Of liquid dreams: a political ecology of water privatization in Buenos Aires

By A. Loftus, D. McDonald. 2001

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Rules of Privatization: Contradictions in Neoliberal Regulation of North Pacific Fisheries (2004, background): “Just as the point of sideboards was to protect competition and facilitate economic activity, the council decided that creating exemptions to the sideboards could also work to protect competition and facilitate economic activity.”
Payments for environmental services as neoliberal market-based forest conservation in Vietnam: Panacea or problem? (2012, background): “These rollback processes have had mixed results regarding environmental outcomes; negative consequences, including mismanagement of public water supplies (Prudham, 2004; Loftus and McDonald, 2001) and increased deforestation after deregulation and structural adjustments (Owusu, 1998; Shimamoto et al”
Neoliberalism and the Environment in Latin America (2006, background): “Loftus & Macdonald (70) provide a much more negative interpretation arguing that Aguas Argentinas has failed to provide concrete plans for sewage treatment investments and has failed to meet any of its first five-year targets for sewerage network expansion with the deeply inadequate sewerage coverag”
Public-Private Partnerships (2004, background): “The rapid rise of this trend among governments of the third world is not due to overwhelming evidence for the social and political benefits of enabled markets, since plenty of documentation proves otherwise (see Sclar 2000; Loftus and McDonald 2001; Petras and Veltmeyer 2001).”