Download or read book Gobernanza y gesti n del agua modelos p blico y privado written by Ramón Tamames Gómez and published by Profit editorial. This book was released on 2015-11-13 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: El agua es el patrimonio más preciado de nuestro planeta, pero ni es un recurso ilimitado ni toda la población mundial puede acceder a él con facilidad. En algunos países, el agua es un tema de debate sobre su gestión y el negocio privado que se deriva de ella, por lo que es preciso un nuevo paradigma que junto a su potencial escasez futura, incluya el derecho humano a su acceso y una administración eficaz y eficiente. Para ello, es necesaria una perspectiva de la gestión del agua como servicio público en su contexto histórico y geográfico sin eludir los avatares políticos y considerando las formas alternativas de esa gestión y gobernanza, así como su evaluación objetiva para garantizar el derecho al agua y su conservación. Asimismo, es fundamental que la sociedad entienda la importancia de un uso responsable del recurso y los costes derivados del ciclo del agua.

Download or read book Gobernanza y gestion del agua modelos p blico y privado written by Ramón Tamames Gómez and published by Profit Editorial. This book was released on 2015-11-01 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: El agua es el patrimonio más preciado de nuestro planeta, pero ni es un recurso ilimitado ni toda la población mundial puede acceder a él con facilidad. En algunos países, el agua es un tema de debate sobre su gestión y el negocio privado que se deriva de ella, por lo que es preciso un nuevo paradigma que junto a su potencial escasez futura, incluya el derecho humano a su acceso y una administración eficaz y eficiente. Para ello, es necesaria una perspectiva de la gestión del agua como servicio público en su contexto histórico y geográfico sin eludir los avatares políticos y considerando las formas alternativas de esa gestión y gobernanza, así como su evaluación objetiva para garantizar el derecho al agua y su conservación. Asimismo, es fundamental que la sociedad entienda la importancia de un uso responsable del recurso y los costes derivados del ciclo del agua.

Download or read book Por un modelo p blico de agua triunfos luchas y sue os written by and published by Editorial El Viejo Topo. This book was released on 2005-11 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Lo p blico y lo privado en la gesti n del agua written by Pedro Arrojo Agudo and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book De la gobernanza neoliberal a la gobernanza del bien p blico los servicios del agua en Am rica Latina dossier written by Cristina Zurbriggen and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: En el presente milenio, la sociedad latinoamericana está viviendo un década de transición cuestionamiento al modelo neoliberal, gobiernos de izquierda, revalorización del Estado y la sociedad civil, transformaciones tecnológicas) que impactan en las formas de producir servicios y políticas públicas. En este escenario, a partir de la experiencia de las políticas de agua se revisa y se cuestiona el déficit de universalización de los servicios de agua potable. En un primer apartado, se introducen los elementos centrales de la prestación de los servicios bajo la gobernanza neoliberal (mercado, privatización, Nueva Gerencia Pública). A continuación se analiza la revalorizaron de las formas tradicionales de la gestión comunitaria del agua que han sido impulsados por los déficits del modelo neoliberal. Luego, se exploran los aportes de Elinor Ostrom quien nos obliga a reflexionar sobre los desafíos de cómo transitar de una gobernanza neoliberal hacia una gobernanza de lo público. Esto refiere a repensar políticas públicas que le asignen una mayor prioridad a la solución de temas de inequidad y revertir los agudos déficits de inclusión social que caracterizan a la región.

Download or read book Transnational Corporations in Urban Water Governance written by Joyce Valdovinos and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-08-14 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the role played by business in urban water governance by analyzing the evolution of the global private water sector along with four public-private partnerships in Mexico and the U.S. The local nature of water services often hides the global developments behind the rise of transnational water corporations, which have gone from being local operators to becoming dynamic and powerful actors within an interconnected transnational space for water. This book focuses on the French groups Veolia and Suez, two of the most prominent private actors in global water governance, and the development and adaptation strategies of both companies in the cities of Aguascalientes, Mexico City, Atlanta, and Milwaukee over the past 30 years. Drawing on over 100 interviews conducted with corporate executives, public authorities, and local users of water services, this book moves beyond the simplistic dichotomy of the public-private debate and develops a theoretical framework that analyzes the economic and political power wielded by transnational business actors in global water governance. Not only does the book explain how Veolia and Suez strategically mobilize resources at difference scales in order to expand their global operations, but it also provides a nuanced picture of how state regulation remains of central importance to understanding the dynamics and evolution of the global water sector. Students and scholars interested in business and the environment, including public-private partnerships, business management and transnational corporations, and water governance, will find this book of great interest as will professionals and policymakers working in these fields.

