The economic geography of urban water infrastructure investment and governance – a comparison of Beijing and London

Thesis

Urban infrastructure is the key physical asset for successful functioning of modern cities. Yet the building and maintaining infrastructure networks require robust institutions, either expressed explicitly in rules and regulations or implicitly in social norms and mutual expectations, which are crucial for governing the complex relationships among all stakeholders including governments, regulators, investors, utilities and consumers that underpin the production of infrastructure services. ...

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Authors: Yang, Y

• DOI: 10.5287/ora-9rqpv8y2b
• Type of award: DPhil
• Level of award: Doctoral
• Awarding institution: University of Oxford