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    @inbook {855,
    	title = {Sectoral indices to evaluate the sustainability of wastewater utilities},
    	booktitle = {Recent Researches in Environment, Energy Systems and Sustainability},
    	year = {2012},
    	month = {2012-05-01 00:00:00},
    	pages = {203-209},
    	publisher = {WSEAS Press},
    	organization = {WSEAS Press},
    	edition = {Energy, Environmental and Structural Engineering Series | 1 },
    	address = {Faro, Portugal},
    	abstract = {

    Wastewater systems are a structural part of public utilities and as such are vital to the general wellbeing, public health, economic activities and environment protection. These services, with the primary
    objective of protecting the interests of users, shall be governed by principles of universality of access,
    continuity and quality of service, efficiency, equity and sustainability of price.
    The aim of this paper is to contribute for the improvement of the Portuguese performance assessment system,
    through the development and application of a complementary methodology to define sectoral and global indices of sanitation service performance in order to evaluate the sustainability of a given wastewater utility. This methodology allows a truly quantitative evaluation in which each performance indicator represents a criterion to be considered and judiciously weighted. The sectoralindices are calculated as a weighted linear combination of the normalized scores of each performance indicator, which is one of the most common aggregation procedures available in the context of multicriteria evaluation. The criteria normalization process essentially based on fuzzy sets defined for each indicator. A sensitivity analysis of indices values to different weighting methods was also performed.

    }, keywords = {Multicriteria analysis, Performance indicators, Sustainably indices, Wastewater utilities management, Weighting methods}, isbn = {978-1-61804-088-6}, issn = { 2227-4359 }, url = {http://www.wseas.us/books/2012/Algarve/EEESD.pdf}, author = {Granja, C. and Duarte, A.A.L.S. and Ram{\'\i}sio, P. J. and Ramos, R. A. R. and Bentes, I.} }

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    The Centre for Territory, Environment and Construction (CTAC) is a research unit of the School of Engineering of University of Minho (UMinho), recognised by the “FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia” (Foundation for Science and Technology), associated to the Department of Civil Engineering (DEC), with whom it shares resources and namely human resources.

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