Drivers and barriers to change in desalinated water governance in the GCC: a comparative approach to water privatisations in Abu Dhabi, Doha and Kuwait City

Thesis

The global water crisis has often been presented as a crisis of governance and attributed to various factors, including the slowness of institutional adjustments to rapid structural challenges such as demographic growth, resource degradation and economic difficulties (UNU-INWEH, 2012). Despite the rapid growth of cities around the world and a fast increase in the use of desalination for freshwater supply (WHO, 2011), the dynamics of institutional change in desalinated urban water governanc...

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Authors: Lambert, LA

• Publication date: 2013
• DOI: 10.5287/ora-vmoyv4qbx
• Type of award: DPhil
• Level of award: Doctoral
• Awarding institution: University of Oxford
• Language: English
• Keywords: Kuwait; privatization; Doha; desalination; water; Abu Dhabi; Qatar; GCC
• Subjects: Human development; Anthropology of policy; Geography; International studies; Political ideologies; Middle East; Islam; Social Sciences; Governance and ethics; Political science