عنوان

Water on tap :

(Number (ISBN

1107008948 (hardback)

(Number (ISBN

9781107008946 (hardback)

Number

b519795

Title Proper

Water on tap :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

rights and regulation in the transnational governance of urban water services /

First Statement of Responsibility

Bronwen Morgan

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Cambridge University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2011

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xiii, 226 p. :

Other Physical Details

ill. ;

Dimensions

24 cm

Series Title

Cambridge studies in law and society

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

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Machine generated contents note: Introduction: the field of global water policy : struggles over redistribution and recognition; 1. Rights, regulation and disputing : a conflict-centred approach to transnational governance; 2. Managed liberalisation and the dual faces of French water services provision; 3. 'Another world is possible' : Bolivia and the emergence of a participatory public provision model for access to urban water services; 4. Regulatory arbitrage and popcorn politics : contrasting disputing pathways in Argentina and Chile; 5. Moonlight plumbers in comparative perspective : electoral vs constitutional politics of access to water in South Africa and New Zealand; 6. Law's work : legality and identity in transnational spaces; Epilogue: closing words

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"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"--

International business enterprises-- Law and legislation

Privatization-- Law and legislation

Right to water

Water utilities-- Law and legislation

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Edition

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Book number

Morgan, Bronwen,1966-

Date of Transaction

20110624073315.0

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[Book]

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