Water And Liberalisation

Author : Matthias Finger,Jeremy Allouche,Patricia Luis-Manso
Publisher : IWA Publishing
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781843391135

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Water and Liberalisation by Matthias Finger,Jeremy Allouche,Patricia Luis-Manso Pdf

In most network industries, new dynamics are leading to an unprecedented opening up to competition and private sector participation. With the development of a single European market, the in-stages liberalisation process of public utilities has spread to almost all sectors. However, the water supply and sanitation (WSS) sector is considered somehow different and it has been excluded until recently from the restructuring processes achieved in other sectors. Water and Liberalisation: European Water Scenarios presents a better understanding of the specific demands of the WSS sector. Covering the operators' strategies, the regulatory dynamics as well as their interactions on the evolution of the sector, it addresses the likelihood, the nature, and the forms the WSS sector may take in Europe in the foreseeable future. Adopting a neutral political stance, the book analyses the implications of alternative scenarios in economic, ecological, social, legal, and institutional terms. Key sections include: In depth introduction to the current situation in the WSS sector; The European water supply and sanitation markets; The institutional framework of the water supply and sanitation sector in the EU: a comparative analysis; Analysis of the EU explicit and implicit policies and approaches in the sector; Analysis of the strategies of the water operators in Europe scenarios on the evolution of the water sector in Europe; Economic, environmental, & social implications of the scenarios; Major implications per scenario.

Author : Mary M. Shirley
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780080440774

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Thirsting for Efficiency by Mary M. Shirley Pdf

By analyzing water supply reforms in six developing country's capitals, this text provides a legal, economic and political examination of countries, tolerant of mismanagement of their water and sewerage systems for decades, that suddenly develop a thirst for efficiency.

Author : Edith Brown Weiss,Laurence Boisson de Chazournes,Nathalie Bernasconi-Osterwalder
Publisher : International Economic Law
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0199274673

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Fresh Water and International Economic Law by Edith Brown Weiss,Laurence Boisson de Chazournes,Nathalie Bernasconi-Osterwalder Pdf

This book addresses the key interdisciplinary issues that increasingly confront policy makers, tribunals, arbitration bodies and other institutions. It focuses primarily on law, but also includes perspectives from economics, political science and other disciplines.

Author : Roberta Greco
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 8892133519

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The Human Right to Water and International Economic Law by Roberta Greco Pdf

Author : Marco Schouten
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2009-12-18
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781439873922

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Strategy and Performance of Water Supply and Sanitation Providers by Marco Schouten Pdf

The continuous growth in the demand for water supply and sanitation services has posed decision makers with the challenge to discover new, and to adapt existing, institutions. Since the last two decades, the most prominent institutional change for the water and sanitation sector is neo-liberalism. Neo-liberalism manifests itself in the water sector through privatization, private sector involvement and liberalisation. This book analyses whether neo-liberalism has had an effect on the institutions, the strategies, and the performances of water providers. Strategies are interpreted through what a water provider can do (strategic context), wants to do (strategic plans), and actually does (strategic actions). On the basis of studies in the Netherlands, the Netherlands Antilles, the United Kingdom and Italy, the book concludes that neo-liberal institutional changes matter for the strategies of water providers. However, it also finds that the inherent problems with performance interpretation, measurement and comparison obscure any accurate insight in the effect of neo-liberal institutional changes on performance. In this regard the book opens a window for research both on the relation between institutions and conduct, and between conduct and performance of water and sanitation providers.

Author : Barnali Choudhury
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107026568

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Public Services and International Trade Liberalization by Barnali Choudhury Pdf

This books examines whether public service liberalization poses a threat to gender and human rights?

Author : Matthias Finger,Christian Jaag
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317668084

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The Routledge Companion to Network Industries by Matthias Finger,Christian Jaag Pdf

In recent decades, network industries around the world have gone through periods of de- and re-regulation. With vast amounts of sometimes conflicting research carried out into specific network industries, the time has come for a critical over-arching assessment of this entire industry in order to provide a platform of understanding to aid future research and practice. This comprehensive resource provides an orientation for academics, policy makers and managers as to the main economic, regulatory and commercial challenges in the network industries. The book is split into sections covering market, policy, regulation, management perspectives, whilst all of the key network industries are covered, including energy, transport, water and telecommunications. Overseen by world-class Editors and experts in the field, this inter-disciplinary resource is essential reading for students and researchers in international business, industrial economics and the industries.

