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Water Remunicipalisation: Between Pendulum Swings and Paradigm Advocacy [PDF]
, 2016 This chapter considers whether remunicipalisation – the return of water services to public ownership and management following the termination of private operating contracts – has a role to play in the future of the urban water sector. It does so by looking at the process of remunicipalisation in Berlin, Germany and Buenos Aires, Argentina. Attention is
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Offshoring the Nation's water [PDF]
, 2016 When the ten regional water authorities in England and Wales were floated on the London Stock Exchange in 1989, a shift in ownership inevitably followed from the privatization of household water.
Allen, John, Pryke, Michael
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Our public water future: The global experience with remunicipalisation [PDF]
, 2015 This book provides a comprehensive catalogue of water remunicipalisation cases. Water remunicipalisation is a global trend that has emerged in the last 15 years, contradicting neoliberal theorists, international financial institutions, and their ...
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Making sense of remunicipalisation: theoretical reflections on and political possibilities from Germany’s Rekommumalisierung process [PDF]
Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, 2018 The increasingly discussed phenomenon of ‘remunicipalisation’ marks a global trend since 2000 for cities to take formerly privatised assets, infrastructure and services back into public ownership. It is most prominent in basic service sectors such as water and energy, but it is also evident in a range of diverse utility and infrastructure areas—from ...
Cumbers, Andrew, Becker, Sören
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Waste management companies in Europe 2007 [PDF]
, 2007 The paper reviews the international companies operating in the waste sector in Europe and recent trends in patterns of ownership, including private ...
Hall, David
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A Political Economy of Privatization Contracts : The Case of Water and Sanitation in Ghana and Argentina [PDF]
, 2014 This document is the Accepted Manuscript version of the following article: Hulya Dagdeviren, Simon A. Robertson, 'A Political Economy of Privatization Contracts: The Case of Water and Sanitation in Ghana and Argentina', Competition & Change, Vol. 18 (2):
Alchian A.A. +11 more
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Commentary: the perils and promise of inter-paradigmatic dialogues on remunicipalisation
Journal of Economic Policy Reform, 2020 Many epistemological perils of inter-paradigmatic dialogues originate from the ontological divides between schools of thought. Seeing through these cultural barriers does however offer the promise of inter-paradigmatic learning. This paper aims to suggest some basic conditions for seizing the learning opportunities that come from the competition ...
Lobina, Emanuele, Weghmann, Vera
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, 2008 An overview of trends in the water sector in Europe and the companies ...
Hall, David, Lobina, Emanuele
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Water Alternatives, 2019 Aiming to advance our understanding of the transformative potential of remunicipalisation, this paper looks at the uncertain and unequal struggle for water remunicipalisation in Jakarta over the last 20 years, and offers an ontological account of the ...
Emanuele Lobina +2 more
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International Journal of the CommonsIn light of national and regional EU agendas favouring water privatization under forms of neoliberal technocracy, water movements have emerged to contest this paradigm by reframing water as a common good and demanding remunicipalisation (reclaiming ...
Dona Geagea, Maria Francesca De Tullio
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