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Emergence, Self-Organization and the Commons: Analyzing Complex Water Management Problems

By Elizabeth Cooper On December 3, 2015 · 1 Comment · In Insights
  Challenging the Public/Private Dichotomy of Water Management Cochabamba, Bolivia is famous for its 2000 “Water Wars”, in which a popular revolt successfully fought to throw out Bechtel Corporation and rejected the World Bank’s privatization scheme for urban water systems in the country. The Bechtel subsidiary had imposed dramatic price increases overnight that led to [...]
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