Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 494 g
Digital Innovation and the Private Sector as Development Agent
Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 494 g
ISBN: 978-1-5292-4547-9
Verlag: Bristol University Press
Pay-as-you-go water dispensers are used in many areas in the Global South, particularly those that are ‘off-grid’. This book examines the increasing influence of private corporations and philanthrocapitalist principles in development cooperation in the SDG-era by focusing on water supply to the inhabitants of rural and peri-urban areas of Kenya.
The book explores how private sector approaches and digital technologies open up remote regions to permanent arrangements of transnational market-based water supply beyond state sovereignty, which define their users as paying customers. Considering these technological solutions alongside socio-political realities and local knowledge, it offers a nuanced perspective on the promises and limitations of market-based interventions in the water sector.
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Fachgebiete
- Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Dürre und Wasserversorgung
- Technische Wissenschaften Umwelttechnik | Umwelttechnologie Wasserversorgung, Wasseraufbereitung
- Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie
- Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
- Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Energie- & Versorgungswirtschaft Wasserwirtschaft
Weitere Infos & Material
Introduction: PAYGo Water Dispensers and the Sustainable Development Goals
1. Digital Technologies and Private Sector Market Constructions
2. The Private Sector and Market- Based Development
3. From Large-Scale Water Infrastructure to Small- Scale Digital Technologies
4. Innovating PAYGo Water Dispensers
5. Extending Water Supply to Urban ‘Informal’ Areas
6. Disrupting Rural Water Supply
7. More Than Technical Infrastructures of Market-Based Development
8. Transparent Water Data or Multiple Waters?
Conclusion: The Private Sector as Development Agent and Market-Based Development in the Water Sector
