Re-scaling IPE : local government, sustainable energy & change [PDF]
Sustainable energy has emerged as a new area of policy, in part as a response to greater political acceptance of the need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Kuzemko, Caroline
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Power asymmetries and limits to eminent domain: The case of Missoula water’s municipalisation
In 2017, the City of Missoula, Montana, in the western United States, successfully used its powers of eminent domain to take ownership of its water system from The Carlyle Group, a large international private equity firm.
Cory L. Mann, Mildred E. Warner
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Alternatives to PPPs: positive action for in-house services [PDF]
The paper reviews empirical examples of policies and approaches for developing public services through public sector provision and direct employment, in the context of EU ...
Hall, David
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Fighting for public water: the first successful European Citizens’ Initiative, “Water and Sanitation are a Human Right” [PDF]
Between May 2012 and September 2013 the European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI) ‘Water and Sanitation are a Human Right’ successfully collected close to 1.9 million signatures across the European Union (EU), forcing the Commission into an official position ...
Bieler, Andreas
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Which way will the winds blow? Post-privatisation water struggles in Sofia, Bulgaria
The collapse of the Soviet Union in the 1990s gave rise to widespread experimentation with neoliberal policy across much of the former Soviet sphere of influence.
Georgi Medarov, David A. McDonald
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Solidarité intercommunale. Partager richesse et pauvreté ?: Note de synthèse [PDF]
L'intercommunalité fait l'objet - surtout depuis la décennie 1990 et dans le prolongement des deux lois majeures que sont la loi ATR et la loi Chevènement - de nombreuses études, rapports et autres analyses menés pour une bonne part dans une perspective ...
Benchendikh, François +4 more
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Political Economy and Research Silos: A Response to the Recent Commentaries. [PDF]
Lacy-Nichols J, Williams O.
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Water remunicipalisation: Between pendulum swings and paradigm advocacy [PDF]
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.
Lobina, Emanuele
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PPPs and the SDGs: Don’t believe the hype [PDF]
The advent of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has prompted Public-Private Partnership (PPP) advocates to launch a renewed push for their use in providing network and social infrastructure and services.
Powell, Jeff
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Taking on the Corporate Determinants of Ill-health and Health Inequity: A Scoping Review of Actions to Address Excessive Corporate Power to Protect and Promote the Public's Health. [PDF]
Wood B, Lacy-Nichols J, Sacks G.
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