Author : Massimo Florio
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780191662508

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Network Industries and Social Welfare by Massimo Florio Pdf

A dramatic change of ownership, regulation, and organisation of essential public services, such as electricity, gas, and telecommunications, has taken place in Europe in less than 20 years. This was not the outcome of spontaneous adaptation, but an entirely top-down policy experiment, mainly conceived in London during Mrs Thatcher's years, then pursued in Brussels - the 'capital' of the European Union - and imposed on more or less reluctant players by laws, directives, regulations, and administrative and judicial decisions. The European reform paradigm revolves around three pillars: privatisation, unbundling, and regulated liberalisation of network industries. These industries, despite the reforms, are still special, as they include core natural monopoly components (the electricity grid, the gas pipelines, the telephony networks, etc.), are often based on complex system integration of different segments (for example of electricity generation, transmission, distribution and retail supply), and offer services that have critical social and economic importance, from heating to internet. This book offers a careful scrutiny of energy and telephony reforms and prices paid by households in 15 countries across Western Europe. It attempts to answer such questions as: Are the consumers in Europe happier than they were before the reforms? Do they pay less? Do they get a better quality for the services? Network Industries and Social Welfare provides an overview of the main facts, the conceptual issues, and of the empirical evidence on pricing, perceptions of quality of service, and the issues of utility poverty and social affordability. It suggests that the benefits of the reforms for the consumers have often been limited and that governments should reconsider their overconfidence in regulated market mechanisms in network industries.

Author : Nanny Bressers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317000181

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Water Governance as Connective Capacity by Nanny Bressers Pdf

Water is becoming one of the world's most crucial concerns. A third of the world's population has severe water shortage, while three quarters of the global population lives in deltas which run the risk of severe flooding. In addition, many more face problems of poor water quality. While it is apparent that drastic action should be taken, in reality, water problems are complex and not at all easy to resolve. There are many stakeholders involved - industries, local municipalities, farmers, the recreational sector, environmental organisations, and others - who all approach the problems and possible solutions differently. This requires delicate ways of governing multi-actor processes. This book approaches the concept of 'water management' from an interdisciplinary and non-technical, but governance orientation. It departs from the fragmented nature of water management, showing how these lack cooperation, joint responsibility and integration and instead argues that the capacity to connect to other domains, levels, scales, organizations and actors is of utmost importance. Connective capacity revolves around connecting arrangements (such as institutions), actors (for instance individuals) and approaches (such as instruments). These three carriers of connectedness can be applied to different focal points (the objects of fragmentation and integration in water management). The book distinguishes five different focal points: (1) government layers and levels; (2) sectors and domains; (3) time orientation of the long and the short term; (4) perceptions and actor frames; (5) public and private spheres. Each contributor pays attention to a specific combination of one focal point and one connective carrier. Bringing together case studies from countries including The Netherlands, United Kingdom, Romania, Sweden, Finland, Italy, India, Canada and the United States, the book focuses on the question of how to deal with the various sources of fragmentation in water governance by organizing meaningful connections and developing 'connective capacity'. In doing so, it provides useful scientific and practical insights into how 'connective capacity' in water governance can be enhanced.

Author : R.K. Turner,I. J. Bateman,W.N. Adger
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789401597555

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Economics of Coastal and Water Resources: Valuing Environmental Functions by R.K. Turner,I. J. Bateman,W.N. Adger Pdf

Most of the chapters in this volume are authored by staff or associates of the Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment (CSERGE). CSERGE is a research centre sponsored by the UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), which specialises in interdisciplinary work focussed on environmental management issues. Weare grateful for the long term support that we have received from the ESRC. We would also like to acknowledge the efforts of Ann Dixon and SHin Pearce in the preparation of this volume. vii INTRODUCTION CHAPTER 1. ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS AND COASTAL ZONE ECOSYSTEMS' VALUES: AN OVERVIEW. Turner, R. K. , Bateman, I. J. and Adger, W. N. 1. 1 Coastal zone pressure and sustainable management challenges Given the continued intensification of the process of globalisation - involving population growth, population density changes via urbanisation, industrial development, increased trade and capital flows, liberalisation of transnational corporation activity and lifestyle and attitudinal changes - coastal zones and their hydrologically linked catchment areas have come under heavy environmental pressure. The scale and extent of socio-economic activities have profound implications for the now coevolving natural and human systems and their complex interrelationships (Turner, Perrings and Folke, 1997). The consequences of this process of change manifest themselves across a range of spatial and temporal scales. Indeed the juxtaposition of different spatial, functional and temporal scales that is inherent in the catchment-coastal ecosystems-seas/oceans continuum poses particularly difficult challenges for both science and resource management/governance.