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Download or read book Benchmarking Water Services written by Enrique Cabrera Jr and published by IWA Publishing. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Benchmarking has become a key tool in the water industry to promote and achieve performance targets for utilities. The use of this tool for performance improvement through systematic search and adaptation of leading practices, has expanded globally during the past decade. Many ongoing projects worldwide aim to address different needs and objectives, in varying contexts, with outstanding results and impact. Benchmarking Water Services provides valuable information to everyone interested in benchmarking in the water industry. The text is aimed at utilities considering joining a benchmarking project, experienced practitioners in charge of organizing a benchmarking exercise, consultants, regulators and researchers. The document is presented with a clear practice oriented approach and can be used as a how-to-benchmark guide presented from different perspectives (participants, organizers, supervising bodies). Readers will gain practical insight on real life benchmarking practices and will benefit from the experiences gained in some of the leading benchmarking projects of the water industry (including the IWA-WSAA benchmarking efforts, the European Benchmarking Co-operation and the several benchmarking projects carried out in Austria and Central Europe). The manual also presents the new IWA Benchmarking Framework, which aims to harmonize the terms used to describe benchmarking and performance indicators practices in the water industry, guaranteeing a more fluent and efficient communication. This Manual of Best Practice is edited by the IWA Specialist Group on Benchmarking and Performance Assessment, and co-published by AWWA and IWA Publishing. Praise for Benchmarking Water Services: "The continual trend of conceptual to specifics throughout the book provides for an educational experience each time the book is either casually perused or carefully studied." "The authors (Cabrera, Haskins and Fritiz) diligently pursue the focus of improvement." "Benchmarking Water Services is an in depth and practical ‘must have’ guide for any utility currently engaged in or planning to develop a benchmarking process" - Gregory M. Baird (2012) Benchmarking: An International Journal 19:2. More information about the book can be found on the Water Wiki in an article written by the author: http://www.iwawaterwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Articles/TheNewIWABenchmarkingFramework A Spanish language version of this book is available as a free eBook: http://www.iwawaterwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Articles/eBookTitlesfromIWAPublishingFreetoDownload-Volume2#HBenchmarkingParaServiciosdeAgua

Download or read book Social Power and the Urbanization of Water written by Erik Swyngedouw and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2004-03-11 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking as his case-study the city of Guayaquil in Ecuador, where 600,000 people lack easy access to potable water, Erik Swyngedouw aims to reconstruct, theoretically and empirically, the political, social, and economic conduits through which water flows, and to identify how power relations infuse the metabolic transformation of water as it becomes urban. These flows of water which are simultaneously physical and social carry in their currents the embodiment of myriad social struggles and conflicts. The excavation of these flows narrates stories about the city's structure and development. Yet these flows also carry the potential for an improved, more just, and more equitable right to the city and its water. The flows of power that are captured by urban water circulation also suggest that the question of urban sustainability is not just about achieving sound ecological and environmental conditions, but first and foremost about a social struggle for access and control; a struggle not just for the right to water, but for the right to the city itself.

Download or read book OECD Studies on Water Water and Climate Change Adaptation Policies to Navigate Uncharted Waters written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2013-09-02 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication sets out the challenge for freshwater in a changing climate and provides policy guidance on how to navigate this new "waterscape".

Download or read book Governing the Metropolis written by Eduardo Rojas and published by David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies. This book was released on 2008 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores key metropolitan management issues, presents practical principles of good governance as they apply to the metropolis, and unfolds cases of institutional and programmatic arrangements to tackle such issues.

Download or read book Climate Risk Informed Decision Analysis CRIDA written by Mendoza, Guillermo and published by UNESCO Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-31 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Conservaci n privada y comunitaria en los pa ses amaz nicos written by Bruno Monteferri and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contiene una sistematización de las distintas herramientas legales e incentivos diseñados e implementados para promover y dar seguridad jurídica a las iniciativas de conservación privadas y comunitarias en Bolivia, Brasil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Guayana Francesa, Peru, Surinam y Venezuela.

Download or read book Water Governance in the Face of Global Change written by Claudia Pahl-Wostl and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-09-04 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers the first comprehensive treatment of multi-level water governance, developing a conceptual and analytical framework that captures the complexity of real water governance systems while also introducing different approaches to comparative analysis. Applications illustrate how the ostensibly conflicting goals of deriving general principles and of taking context-specific factors into account can be reconciled. Specific emphasis is given to governance reform, adaptive and transformative capacity and multi-level societal learning. The sustainable management of global water resources is one of the most pressing environmental challenges of the 21st century. Many problems and barriers to improvement can be attributed to failures in governance rather than the resource base itself. At the same time our understanding of complex water governance systems largely remains limited and fragmented. The book offers an invaluable resource for all researchers working on water governance topics and for practitioners dealing with water governance challenges alike.

Download or read book Environmental Governance in Latin America written by Fabio De Castro and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-03-24 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is open access under a CC-BY license. The multiple purposes of nature – livelihood for communities, revenues for states, commodities for companies, and biodiversity for conservationists – have turned environmental governance in Latin America into a highly contested arena. In such a resource-rich region, unequal power relations, conflicting priorities, and trade-offs among multiple goals have led to a myriad of contrasting initiatives that are reshaping social relations and rural territories. This edited collection addresses these tensions by unpacking environmental governance as a complex process of formulating and contesting values, procedures and practices shaping the access, control and use of natural resources. Contributors from various fields address the challenges, limitations, and possibilities for a more sustainable, equal, and fair development. In this book, environmental governance is seen as an overarching concept defining the dynamic and multi-layered repertoire of society-nature interactions, where images of nature and discourses on the use of natural resources are mediated by contextual processes at multiple scales.

Download or read book The Tools of Government written by Odus V. Elliott and published by OUP Us. This book was released on 2002-02-22 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new tools of public action have come to rely heavily on third parties - private businesses, nonprofit organisations, and other levels of government - for their operation. The Tools of Government is a comprehensive guide to the operation of these tools and to the management, accountability, policy, and theoretical issues they pose.

Download or read book Guidelines for Protected Areas Legislation written by Barbara J. Lausche and published by IUCN. This book was released on 2011 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The central aim of this publication is to consider the key elements of a modern, comprehensive, and effective legal framework for successful management of protected areas. They provide practical guidance for all those involved in developing, improving, or reviewing national legislation on protected areas, be they legal drafters and practitioners, protected area managers, interested NGOs, or scholars. These guidelines include fifteen case studies, eight dealing with the protected area legislation of individual countries and six cases dealing with specific sites providing fundamental solutions that stand the test of time.