Overview
- Provides a cutting-edge overview of the challenges facing global water governance
- Combines extensive data to review individual water challenges facing different country
- Discusses the difficulties faced by the Sustainable Development Goals
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Water Governance: Policy and Practice (PSWG)
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Access to water is one of the most pressing global issues of the twenty-first century, particularly when set against the background of a rapidly growing global population. This book provides a cutting-edge, comprehensive overview of the challenges facing water governance and regulatory choices. The recently adopted Sustainable Development Goals set forward an ambitious agenda of providing universal access to good quality water supply and sanitation services within a financially constrained environment: however, the various peculiarities of each country regarding water governance makes it difficult to identify and implement the best practices and benchmarks. Drawing together empirical studies from countries around the world, the editors and contributors combine extensive data to review the individual challenges facing each country, from the supervision of autonomous regulatory bodies to the question of centralization and the influence of local utility companies. This pioneering andpractical volume will be of interest and value not only to students and scholars of water governance, but also to practitioners and regulators.
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Simon Porcher is Associate Professor of Management and vice-director of the Economics of Public-Private Partnership Chair at Sorbonne Business School, IAE Paris, Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, France. He specialises the study of privatization of water public services in France, the UK and Chile and is expanding his research into China, Germany, the Netherlands and Portugal.
Stéphane Saussier is Director of the Water research area at the Florence School of Regulation, Italy, and Professor of Economics and Management at the Sorbonne Business School, France. Specialising in issues of water governance, he regularly contributes to reports for international institutions such as the OECD and the European Parliament.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Facing the Challenges of Water Governance
Editors: Simon Porcher, Stéphane Saussier
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Water Governance: Policy and Practice
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98515-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-98514-5Published: 29 November 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-98515-2Published: 19 November 2018
Series ISSN: 2947-910X
Series E-ISSN: 2947-9118
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 366
Number of Illustrations: 70 b/w illustrations
Topics: Environment Studies, Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management, Environmental Geography, Human Geography