Author : Salvatore Valenti
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000721027

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Water in the Making of a Socio-Natural Landscape by Salvatore Valenti Pdf

How would the history of an urban area look if water were at the center of analysis? Water in the Making of a Socio-Natural Landscape explores the transition from early modern to modern water management in late nineteenth-century Rome. It merges local water management with national water policies aimed at promoting irrigated agriculture, industrial processes, and public health. It investigates perceptions and conceptualisations of water, changes in the water law, engineering projects, medical knowledge and practices, value of water in different productions, and needs and uses of local stakeholders. From which derives that water infrastructures are the complex outcome of the clash between different users and uses of water as well as the dynamic interaction between different levels of power. In this book, it builds upon Maria Kaika’s Cities of flows and Erik Swyngedouw’s Liquid power to introduce a new dimension to the analysis of urban water: the interaction among the three main uses of water: drinking, agriculture, and industry. Water in the Making of a Socio-Natural Landscape is written for a specialist readership with an interest in environmental and urban history and science and technology studies, but it can also be used by graduate and PhD students.

Author : Rao, Prakash,Patil, Yogesh
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781522510475

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Reconsidering the Impact of Climate Change on Global Water Supply, Use, and Management by Rao, Prakash,Patil, Yogesh Pdf

Changes in the planet’s climate in recent years have led to significant impacts on natural resources and ecosystems. New strategies must be adopted in order to support the protection and continued development of numerous natural resources. Reconsidering the Impact of Climate Change on Global Water Supply, Use, and Management is a pivotal reference source for the latest scholarly material on the relationship between global climate changes and the planet’s water ecosystems. Highlighting relevant environmental, social, and economic issues, this book is ideally designed for academics, researchers, policy makers, students, and practitioners interested in the impacts of climate change on global water resources.

Author : Marco Schouten
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-15
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0415551293

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Strategy and Performance of Water Supply and Sanitation Providers by Marco Schouten Pdf

The continuous growth in the demand for water supply and sanitation services has posed decision makers with the challenge to discover new, and to adapt existing, institutions. Since the last two decades, the most prominent institutional change for the water and sanitation sector is neo-liberalism. Neo-liberalism manifests itself in the water sector through privatization, private sector involvement and liberalisation. This book analyses whether neo-liberalism has had an effect on the institutions, the strategies, and the performances of water providers. Strategies are interpreted through what a water provider can do (strategic context), wants to do (strategic plans), and actually does (strategic actions). On the basis of studies in the Netherlands, the Netherlands Antilles, the United Kingdom and Italy, the book concludes that neo-liberal institutional changes matter for the strategies of water providers. However, it also finds that the inherent problems with performance interpretation, measurement and comparison obscure any accurate insight in the effect of neo-liberal institutional changes on performance. In this regard the book opens a window for research both on the relation between institutions and conduct, and between conduct and performance of water and sanitation providers.

Author : Joseph E. Stiglitz,José Antonio Ocampo
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2008-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199230587

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Capital Market Liberalization and Development by Joseph E. Stiglitz,José Antonio Ocampo Pdf

Capital market liberalization has been a key part of the ongoing debate on globalization. Bringing together leading researchers and practitioners in the field, this book provides a unique analysis of both the risks associated with capital market liberalization and the alternative policy options available to enhance macroeconomic management.

Author : Andreas Bieler
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781786997746

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Fighting for Water by Andreas Bieler Pdf

In the wake of the global financial crisis, water services have come under renewed neoliberal assault across Europe. At the same time, the struggle against water privatization has continued to pick up pace; from the re-municipalization of water in Grenoble in 2000, to the United Nations declaration of water as a human right in 2010. In Fighting for Water, Andreas Bieler draws on years of extensive fieldwork to dissect the underlying dynamics of the struggle for public water in Europe. By analysing the successful referendum against water privatization in Italy, the European Citizens' Initiative on 'Water and Sanitation are a Human Right', the struggles against water privatization in Greece and water charges in Ireland, Bieler shows why water has been a fruitful arena for resistance against neoliberal restructuring.