privatization

This film investigates the increasing trend towards privatizing control of water resources, and the response of cities, organizations, municipalities, and communities.

This film examines the pros and cons of the financialization of nature, an approach which some believe can make up for failed political solutions.

This film follows the results of water privatization in Germany and England.

The film examines the social and ecological consequences of the Turkey’s South-East-Anatolia-Project (GAP), designed to enable energy production and irrigation on a huge scale.

The paper examines the increasing trend of philanthropic bodies and private individuals to invest in the conservation of Australia’s biodiversity. This is seen as part of a more general Western trend in which Australian organizations are linked to bodies such as the large US-based Nature Conservancy.

Disrupted Landscapes focuses on the emblematic case of postsocialist Romania, in which the transition from collectivization to privatization profoundly reshaped the nation’s forests, farmlands, and rivers.

One of the world’s largest dams, Ralco, on the river Biobío in Chile, opened in 2004 after numerous clashes with the Mapuche people. The land of this ancient indigenous community has been flooded by Endesa, the Spanish multinational company.

This volume provides a renewed vision of the issue of collective properties, an issue previously distorted by passions, and now mostly forgotten.

A report on the activities and debates at the fifth World Water Forum held at Istanbul in March 2009.