TY  - BOOK
AU  - Morgan,Bronwen
TI  - Water on tap: rights and regulation in the transnational governance of urban water services 
SN  - 9781107008946
U1  - 363.61 
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - International business enterprises
KW  - Law and legislation
KW  - Privatisation
KW  - Water utilities
KW  - Law and regualtion
N1  - 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
ER  -