Water on Tap - Rights and Regulation in the Transnational Governance of Urban Water Services (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
Release date:	April 2011
First published:	2011
Authors:	Bronwen Morgan
Dimensions:	234 x 157 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	240
ISBN-13:	978-1-107-00894-6
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Comparative politics Books > Law > International law > Public international law > International environmental law Books > Law > Laws of other jurisdictions & general law > Constitutional & administrative law > General Books > Earth & environment > Earth sciences > The hydrosphere > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political control & freedoms > Human rights > General Promotions
LSN:	1-107-00894-8
Barcode:	9781107008946

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