Water on Tap
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Water on Tap

Rights and Regulation in the Transnational Governance of Urban Water Services

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Water on Tap

Rights and Regulation in the Transnational Governance of Urban Water Services

About this book

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.

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Information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2011
Print ISBN
9781107008946
eBook ISBN
9781139066358
Topic
Jura
Subtopic
Öffentliches Recht

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Series-title
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents
  8. Figures
  9. Tables
  10. Acknowledgements
  11. Introduction: The field of global water policy: struggles over redistribution and recognition
  12. 1 Rights, regulation and disputing: a conflict-centred approach to transnational governance
  13. 2 Managed liberalisation and the dual face of French water services provision
  14. 3 ‘Another world is possible’: Bolivia and the emergence of a participatory public provision model for access to urban water services
  15. 4 Regulatory arbitrage and popcorn politics: contrasting disputing pathways in Argentina and Chile
  16. 5 Moonlight plumbers in comparative perspective: electoral v. constitutional politics of access to water in South Africa and New Zealand
  17. 6 Law’s work: legality and identity in transnational spaces
  18. Epilogue
  19. References
  20. Index