Modernization and Urban Water Governance Organizational Change and Sustainability in Europe /

• Main Author: Bolognesi, Thomas (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Water Governance: Policy and Practice
• Subjects: Water pollution.; Environmental management.; Water-supply.; Waste Water Technology / Water Pollution Control / Water Management / Aquatic Pollution.; Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management.; Water Industry/Water Technologies.

This book describes the impact of modernization on the organization and sustainability of Urban Water Systems in Europe (UWSEs). Bolognesi explains that the modernization of UWSEs was a regulatory shock that began in the 1990s and was put into action with the EU Water Framework Directive in the year...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. UWSEs Organization and Modernization: Similarities and Variations
• 3. UWSEs Sustainability and Modernization: Achievements and Main Challenges
• 4. The Microinstitutional Determinants of Depolitization and Resilience in UWSEs
• 5. The Macroinstituional Determinants of Depolitization and Resilience in UWSEs
• 6. Institutional Dynamics and Sustainability: The Trade-Off Between Broader Regulation
• 7. Conclusion.