Water on tap : rights and regulation in the transnational governance of urban water services / Bronwen Morgan
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TextPublication details: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011Description: xiii, 226p. 23cmISBN: - 9781107008946
- 363.61 MOR
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In the 1990s and mid 2000s, turbulent political and social protests surrounded the issue of private sector involvement in providing urban water services in both the developed and developing world. This book explores examples of such conflicts in six national settings (France, Bolivia, Chile, Argentina, South Africa and New Zealand), focusing on a central question: how were rights and regulation mobilized to address the demands of redistribution and recognition? Two modes of governance emerged: managed liberalization and participatory democracy, often in hybrid forms that complicated simple oppositions between public and private, commodity and human right. The book examine the effects of transnational and domestic regulatory frameworks shaping the provision of urban water services, bilateral investment treaties and the contributions of non-state actors.
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