TY - BOOK ID - 78531245 TI - Water on tap : rights and regulation in the transnational governance of urban water services PY - 2011 SN - 1139064142 1107222052 1283112892 9786613112897 1139076663 1139083481 1139081217 1139078941 0511974825 1139070940 9781139078948 9781139081214 9780511974823 9781107008946 1107008948 9781107411838 1107411831 9781139064149 9781107222052 9781283112895 6613112895 9781139076661 9781139083485 9781139070942 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Water utilities KW - International business enterprises KW - Privatization KW - Right to water. KW - Water, Right to KW - Human rights KW - Industrial laws and legislation KW - Corporation law KW - Water companies KW - Public utilities KW - Water-supply KW - Law and legislation. KW - Law KW - General and Others UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78531245 AB - In the 1990s and mid-2000s, turbulent political and social protests surrounded the issue of private sector involvement in providing urban water services in both the developed and developing world. Water on Tap explores examples of such conflicts in six national settings (France, Bolivia, Chile, Argentina, South Africa and New Zealand), focusing on a central question: how were rights and regulation mobilized to address the demands of redistribution and recognition? Two modes of governance emerged: managed liberalization and participatory democracy, often in hybrid forms that complicated simple oppositions between public and private, commodity and human right. The case studies examine the effects of transnational and domestic regulatory frameworks shaping the provision of urban water services, bilateral investment treaties and the contributions of non-state actors such as transnational corporations, civil society organisations and social movement activists. The conceptual framework developed can be applied to a wide range of transnational governance contexts. ER -