Water on Tap: Rights And Regulation In The Transnational Governance Of Urban Water Services - Couverture souple

Morgan, Bronwen

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1107411831 ISBN 13 : 9781107411838

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2012

Synopsis

This exploration of local and global conflicts over access to water provides a socio-legal perspective on transnational governance.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

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 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 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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1107411831
• ISBN 13: 9781107411838
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 244
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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