Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book
Author Matés-Barco, Juan Manuel

Title Ecological Crisis and Water Supply The Case of Andalusia in the Spanish Hydrological Context
Published Boston : BRILL, 2023

Copies

Description 1 online resource (276 p.)
Series Brill's Series in the History of the Environment Series ; v.6
Brill's Series in the History of the Environment Series
Contents Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- References -- Acknowledgements -- Figures and Tables -- Figures -- Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- 1 Water Supply Management in Andalusia -- Keywords -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Debate on Public Services -- 3 Andalusia: Scarcity and Delays -- 4 Water Management in Andalusia in the Age of Democracy -- 5 Conclusions -- 2 An Incessant Thirst: The Water Market in a Dried-up Southern European Country, Spain, 1985-2022 -- Keywords -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Hydrographic Constraints of a Southern European Country -- 3 Changes in Water Culture
4 Transformations in Regulation since the Coming of Democracy -- 5 Map of Water Uses -- 6 Main Operators in Water Supply and Changes in the Management -- 7 Conclusions -- 3 Between Private and Public -- Keywords -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Institutional and Legal Framework for Constructing Modern Infrastructures -- 2.1 From the End of the Nineteenth Century to the End of the 1920s -- 2.2 Municipal Management from the 1930s Onwards -- 3 Infrastructures in the First Half of the Twentieth Century: A Comparative Perspective from Portugal and Spain in Water Supply -- 4 Conclusions
4 Public Health, Sanitary Movement and Public Water Supply Services -- Keywords -- 1 Introduction* -- 2 Sanitary Movement and Drinking Water Supply in the English Cities of the Nineteenth Century -- 2.1 The Sanitary Movement and Its Link to Municipal Trading -- 2.2 From (in)Effective Competition to Regulated Monopolies, and from Regulated Monopolies to Municipal Trading to Ensure Drinking Water Supply -- 3 The Reception of the Sanitary Movement in Spain -- 4 Drinking Water Supply Services in Spain (1850-1930): Special Reference to Andalusia
4.1 Spanish Backwardness in the Public Management of Drinking Water Supply Services -- 4.2 Drinking Water Supply Services in the Main Spanish Cities -- 4.3 The Situation in Andalusia -- 5 Conclusions -- 5 Water Supply in the City of Cadiz in the Nineteenth Century: The Cadiz Water Works Company Limited -- Keywords -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Water Supply Problems in the City of Cadiz in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century -- 3 Drinking Water Supply Projects in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century
4 The Cadiz Water Works Company Limited and Its Role in the Service of Supplying Water to the City of Cadiz -- 5 Final Considerations -- 6 Manuscript Sources -- References -- 6 The Improvement of the Water Supply Infrastructures in Antequera, 1818-1932 -- Keywords -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Antequera, a Unique, Medium-Sized Town -- 3 Transformations in the Urban Layout and Public Services -- 4 The Slow Progress in Water Supply Infrastructures -- 5 Conclusions -- 6 Sources -- 7 Foreign Companies, Public Intervention, and Ecological Crisis: Water in Seville, 1871-1959 -- Keywords -- 1 Introduction
Notes Description based upon print version of record
2 Origin of the Water Services and of Seville Waterworks
Genre/Form Electronic books
Form Electronic book
Author Vázquez-Fariñas, María
ISBN 9789004679634
9004679634