Water on tap [electronic resource] : rights and regulation in the transnational governance of urban water services / Bronwen Morgan.

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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, Arg...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Cambridge studies in law and society.
Main Author: Morgan, Bronwen, 1966-
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Series:Cambridge studies in law and society.
Subjects:
Water utilities > Law and legislation.
International business enterprises > Law and legislation.
Privatization > Law and legislation.
Right to water.
Online Access:
ProQuest Ebook Central - Academic Complete: 2011 (Ebook Central @ Proquest)
EBSCO eBooks: 2011 (EBSCO)
eBook Academic Collection (EBSCOhost) – North America: 2011 (EBSCO)
Variant Title:
Water on Tap: Rights and Regulation in the Transnational Governance of Urban Water Services
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • Introduction : the field of global water policy : struggles over redistribution and recognition
  • Rights, regulation and disputing : a conflict-centred approach to transnational governance
  • Managed liberalisation and the dual faces of French water services provision
  • 'Another world is possible' : Bolivia and the emergence of a participatory public provision model for access to urban water services
  • Regulatory arbitrage and popcorn politics : contrasting disputing pathways in Argentina and Chile
  • Moonlight plumbers in comparative perspective : electoral v. constitutional politics of access to water in South Africa and New Zealand
  • Law's work : legality and identity in transnational spaces.