Custom cover image
Custom cover image

Urban water conflicts / edited by Bernard Barraque

Contributor(s): Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Series: Urban water series--UNESCO IHP ; Volume 7Publisher: Boca Raton ; Paris, France : CRC Press, 2011Edition: First editionDescription: 1 online resource (xxxii, 313 pages)ISBN:
  • 9780203877029
  • 9781135998943
  • 9781135998981
  • 9781135998998
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: 9780415498623. | 9780415498630. | Erscheint auch als: 9780415498623 Druck-AusgabeDDC classification:
  • 363.61
DOI: DOI: 10.1201/b11584Online resources: Summary: 1. Urban water conflicts : background and conceptual framework -- 2. Urban water conflicts in recent European history : changing interactions between technology, environment and society -- 3. Water, public responsibility and equity : the Barcelona 'water war' of the 1990s -- 4. Full circle? Public responsibility versus privatization of water supplies in the United States -- 5. Public-private partnership in courts : the rise and fall of concessions to supply drinking water in France (1875-1928) -- 6. In search of (hidden) Portuguese urban water conflicts : the Lisbon water story (1856-2006) -- 7. Water supply services in the cities of Brazil : conflicts, challenges and new opportunities in regulation -- 8. Urban water conflicts in Buenos Aires : voices questioning the sustainability of the water and sewerage concession -- 9. In search of meaningful interdisciplinarity : understanding urban water conflict in Mexico -- 10. Conflict versus cooperation between the state and civil society : a water-demand management comparison between Cape Town and Johannesburg, South Africa -- 11. Conflicts of influence and competing models : the boom in community-based privatization of water services in sub-Saharan Africa -- 12. Governance failure : urban water and conflict in Jakarta, Indonesia -- 13. Man-made scarcity, unsustainability and urban water conflicts in Indian cities -- 14. Urban water conflicts in the western U.S. -- 15. Urban water reform in Italy : a live bomb behind outward unanimity -- 16. Water infrastructures between commercialization and shrinking : the case of Eastern Germany -- 17. Urban water conflicts and sustainability : an ecological-economic approach.PPN: PPN: 1750567059Package identifier: Produktsigel: BZS-7-MAUB-Greenleaf1 | ZDB-7-TFC
No physical items for this record
KIT – The Research University in the Helmholtz Association                         Home | Impressum | Datenschutz | Barrierefreiheit | KIT