Project Head:
Alexandra Lux
Project Team:
Thomas Kluge
Alexandra Lux
Engelbert Schramm
Funding:
Verbraucher-Zentrale NRW, Gruppe Umwelt (www.vz-nrw.de)
Duration:
10/00 - 03/01
Field of research
Research Area:
area water
about the Institute
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Recommendations for Consumer Protection
The research project "Privatisation and Competition in Drinking Water
Supply" aimed at the integration of consumer concerns in the debate on
privatisation and competition in the (German) drinking water markets. The study
was commissioned by the "Verbraucher-Zentrale Nordrhein-Westfalen" (Consumer Council in
Northrhine-Westphalia). It was directed at
preparing a concept for their work as an interest group on the one hand and for
concrete consumer information on the other hand. Its goal was to strengthen an
integrated view on consumer protection that is currently lacking in the general
debate, where only isolated issues like water quality or different market forms
are discussed.
The project has finished and the results are published by the
Verbraucher-Zentrale NRW. At the URL http://www.vz-nrw.de/dir160A you can find the documentation
of the whole study: Besides our study on general aspects of consumer protection
there you can download considerations on special legal aspects of privatisation
and liberalisation of drinking water supply and the postulation of the
Verbraucher-Zentrale. The study published by ISOE is also available on this
side (pdf-file 192 kb - only
available in german).
More information about the project and background
information
Additional Literature:
The discussion paper "Privatisation in Water Industry. Perspectives
for a Social-Ecological Research" (ISOE-DP 17
abstract) aims at the necessities of a social-ecological perspective in the
discussion on privatisation and liberalisation of (German) water supply and
sewage.
Kluge,
Thomas/Alexandra Lux (2001):
Privatisierung in der Wasserwirtschaft. Sozial-ökologische
Forschungsperspektiven. ISOE-DP 17. Frankfurt am Main, 31 S., DM 7.-
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