Against the Current: Privatization, Water Markets, and the State in Chile
In 1981 Chile's military government dictated a new Water Code that radically changed the country's previous water rights system by strengthening private property rights, favoring market incentives, and reducing state regulation. Against the Current: Privatization, Water Markets, and the St...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY
Springer US
1998, 1998
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1998 |
| Series: | Natural Resource Management and Policy
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Table of Contents:
- 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