A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
Water justice and Europe’s Right2Water movement
In 2013 the European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI) ‘Right2Water’ collected 1.9 million signatures across Europe against water privatization. It became the first ever successful ECI and has built a Europe-wide movement. Right2Water sought for Europe’s legal enforcement of the Human Right to Water and Sanitation (HRWS) as a strategic political tool to challenge European Union market policies. The paper examines the ECI from a social movement perspective. Although the European Commission subscribed that ‘water is a public good, not a commodity’, its implementation is subject to continuing politics and socio-political struggle, with growing urgency in times of the Covid-19 pandemic crisis.
Water justice and Europe’s Right2Water movement
In 2013 the European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI) ‘Right2Water’ collected 1.9 million signatures across Europe against water privatization. It became the first ever successful ECI and has built a Europe-wide movement. Right2Water sought for Europe’s legal enforcement of the Human Right to Water and Sanitation (HRWS) as a strategic political tool to challenge European Union market policies. The paper examines the ECI from a social movement perspective. Although the European Commission subscribed that ‘water is a public good, not a commodity’, its implementation is subject to continuing politics and socio-political struggle, with growing urgency in times of the Covid-19 pandemic crisis.
Water justice and Europe’s Right2Water movement
van den Berge, Jerry (author) / Vos, Jeroen (author) / Boelens, Rutgerd (author)
International Journal of Water Resources Development ; 38 ; 173-191
2022-01-02
19 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
Unknown
Protecting Europe's water resources: Policy issues
| British Library Conference Proceedings | 1995
Europe's Water Framework Directive: discovering hidden benefits
| British Library Conference Proceedings | 2006
| Elsevier | 2003
| British Library Online Contents | 2006
| British Library Online Contents | 2004