On the role of water utility governance for climate resilience: A Corporate Social Responsibility Directive approach

IF 3.8 3区 经济学 Q3 ENERGY & FUELS
Chiara De Bernardi , Nora Annesi
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It is widely recognized that climate change poses one of the main threats to human beings and businesses reliant on natural resources and vulnerable to climate-related events. Given the importance of water as indispensable for individual well-being, water utilities must prioritize climate preparedness to ensure high-quality service production. This effort involves, for instance, adopting a long-term planning approach and implementing measures to adapt to evolving conditions, reduce climate change vulnerabilities, and maintain the production of clean drinking water and wastewater services. According to the literature, governance is recognized as crucial to integrate climate change within the organization, but scholars are also calling for a deeper understanding of how it could be reorganized effectively to handle climate change and guarantee organizational resilience in the long term. Based on the governance framework proposed by the new Corporate Social Responsibility Directive (CSR-d), the research explores if and how AQUA, an Italian water utility, can integrate climate change within its governance. The results suggest that the utility considers climate change from the agility, adaptive, and transformative perspectives depending on the governance dimensions considered. Implications for management and policymakers are discussed.
关于水务公司治理对气候适应能力的作用:企业社会责任指令方法
人们普遍认识到,气候变化对依赖自然资源和易受气候相关事件影响的人类和企业构成了主要威胁之一。鉴于水对个人福祉不可或缺的重要性,水务公司必须优先考虑气候准备,以确保高质量的服务生产。例如,这项工作涉及采取长期规划方法和实施措施,以适应不断变化的条件,减少气候变化脆弱性,并保持清洁饮用水和废水服务的生产。根据文献,治理被认为是将气候变化整合到组织内部的关键,但学者们也呼吁更深入地了解如何有效地重组治理,以应对气候变化,并保证组织的长期弹性。基于新的企业社会责任指令(CSR-d)提出的治理框架,该研究探讨了意大利水务公司AQUA是否以及如何将气候变化纳入其治理之中。结果表明,根据所考虑的治理维度,公用事业公司从敏捷性、适应性和变革性的角度考虑气候变化。讨论了对管理层和决策者的影响。
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Utilities Policy
Utilities Policy ENERGY & FUELS-ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
CiteScore
6.80
自引率
10.00%
发文量
94
审稿时长
66 days
期刊介绍: Utilities Policy is deliberately international, interdisciplinary, and intersectoral. Articles address utility trends and issues in both developed and developing economies. Authors and reviewers come from various disciplines, including economics, political science, sociology, law, finance, accounting, management, and engineering. Areas of focus include the utility and network industries providing essential electricity, natural gas, water and wastewater, solid waste, communications, broadband, postal, and public transportation services. Utilities Policy invites submissions that apply various quantitative and qualitative methods. Contributions are welcome from both established and emerging scholars as well as accomplished practitioners. Interdisciplinary, comparative, and applied works are encouraged. Submissions to the journal should have a clear focus on governance, performance, and/or analysis of public utilities with an aim toward informing the policymaking process and providing recommendations as appropriate. Relevant topics and issues include but are not limited to industry structures and ownership, market design and dynamics, economic development, resource planning, system modeling, accounting and finance, infrastructure investment, supply and demand efficiency, strategic management and productivity, network operations and integration, supply chains, adaptation and flexibility, service-quality standards, benchmarking and metrics, benefit-cost analysis, behavior and incentives, pricing and demand response, economic and environmental regulation, regulatory performance and impact, restructuring and deregulation, and policy institutions.
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