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About this book
Urban water conflicts manifested first in Europe in the 19th century and are observed nowadays in various forms throughout the world; in particular, in developing countries. Main causes of these conflicts are characterized by complex socioeconomic and institutional issues related to urban water management. The debate about public water services ver
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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Foreword
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Boxes
- List of Acronyms
- Glossary
- List of Contributors
- Introduction
- 1. Urban water conflicts: Background and conceptual framework
- 2. Urban water conflicts in recent European history: Changing interactions between technology, environment and society
- 3. Water, public responsibility and equity: The Barcelona 'water war' of the 1990s
- 4. Full circle? Public responsibility versus privatization of water supplies in the United States
- 5. Public-private partnership in courts: The rise and fall of concessions to supply drinking water in France (1875–1928)
- 6. In search of (hidden) Portuguese urban water conflicts: The Lisbon water story (1856–2006)
- 7. Water supply services in the cities of Brazil: Conflicts, challenges and new opportunities in regulation
- 8. Urban water conflicts in Buenos Aires: Voices questioning the sustainability of the water and sewerage concession
- 9. In search of meaningful interdisciplinarity: Understanding urban water conflicts in Mexico
- 10. Conflict versus cooperation between the state and civil society: A water-demand management comparison between Cape Town and Johannesburg, South Africa
- 11. Conflicts of influence and competing models: The boom in community-based privatization of water services in sub-Saharan Africa
- 12. Governance failure: Urban water and conflict in Jakarta, Indonesia
- 13. Man-made scarcity, unsustainability and urban water conflicts in Indian cities
- 14. Urban water conflicts in the western US
- 15. Urban water reform in Italy: A live bomb behind outward unanimity
- 16. Water infrastructures between commercialization and shrinking: The case of Eastern Germany
- 17. Urban water conflicts and sustainability: An ecological-economic approach