Decentralization, privatization and countervailing popular pressure: South African water commodification and decommodification

Planning and Decentralization: Contested Spaces for Public Action in the Global South

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 36-54

  Bond, Patrick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

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EID: 82955220628     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203928264     Document Type: Chapter

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