Modernization and Urban Water Governance

Thomas Bolognesi is a senior researcher at the University of Geneva and member of the UNESCO Chairs programme in Hydropolitics. His fields of research include political economy and institutional and organizational economics.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. UWSEs Organization and Modernization: Similarities and Variations.- 3. UWSEs Sustainability and Modernization: Achievements and Main Challenges.- 4. The Microinstitutional Determinants of Depolitization and Resilience in UWSEs.- 5. The Macroinstituional Determinants of Depolitization and Resilience in UWSEs.- 6. Institutional Dynamics and Sustainability: The Trade-Off Between Broader Regulation.- 7. Conclusion.