Water on Tap - Rights Regulation in Transnational Governance of Urban Water

Klappentext This exploration of local and global conflicts over access to water provides a socio-legal perspective on transnational governance. Zusammenfassung Focused on the turbulent upheavals of the 1990s and mid-2000s! this socio-legal exploration of the politics of urban water services assesses two modes of governance - managed liberalization and participatory democracy - that reflect tensions between water viewed as a scarce commodity and as an essential public good. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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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• Authors: Bronwen Morgan, Bronwen (University of Bristol) Morgan, Bronwen (University of New South Wales Morgan, Morgan Bronwen
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.12.2012
• EAN: 9781107411838
• ISBN: 978-1-107-41183-8
• No. of pages: 244
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Law and Society; Cambridge Studies in Law and S; Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Public law, administrative procedural law, constitutional procedural law; Human Rights, LAW / Constitutional, Comparative Politics, Hydrology & the hydrosphere, International Environmental Law, Energy industries and utilities, Constitutional & administrative law, Constitutional and administrative law: general