Against the Current: Privatization, Water Markets, and the State in Chile (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1998)

In 1981 Chile's military government dictated a new Water Code that radically changed the country's previous water rights system by strengthening private property rights, favoring market incentives, and reducing state regulation. Against the Current: Privatization, Water Markets, and the State in Chile is the first empirical and interdisciplinary study of water markets in Chile, which is the leading international example of free market water policies. Against the Current: Privatization, Water Markets, and the State in Chile challenges the glowing reports given by neoliberals in Chile and the World Bank, showing that the results of this economic experiment have actually been rather mixed. Within the agricultural sector the Water Code has worked fairly well, although the market incentives to conserve water have been ineffective and water rights trading has been less active than expected. The Code's impact has been more negative at the level of river basins, where the institutional framework has revealed critical flaws in coordinating multiple water users and resolving conflicts. Against the Current: Privatization, Water Markets, and the State in Chile combines law, political economy, and geography to analyze the disadvantages, problems, and wider contexts of water markets. This book will appeal to everyone interested in property rights, market-friendly environmental policies, the political economy of sustainable development, and the intersection of economics with law and institutions.

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag New York
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Natural Resource Management and Policy, 14
Release date:	March 2013
First published:	1998
Authors:	Carl J. Bauer
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 9mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	164
Edition:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1998
ISBN-13:	978-1-4613-7942-3
Categories:	Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Management of land & natural resources Books > Earth & environment > Earth sciences > The hydrosphere > General Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Environmental economics > General Books > Earth & environment > Earth sciences > Geology & the lithosphere > Economic geology > General Promotions
LSN:	1-4613-7942-3
Barcode:	9781461379423

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