Managing Water for Athens: From the Hydraulic to the Rational Growth Paradigm

Coccossis, Harry

doi:10.1080/09654310303633

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“…These historical peculiarities strongly affected the contemporary patterns of water supply regulation, as will be further discussed in the following sections of the paper (Kallis and Coccossis 2003).…”

Section: A Brief Historical Background and The Greek Late-industrialimentioning

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“…Although the role of water multinationals and certain transnational institutions in promoting privatization has been widely discussed, there are but only a few studies discussing the involvement of such actors and institutions in the water supply of Southern European countries such as Greece (Kaika 2003a;Kallis and Coccossis 2003). In the European Union's (EU's) recent public discourse, the provision of water by private companies is more or less related to the privatized companies of the UK and the powerful water multinationals of France.…”

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Theoretical Perspectives and Empirical Facts on Water Sector Privatization: The Greek Case Against European and Global Trends

Gialis

Λουκάς

Laspidou

2011

Water Resour Manage

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The scope of this paper is to investigate the Greek 'path' to water privatization and its possible interconnections with the ongoing restructuring of the water sector on an EU and a global level. The paper starts with a contemporary, spatiallysensitive analysis of the expanding role of water multinationals, by focusing on water supply operators of the southern EU. Afterwards, it highlights the peculiarities of the 'Greek path' to private sector participation by studying the two most important Greek water companies, in the cities of Athens and Thessaloniki respectively. As found, these companies have partially, though successfully, been transformed according to the rules of the 'market-environmentalist' paradigm. The state drives the privatization effort, while at the same time, insufficiently regulates the activity of both companies. Based on the Greek case, the paper discusses whether the analytical tools offered by a critical approach, the 'accumulation-by-dispossession' thesis, can better interpret changes in water companies of the 'advanced-South'.

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Theoretical Perspectives and Empirical Facts on Water Sector Privatization: The Greek Case Against European and Global Trends

Gialis

Λουκάς

Laspidou

2011

Water Resour Manage

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“…En España, los proyectos hidráulicos del siglo xx, se han referido con el término de «paradigma hidraúlico», con la finalidad de dar soluciones para proporcionar agua subvencionada para riego y abastecimiento urbano (Saurí y Del Moral, 2001; Kallis y Coccossis, 2003). Los crecientes problemas en términos ambientales, sociales y económicos de soluciones convencionales como embalses y trasvases habrían motivado un replanteamiento general de estas soluciones, tal y como se puso de manifiesto en el Plan Hidrológico Nacional español de 2001 y la fuerte oposición que suscitó su principal proyecto como era el trasvase del río Ebro (Saurí, 2003).…”

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La producción de agua desalinizada en las regiones de Murcia y Valencia. Balance de un recurso alternativo con luces y sombras

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Mantero

2017

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“…The region enjoyed a sudden growth in the late 1980s, which resulted in increased water consumption. Coupled with the 1989-1993 drought crisis in Athens, numerous new wells were constructed, which in turn led to ground water depletion [44]. Foumelis [15] refers to a declination of the groundwater table by at least 20 m within a decade.…”

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Multi-Stack Persistent Scatterer Interferometry Analysis in Wider Athens, Greece

2017

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Abstract:The wider Athens metropolitan area serves as an interesting setting for conducting geodetic studies. On the one hand, it has a complex regional geotectonic characteristic with several active and blind faults, one of which gave the deadly M w 5.9 Athens earthquake on September 1999. On the other hand, the Greek capital is heavily urbanized, and construction activities have been taking place in the last few decades to address the city's needs for advanced infrastructures. This work focuses on estimating ground velocities for the wider Athens area in a period spanning two decades, with an extended spatial coverage, increased spatial sampling of the measurements and at high precision. The aim is to deliver to the community a reference geodetic database containing consistent and robust velocity estimates to support further studies for modeling and multi-hazard assessment. The analysis employs advanced persistent scatterer interferometry methods, covering Athens with both ascending and descending ERS-1, ERS-2 and Envisat Synthetic Aperture Radar data, forming six independent interferometric stacks. A methodology is developed and applied to exploit track diversity for decomposing the actual surface velocity field to its vertical and horizontal components and coping with the post-processing of the multi-track big data. Results of the time series analysis reveal that a large area containing the Kifisia municipality experienced non-linear motion; while it had been subsiding in the period 1992-1995 (−12 mm/year), the same area has been uplifting since 2005 (+4 mm/year). This behavior is speculated to have its origin on the regional water extraction activities, which when halted, led to a physical restoration phase of the municipality. In addition, a zoom in the area inflicted by the 1999 earthquake shows that there were zones of counter-force horizontal movement prior to the event. Further analysis is suggested to investigate the source and tectonic implications of this observation.

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Managing Water for Athens: From the Hydraulic to the Rational Growth Paradigm

Cited by 34 publications

References 5 publications

Theoretical Perspectives and Empirical Facts on Water Sector Privatization: The Greek Case Against European and Global Trends

Theoretical Perspectives and Empirical Facts on Water Sector Privatization: The Greek Case Against European and Global Trends

La producción de agua desalinizada en las regiones de Murcia y Valencia. Balance de un recurso alternativo con luces y sombras

Multi-Stack Persistent Scatterer Interferometry Analysis in Wider Athens, Greece

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