Against the current : privatization, water markets, and the state in Chile /
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| Author / Creator: | Bauer, Carl J., 1960- |
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| Imprint: | Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, c1998. |
| Description: | xii, 164 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Natural resource management and policy |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3315822 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Maps
- List of Tables
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction
- Water, Markets, and Privatization
- Recent Political and Economic History in Chile
- Analytical Framework: Geography, Political Economy, and Law
- Research Methods
- Outline of Book
- Notes to Chapter One
- 2. Blueprint for the Neoliberal Model: Law, Economics, and Politics in the 1980 Constitution
- Origins and Politics of the 1980 Constitution
- The Economic Constitution
- The New and Contradictory Role of the Judiciary
- Diagnosis and Reform of the Judicial System
- Conclusions
- Notes to Chapter Two
- 3. Water Rights and the Law of the Pendulum: Legal and Political History of the 1981 Water Code
- Goals and Principles: Private Property and Free Markets
- Historical Background: Chilean Water Law up to the 1970s
- Steps Toward a Neoliberal Water Code, 1976-1981
- Conclusions
- Notes to Chapter Three
- 4. Bringing Water Markets Down to Earth: Water Rights Trading in Practice, 1980-1995
- Irrigated Agriculture in Chile: Two Study Areas
- The Water Market in Practice, 1980-1995
- Why Water Rights Trading is Limited
- Peasant Farmers and the Water Market
- Reforming the Water Code
- Conclusions
- Notes to Chapter Four
- 5. Private Property and River Basins: Water Use Conflicts, the Market Model, and the Courts
- Judicial Behavior in Water Rights Cases
- Non-Consumptive Rights and River Basin Management
- Hydroelectricity and River Basin Conflicts in South-Central Chile
- Reforming River Basin Institutions
- Conclusions
- Epilogue
- Notes to Chapter Five
- 6. Conclusions
- Bibliography
- Index