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Water on tap : rights and regulation in the transnational governance of urban water services /
"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. Water on Tap explores examples of such conflicts in six national settings (France, Bolivia, Chile...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2011.
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| Colección: | Cambridge studies in law and society.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "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. Water on Tap 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 mobilised to address the demands of redistribution and recognition? Two modes of governance emerged: managed liberalisation and participatory democracy, often in hybrid forms that complicated simple oppositions between public and private, commodity and human right. The case studies 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 such as transnational corporations, civil society organisations and social movement activists. The conceptual framework developed can be applied to a wide range of transnational governance contexts"-- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiii, 226 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781139078948 1139078941 1139081217 9781139081214 9780511974823 0511974825 1107411831 9781107411838 1139064142 9781139064149 1107222052 9781107222052 1283112892 9781283112895 9786613112897 6613112895 1139076663 9781139076661 1139083481 9781139083485 1139070940 9781139070942 |