From State to Market?: Water Mercantilización in Spain

By K. Bakker. 2002

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Subfields: Ocean Engineering, Political Science and International Relations, Water Science and Technology

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Introduction to the Special Issue: Water Grabbing? Focus on the (Re)appropriation of Finite Water Resources (2012, background): “Building on this, Borras et al. (2012) see contemporary land grabbing as marked by three defining features that are worth considering as backdrop to thinking about water grabbing.”
Geographies of Neoliberalism in Latin America (2005, background): “As Bakker (2002) argues, this involves both organizational transformation in the form of resource privatization, and institutional transformation in the form of resource commercialization.”
WHY DO LOCAL GOVERNMENTS PRIVATIZE THE PROVISION OF WATER SERVICES? EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FROM SPAIN (2011, background): “According to Bakker (2002), the lack of financial resources to invest in infrastructure was one of the key factors behind the private sector moving into the water industry in Spain.”
What kind of governance for what kind of equity? Towards a theorization of justice in water governance (2014, background): “There is little need here to review the arguments for the human right to water, or the critiques levelled against it, as they are well rehearsed in the literature (see, inter alia, Bakker, 2007, 2010; Mirosa & Harris, 2012). It is worth noting, however, the problems of ‘rights talk’ more generally, ”
State Restructuring and the Scale Politics of Rural Water Governance in Bolivia (2005, background): “…and popular literature on water regulation under neoliberalism has focused primarily on urban water-supply systems and their (partial) privatization (see, inter alia, Bakker 2000; 2002; Finnegan, 2002; Haughton, 1998; 2002; Marvin and Laurie, 1999; Nickson and Vargas, 2002; Swyngedouw, 1997b).”
Prospects for an Environmental Economic Geography: Linking Ecological Modernization and Regulationist Approaches (2006, background): “…be able to incorporate it as a new source of growth—this may help explain some of the enthusiasm for ecological modernization, since it offers some firms, as well as some nation-states (see, e.g., the case of Sweden; Lundqvist 2000), opportunities for growth (Bridge and McManus 2000; Bakker 2002).”
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.”