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作者

Vanessa Mascia Turri

来源

CITIES,Vol.120,Issue1,Article 103437

语言

英文

关键字

Water remunicipalisation;State of literature;European local services;Water policy;Multilevel analysis

作者单位

Dept. of Law University of Naples “Parthenope”, Naples, Italy;Dept. of Law University of Naples “Parthenope”, Naples, Italy

摘要

The article examines the state of literature on remunicipalisation of water services in Europe starting from three basic questions: how this phenomenon is framed, what evidence is available and how much the analytical perspectives most used in analysing such a phenomenon are fit for its understanding. Literature shows that water remunicipalisation remains an under-theorized issue and its knowledge results scarce. We therefore propose the concept of local service restructuring to emphasise the micro-scale peculiarities of the remunicipalised water regimes. After having framed the phenomenon at issue in the European historical-geographical context and have systematized the current evidence, we suggest to fill the knowledge gap on water remunicipalisation in Eurozone through the fulfilment of in depth case studies with a multilevel perspective of analysis.