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Improving public utilities in urban areas
Synonyms:
Developing municipal electricity, gas, water and sanitary services
Providing public infrastructure in urban areas
Improving urban residential services
Delivering urban services through local government
Improving delivery of urban services
Broader:
Improving
Creating urban services
Managing public services
Upgrading basic utilities system
Providing environmental infrastructure for human settlements
Ensuring adequate local government services
Narrower:
Managing municipal water supply
Improving sanitation for the poor
Increasing supply of serviced land
Increasing urban water treatment capacity
Recycling municipal waste water and solid waste
Improving services infrastructure in poor urban areas
Using cogeneration of electricity and heat
Constrained by:
Reforming state-owned enterprises
Limiting access to urban services
Facilitates:
Enabling access to urban services
Upgrading settlements and urban slums
Increasing availability of local services
Facilitated by:
Strengthening shelter sector
Privatizing public utilities
Strengthening local governments
Increasing security of land tenure
Reducing number of parallel urban services
Improving international cooperation on environmental infrastructure
Recovering costs of urban infrastructure and services to high income areas
Providing training to staff in the urban energy and transportation services
Strengthening local institutions and partnerships for integrated infrastructure services
Problems:
Underprovision of basic urban services
Values:
Service
Nonlocal
Government
Unsanitary
Self-government
References:
Murray, Barrie: Electricity Markets
Subjects:
Fundamental Sciences
→
Gaseous state
Hydrology
→
Water
Social Activity
→
Services
Amenities
→
Urban
Amenities
→
Housing, tenants
Transportation, Telecommunications
→
Forwarders, distributors
Industry
→
Utilities
Societal Problems
→
Hygiene
Government
→
Municipalities
Government
→
Public
Technology
→
Electricity
Development
→
Development
Development
→
Reform
Type Classification:
E: Emanations of other strategies
Related UN Sustainable Development Goals: