Against the Current: Privatization, Water Markets, and the State in Chile - Couverture rigide

Bauer, Carl J.

 
9780792382270: Against the Current: Privatization, Water Markets, and the State in Chile
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0792382277 ISBN 13 : 9780792382270
Editeur : Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1998

Synopsis

In 1981 Chile's military government dictated a new Water Code that radically changed the country's previous water rights system by strengthening private property rights, favoring market incentives, and reducing state regulation. Against the Current: Privatization, Water Markets, and the State in Chile is the first empirical and interdisciplinary study of water markets in Chile, which is the leading international example of free market water policies.
Against the Current: Privatization, Water Markets, and the State in Chile challenges the glowing reports given by neoliberals in Chile and the World Bank, showing that the results of this economic experiment have actually been rather mixed. Within the agricultural sector the Water Code has worked fairly well, although the market incentives to conserve water have been ineffective and water rights trading has been less active than expected. The Code's impact has been more negative at the level of river basins, where the institutional framework has revealed critical flaws in coordinating multiple water users and resolving conflicts.
Against the Current: Privatization, Water Markets, and the State in Chile combines law, political economy, and geography to analyze the disadvantages, problems, and wider contexts of water markets. This book will appeal to everyone interested in property rights, market-friendly environmental policies, the political economy of sustainable development, and the intersection of economics with law and institutions.

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Éditeur
Kluwer Academic Publishers
Date d'édition
1998
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0792382277
ISBN 13 
9780792382270
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
182
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