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This handbook provides a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview
of urban water governance. Of the many growing challenges presented
by rapid urbanization, water governance is a critical one and while
urban water governance is now regarded as a critical field of
research, the literature is fragmented. For the first time, this
handbook brings together urban water governance research,
containing interdisciplinary contributions from established and
emerging scholars, practitioners, and policymakers. It addresses
the key questions of how urban water governance works, how is it
shaped, and what the impacts are. The handbook's structure offers a
progressive entry into the complexity of urban water governance.
Starting with technical dimensions, the handbook addresses supply
and demand, wastewater, and sanitation. It then considers
regulation and economic factors, examining water utilities and
services. Political processes, and the actors involved, are
addressed and the handbook finishes with a part focusing on
governance and sustainability, where chapters address critically
important topics such as access to water, water safety, and water
security. This handbook is essential reading for students,
scholars, and professionals interested in urban water governance,
urban studies, and water resource management and sustainability
more broadly.
This book describes the impact of modernization on the organization
and sustainability of Urban Water Systems in Europe (UWSEs).
Bolognesi explains that the modernization of UWSEs was a regulatory
shock that began in the 1990s and was put into action with the EU
Water Framework Directive in the year 2000. This process sought to
reorganize water governance in order to achieve certain
sustainability goals, but it fell short of expectations.
Modernization and Urban Water Governance provides an update on the
organization and sustainability of UWSEs, while drawing from a
comparative analysis of German, French, and English water models
and an institutionalist explanation of the current situation. With
a focus on transaction costs, property rights allocation and
institutional environments, this book argues that the modernization
of UWSEs tends to depoliticize these systems and make them more
resilient but also limits their potential for sustainable
management. This book will be relevant to those wishing to
understand the real impacts of water reform in Europe according to
national contingencies.
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