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T1 The privatisation of urban water services: theory and empirical evidence in the case of Spain
T2 La privatización del servicio urbano de agua: teoría y evidencia empírica en el caso de España
A1 Ruiz Villaverde, Alberto
A1 González Gómez, Francisco
A1 Picazo Tadeo, Andrés José
K1 Urban water services
K1 Privatisation
K1 Remunicipalisation
K1 Spain
K1 Servicio urbano de agua
K1 Privatización
K1 Remunicipalización
K1 España
K1 Economía
K1 Economics
K1 Geografía
K1 Geography
K1 Sociología
K1 Sociology
AB Following the wave of deregulation and privatisation of publicfirms that started in Anglo-Saxon economies in the late 1970s, most industrialised countries changed their laws to encourage the contracting out of local services. Accordingly, in 1985 many Spanish municipalities began to privatise their urban water services. However, three decades after the first privatisations took place, and against a backdrop of increasing opposition to new privatisations, several municipalities are now returning to the public provision of these services. In this context, after establishing a theoretical framework for privatisation, this paper goes on to describe the main features of the process of privatisation of urban water services in Spain, as well as recent trends towards remunicipalisation. With no clear empiricalevidence as to whether public or private management of urban water services is better, this ongoing debate is set to continue and will be strongly influenced by prevailing ideological trends as well as other environmental factors.
SN 2340-2717
YR 2015
FD 2015
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10017/26682
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10017/26682
LA eng
DS MINDS@UW
RD 26-abr-2024