[Mobile library] Privatizing Water: Governance Failure and the World's Urban Water Crisis
▲ Karen Bakker ▲
| #433868 in Books | Bakker Karen J | 2010-10-14 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.94 x.86 x6.12l,.98 | File Name: 0801474647 | 296 pages | Privatizing Water Governance Failure and the World s Urban Water Crisis
||1 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Textbook|By Chale|A different approach to looking at the current (at the time of the writing) issues surrounding the issue of water access and privatization.|||"Is water, arguably the most basic of human needs, the final frontier for capitalism? Is market governance of water nothing more than green imperialism? Karen Bakker's Privatizing Water bravely and provocatively takes on the state and private models
Water supply privatization was emblematic of the neoliberal turn in development policy in the 1990s. Proponents argued that the private sector could provide better services at lower costs than governments; opponents questioned the risks involved in delegating control over a life-sustaining resource to for-profit companies. Private-sector activity was most concentrated―and contested―in large cities in developing countries, where the widespread lack of access to ne...
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