G. Merlinsky's scientific contributions

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Publications (2)

Urban Water conflicts in Buenos Aires: voices questioning the economical social and environmental sustainability of the water and sewerage concession
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  • Feb 2012
The city of Buenos Aires lies along the banks of the Río de la Plata, an inexhaustible source of freshwater. It also sits on the largest reserve of groundwater in the world. However, a significant portion of the inhabitants of the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Region (BAMR) do not have access to a supply of quality water. Some of them, mainly in the so...
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... Conversely, land titling is associated with statistically significant increases in access to water (Meeks, 2018). This correlation can generate a vicious circle because, as Botton and Merlinsky (2006) point out, access to basic services is itself a vector of citizenship. Being deprived of a connection to the main network encourages a demoralizing self-perception as a second-class citizen, which undermines the motivation to engage in collective action, thereby further reducing the possibility of obtaining a connection in the near future. ...
Reference: Institutional perspectives on water services
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