Who owns the pipes? Utility ownership, infrastructure conditions, and methane emissions in United States natural gas distribution.
Critical infrastructure systems that provide local public services are owned by a complicated array of public and private entities that are subject to disparate regulatory regimes. Determining whether and why performance differences between public and private service providers emerge in these differ...
| Publicado en: | Review of Policy Research Vol. 39; no. 2; pp. 170 - 199 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Mar2022
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