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Front Matter
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Against the Current: Privatization, Water Markets, and the State in Chile challenges the glowing reports given by neoliberals in Chile and the World Bank, showing that the results of this economic experiment have actually been rather mixed. Within the agricultural sector the Water Code has worked fairly well, although the market incentives to conserve water have been ineffective and water rights trading has been less active than expected. The Code's impact has been more negative at the level of river basins, where the institutional framework has revealed critical flaws in coordinating multiple water users and resolving conflicts.
Against the Current: Privatization, Water Markets, and the State in Chile combines law, political economy, and geography to analyze the disadvantages, problems, and wider contexts of water markets. This book will appeal to everyone interested in property rights, market-friendly environmental policies, the political economy of sustainable development, and the intersection of economics with law and institutions.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Against the Current: Privatization, Water Markets, and the State in Chile
Authors: Carl J. Bauer
Series Title: Natural Resource Management and Policy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-6403-4
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1998
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-8227-0Published: 31 August 1998
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4613-7942-3Published: 12 October 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4615-6403-4Published: 06 December 2012
Series ISSN: 0929-127X
Series E-ISSN: 2511-8560
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 164
Topics: Hydrogeology, Environmental Management, Economic Geology, Environmental Economics