A Politics of Inevitability The Privatisation of the Berlin Water Company, the Global City Discourse, and Governance in 1990s Berlin /

• Main Author: Beveridge, Ross (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wiesbaden : VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2012.
• Subjects: Political science.; Environmental management.; Political Science and International Relations.; Political Science.; Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management.

This book provides a detailed analysis of the controversial privatisation of the Berlin Water Company (BWB) in 1999. As with other cases of privatisation around the world, the city’s government argued there was no alternative in a context of public debts and economic restructuring. Drawing on post-s...