Financing Urban Functions and Services

Financing Green Urban Infrastructure

This paper presents an overview of practices and challenges related to financing green sustainable cities. Cities are essential actors in stimulating green infrastructure; and urban finance is one of the promising ways in which this can be achieved. Cities are key investors in infrastructure with green potential, such as buildings, transport, water and waste. Their main revenue sources, such as...

Health Services Financing

• To study the role of health care financing and its impact on the delivery of health care. • To understand the basic concept of insurance and how insurance terminology, such as premiums, covered services, and cost sharing apply to health insurance. • To differentiate between the concepts of group insurance, selfinsurance, individual health insurance, and managed care. • To examine the distinct...

Green Roofs as Urban Ecosystems: Ecological Structures, Functions, and Services

Financing and Managing Public Services: An Assessment

Public services can be, and are, delivered according to a variety of different arrangements. The public sector can finance and provide a service itself, or contract with the private sector to participate in provision, or its role may be limited to regulating a private provider. In this paper we examine the features determining the effectiveness of public-service delivery, including incentives f...

Health Services and Financing of Treatment

Financing, payment, and organization and management of alcohol and other drug (AOD) treatment services are closely intertwined and together determine whether people have access to treatment, how the treatment system is designed, and the quality and cost of treatment services. Since the 1960s, changes in these arrangements have driven changes in the delivery of AOD treatment, and recent developm...