Urban water conflicts
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| Format: | Electronic |
| Language: | English |
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Boca Raton : Paris, France :
CRC Press ; UNESCO,
2011.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: | Urban water series ;
v. 7. |
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| Online Access: | Distributed by publisher. Purchase or institutional license may be required for access. |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Urban water conflicts : background and conceptual framework
- 2. Urban water conflicts in recent European history : changing interactions between technology, environment and society
- 3. Water, public responsibility and equity : the Barcelona 'water war' of the 1990s
- 4. Full circle? Public responsibility versus privatization of water supplies in the United States
- 5. Public-private partnership in courts : the rise and fall of concessions to supply drinking water in France (1875-1928)
- 6. In search of (hidden) Portuguese urban water conflicts : the Lisbon water story (1856-2006)
- 7. Water supply services in the cities of Brazil : conflicts, challenges and new opportunities in regulation
- 8. Urban water conflicts in Buenos Aires : voices questioning the sustainability of the water and sewerage concession
- 9. In search of meaningful interdisciplinarity : understanding urban water conflict in Mexico
- 10. Conflict versus cooperation between the state and civil society : a water-demand management comparison between Cape Town and Johannesburg, South Africa
- 11. Conflicts of influence and competing models : the boom in community-based privatization of water services in sub-Saharan Africa
- 12. Governance failure : urban water and conflict in Jakarta, Indonesia
- 13. Man-made scarcity, unsustainability and urban water conflicts in Indian cities
- 14. Urban water conflicts in the western U.S.
- 15. Urban water reform in Italy : a live bomb behind outward unanimity
- 16. Water infrastructures between commercialization and shrinking : the case of Eastern Germany
- 17. Urban water conflicts and sustainability : an ecological-economic approach.