A simplified conceptual process model is combined with techno-economic aggregation rules to obtain an engineering production function, which relates process inputs (capital, material, labor, and energy) to output (stripped water flow rate).
Ruhwinkel (2013) accordingly concludes that on a high level of aggregation, economic, ecological, and social developments are seen as an inner unity.
The CBS demand function followed the economic assumptions of aggregation, symmetry and homogeneity restrictions.
This paper provides a template for regulators to encourage the efficient development of aggregators while eliminating the potential for economic inefficiencies through opportunistic aggregation.
The aggregation of economic and social indicators suggest that Australians and Western Australians in particular have prospered, but closer examination shows that there are "haves" and "have nots" and the gaps are in fact widening, depending upon people's access to the wealth generated by the resources boom.
For the municipalities of less than 5000 inhabitants, from an economic point of view the aggregation is always advantageous.
Even though conflicts tend to dissipate in the long-run according to Ruhwinkels' (2013) goal congruence of the three sustainability dimensions on a high aggregation level, an economic valuation is indispensable in accordance with value-based management as guiding principle.
The economic and environmental convenience of the aggregation diminishes with the size of the municipalities: for less than 4000 inhabitants, the aggregation was almost always advantageous (91.7%); while, for more than or equal to 5000 inhabitants, the aggregation was convenient only in 33.3% of the cases.
The reason is that further aggregation is not recommended from an economic viewpoint (although data availability often necessitates one to aggregate further).
For purposes of economic interpretation, it is desirable to have an aggregation of S, which should be quasi-surely defined as a single process.
# Contextual measures were derived using postal code information, from which indices at the relevant level of aggregation could be geocoded; SEIFA, Socio-Economic Indexes for Areas; LGA, Local government area.
