Privatization and urban governance: The continuing challenges of efficiency, voice and integration

Warner, Mildred E.

doi:10.1016/j.cities.2012.06.007

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“…However, large investment in a specific fixed asset puts the government that commits to its provision at risk because it needs the contribution of other governments to help pay for the service in order to cover what would otherwise be unused capacity built into the system. Measurement difficulties increase search costs and make coordination, monitoring, and enforcement more difficult when outcomes of services are not easily disaggregated (Ferris & Graddy, 1986;Hefetz & Warner, 2012;Warner, 2012).…”

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“…Contract networks link individual units through joint ventures and service contracts that require the consent of those involved (Kwon & Feiock, 2010;Zeemering, 2012). This set of governance tools preserves local autonomy while providing a formalized mechanism for resolving externalities and other issues of concern to the parties (Bel et al, 2012;Warner, 2012). The work of Manoj Shrestha (Shrestha, 2010;Shrestha & Feiock, 2009, 2011 investigates pay-for-service contracts and how local governments reduce risk by embedding relationships within a larger set of contractual agreements.…”

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The Institutional Collective Action Framework

Feiock¹

2013

Policy Studies Journal

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The Institutional Collective Action Framework

Feiock¹

2013

Policy Studies Journal

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“…These trends are by no means unique to Bangalore, but not everywhere have they had similar consequences. The trend https://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol22/iss1/art51/ of privatizing public space and greenery, for example, has also been prominent in urban policies in the UK and U.S. since the 1970s (Warner 2012), and two decades later in the postsocialist cities of Eastern Europe (Hirt 2012). Privatization and collective action can on the one hand lead to nature conservation, regeneration, and stronger community ties (Foster 2012).…”

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Shifts in ecosystem services in deprived urban areas: understanding people’s responses and consequences for well-being

Derkzen¹,

Nagendra²,

Teeffelen³

et al. 2017

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ABSTRACT. Urban commons are under pressure. City development has led to the encroachment and ecological degradation of urban open space. Although there is growing insight that urban ecosystems need to be protected, there is hardly any attention for the consequences (of both pressures and protection efforts) for vulnerable human population groups. We aim to understand how urban development affects the well-being of the urban poor, through shifts in ecosystem services (ES) and people's responses to these shifts. We performed household interviews and group mapping sessions in seven urban lake communities in Bangalore, India. Changes at Bangalore's lakes can be summarized by three trends: privatization followed by conversion, pollution followed by degradation, and restoration followed by gentrification. Over time, this resulted in a shift in the types of ES supplied and demanded, the nature of use, and de facto governance: from provisioning, communal and public; to cultural, individual, and private. Lake dwellers responded by finding (other) sources of income, accepting lower quality or less accessible ES, and/or completely stopping the use of certain ES. The consequences of ecosystem change for people's well-being differ depending on a household's ability to adapt and on individual circumstances, land tenure and financial capital in particular. To guarantee a future for Bangalore's lakes, restoration seems the only viable option. Although beautiful lake parks may be a solution for the well-off and not-too-poor, leaving the very poor without options to adapt to the new circumstances puts them at risk of becoming even more marginalized. We show that ecosystem degradation and restoration alike can impact the well-being of the urban poor. People's experiences allowed us to couple ecosystem change to well-being through ES and adaptation strategies. Hence, we revealed multiple cause-effect relations. Understanding these relations contributes to sustainable urban development for people from all layers of society.

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“…The lessons learned from these evaluations: 1) the importance of the local context: the identity of slogans resulted in completely different solutions in case of countries with differing traditions and practices [Pollitt and Bouckaert, 2011]; 2) the practical application of the basic axioms did not work out as expected 3 . Even the pioneering NPM countries such as Great-Britain, Australia or New-Zealand reconsidered their approach on public services in light of the results [Warner, 2012]. Dunleavy and his co-authors (2006) report on the termination and reversing of a number of key factors in case of the above pioneering countries, and Warner [2008Warner [ , 2010 also discusses the trends on reversing outsourcing and privatisation, and the expansion of mixed services.…”

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Planning practices of local governments based on the results of an empirical research

Sisa¹

2014

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Abstract:The purpose of this study is to explore the most important findings of the empirical research conducted amongst local governments of settlements in Hungary, in order to perform a comprehensive analysis on their practices and methods regarding planning. The primary research was conducted in the spring of 2013, with respondent local governments answering relevant questions by submitting a selfadministered questionnaire. The main purpose of the questionnaire survey was to find out whether the involved parties perform actual formal strategic and operative planning activities, and what kind of management planning methods -solutions already working and widespread in the business sector -they apply within the process of planning. In this study, we attempt to conduct a comprehensive analysis on modern planning systems and to appoint the fields that need to be improved, through the results of the questionnaire survey and our own experiences.

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Privatization and urban governance: The continuing challenges of efficiency, voice and integration

Cited by 97 publications

References 44 publications

The Institutional Collective Action Framework

The Institutional Collective Action Framework

Shifts in ecosystem services in deprived urban areas: understanding people’s responses and consequences for well-being

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Cited by 97 publications

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