Bakker, Karen J.

Privatizing water : governance failure and the world's urban water crisis / by Karen Bakker - New Delhi Orient Blackswan 2011 - xvi, 303p. : ill., maps 24cm (Hb)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Governance failure : reframing the urban water supply "crisis" -- Material emblems of citizenship : creating "public" water -- Watering the thirsty poor : the water privatization debate -- Citizens without a city : the techno-politics of urban water governance -- Protesting privatization : transnational struggles over the human right to water -- Commons versus commodities : the ambiguous merits of community water-supply management -- Politics and biopolitics : debating ecological governance.

9788125043218 695.00

DBAD/PUB

ENG-103859


Municipal water supply--Political aspects.
Water utilities--Deregulation.
Privatization.
Right to water.

363.61 Bak/Pri