Water Regimes: Beyond the Public and Private Sector Debate

ISBN-13: 9780367227630 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 228 str.

Dominique Lorrain; Franck Poupeau

Opis

This book goes beyond the ideology of the public versus private water regime debate, by focusing on the results of these types of initiatives to provide better water services, particularly in urban settings.

Recenzje

"With its clear focus on the ultimate policy objective of water for all and the practices that lead to the achievement of this goal, Lorrain and Poupeau’s book offers rich insights as well as inspiration for the future research agenda." - Olivia Jensen in Water Alternatives, 2019

Spis treści

Introduction: What do the Protagonists of the Water Sector Do?  Dominique Lorrain and Franck Poupeau  Part 1: Unorthodox Models and Practices  1. "The Embedded Actor": A Water Joint-venture in Chongqing  Dominique Lorrain  2. "Delivering More than Water". The Salt River Project: the Invention of an Adaptive Partnership for Water Management  Murielle Coeurdray, Franck Poupeau, Brian O’Neill and Joan Cortinas  Part 2: Questions of Legitimacy: Private Interventions in a Public Service  3. Legitimacy in the Test of Time: Operating Water in Buenos Aires  Bernard de Gouvello  4. Water in Paris: Polity and Politics  Dominique Lorrain  5. The Partial Privatization of the Berlin Water Company  Thomas Blanchet  6. Corporate Social Responsibility and Public Service Management in Nagpur  Marie-Hélène Zérah and Cécile Renouard  Part 3: When Small Water Systems meet the Large Technical System  7. A Local Public Service: the Action of Small-scale Private Water Providers to Supply Peripheral Neighbourhoods in Three African Cities  Sarah Botton and Aymeric Blanc  8. Cooperatives in La Paz and El Alto: A Complementary System  Sébastien Hardy and Franck Poupeau  9. The Decentralization of Supply in Four Uttar Pradesh Municipalities  Rémi de Bercegol and Shankare Gowda  10. Water Disputes in Soweto. Inequalities, Social Mobilisations and Recourse to the Law  Julie Aubriot  Part 4: Conclusion  11. Lessons drawn from the Practices of Operators  Dominique Lorrain and Franck Poupeau

O autorze

Dominique Lorrain is Director of Research (emeritus) at CNRS, Latts, Ecole des Ponts ParisTech, Paris, France. 

Franck Poupeau is a Director of Research at CNRS and Director of the International Joint Center iGLOBES, based at the University of Arizona, USA.