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Leaky Governance: Alternative Service Delivery and the Myth of Water Utility Independence
October 7, 2016 at 2:30 PM to 4:00 PM
| Location: | A220 Loeb Building |
| Key Contact: | Maria Dabboussy |
| Contact Email: | maria.dabboussy@carleton.ca |
| Contact Phone: | 613-520-2600 ext.2560 |
The Founders Seminar Series welcomes Dr. Kathryn Furlong to present:
Abstract:
Municipalities face important water supply challenges. One response has been to render utilities independent from municipal government through alternative service delivery (ASD). For its proponents, ASD provides needed autonomy from municipal government; for its detractors, it is privatization under another name. Yet the organizational barriers offered by ASD are at best leaky. This is shown through an examination of organizational models for water supply in Ontario and how they are affected by shifting governance and institutional environments. Rather than distinct entities that can be politically and economically separated, the study reveals water management and municipal governance to be deeply interdependent and contends that both must be strengthened to meet contemporary water supply challenges.
Bio:
Kathryn Furlong is an associate professor in the Department of Geography at the Université de Montréal, Co-director of Environmental Ethics at the Centre de recherche en éthique (CRE) and holder of the Canada Research Chair in Water and Urbanization. Her research focuses on water supply from an economic geography and political ecology perspective, looking in particular at issues related to utility politics, service access and infrastructure. Her new book is entitled Leaky Governance : Alternative Service Delivery and the Myth of Water Utility Independence (UBC, 2016).
Website: www.urbanwater.ca
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