economics Economists' Articulation of Environmental Problems 15 Externalities, Open-Access Resources and Public Goods: 16 Elaborative Notes Environmental Management Measures (EMM) 18 Prerequisites for EMM Applications 21 Status on Application of EMM in Asia 23 4.Economic and Financial Considerations in the Urban 25 Environmental Infrastructure and Service Provisions Making Use of Economic and Market Logics in the Urban 25 Land, Labour, Capital and Housing Markets Scope and Limitation of Using Market Norms (Price and 26 Competitive Systems) in UEI&S Provisions Pricing of Urban Infrastructure and Services 27 Traditional Methods of Financing Urban Infrastructure and 29 Services Municipal Service Financing 31 New Direction in Financing Urban Infrastructure ยป 35 5.Cases on EMM Applications to the UEM Subsectors 37 A Design of Using Economic Instruments for Reducing 37 Vehicular Air Pollution in Bangkok through Reduction of Car Use and Promoting Mass Transit A Holistic Approach (Application of EMM) in Controlling 39 Vehicular Air Pollution in Hanoi Managing the Hazardous Industrial Wastes in the Bangkok Region 41 Use of Economic Instruments in Wastewater Management in Thailand 43 Application of Regulatory and Economic Instruments in Solid Waste Management in Hanoi 44 6.Cases on Economic and Financial Analyses for Improving Urban 47 Environmental Infrastructure and Service Provisions An Analysis of Household Affordability and Willingness to Pay for Improved Water Supply in Two Towns of Lao PDR 47 Promoting Mass Transit for Improving Urban Environmental Management: A Focus on Pricing and Financing of Bus 49 Service in Hanoi Cost Comparisons of Composting Options by Using Material Flow Analysis (MFA) for Solid Waste Management in Dhaka 51 Improving the Cost Recovery for Water Supply in Dhaka 53 Urban Agriculture as a Municipal Waste Reduction Strategy: A Study of Commercial Farms in Suan Luang District, Bangkok Metropolis 55 Economic Analysis of Composting as Municipal Waste Recycling and Reuse Strategy for Lahore 59 Financial Analysis of the Vacutug Service for Collecting and Disposal of Faecal Sludge in Dhaka 62 Financial Viability of Duckweed Production-Based Waste Water Treatment System (as a Model of DWWM) in Khulna, Bangladesh 65 Financing and Cost Recovery of Decentralized Wastewater Management in Two Urban Districts in Hanoi 71 6.10. Potential of Attracting FDI for UEI&S Provision 74 7.Dialogue with the High-Level Policymakers on the Use of EMM and Attracting FDI for Improving UEM: The Case of Bangladesh 76 The Bangladesh Status on Making Use of EMM 77 Comments on Enforcement, Compliance and Capacity Building 78 Some Observations from the Dialogue with the High-Level Policymakers 79 8.Concluding Remarks 83 References 86 Appendix 1: AIT Masters' and Doctoral Theses Completed under Author's Supervision 90 List of UMP Asia Occasional Papers 96 ER -