Urban water conflicts

Front Cover......Page 1
Foreword......Page 6
Contents......Page 8
List of Figures......Page 14
List of Tables......Page 16
List of Boxes......Page 18
List of Acronyms......Page 20
Glossary......Page 24
List of Contributors......Page 28
Introduction......Page 32
1. Urban water conflicts: Background and conceptual framework......Page 34
2. Urban water conflicts in recent European history: Changing interactions between technology, environment and society......Page 48
3. Water, public responsibility and equity: The Barcelona 'water war' of the 1990s......Page 66
4. Full circle? Public responsibility versus privatization of water supplies in the United States......Page 72
5. Public-private partnership in courts: The rise and fall of concessions to supply drinking water in France (1875–1928)......Page 90
6. In search of (hidden) Portuguese urban water conflicts: The Lisbon water story (1856–2006)......Page 102
7. Water supply services in the cities of Brazil: Conflicts, challenges and new opportunities in regulation......Page 126
8. Urban water conflicts in Buenos Aires: Voices questioning the sustainability of the water and sewerage concession......Page 144
9. In search of meaningful interdisciplinarity: Understanding urban water conflicts in Mexico......Page 162
10. Conflict versus cooperation between the state and civil society: A water-demand management comparison between Cape Town and Johannesburg, South Africa......Page 180
11. Conflicts of influence and competing models: The boom in community-based privatization of water services in sub-Saharan Africa......Page 202
12. Governance failure: Urban water and conflict in Jakarta, Indonesia......Page 228
13. Man-made scarcity, unsustainability and urban water conflicts in Indian cities......Page 254
14. Urban water conflicts in the western US......Page 270
15. Urban water reform in Italy: A live bomb behind outward unanimity......Page 280
16. Water infrastructures between commercialization and shrinking: The case of Eastern Germany......Page 302
17. Urban water conflicts and sustainability: An ecological-economic approach......Page 318
REFERENCES......Page 341