L’eau potable pourrait-elle devenir un bien commun ?

In France, the hegemony of drinking water considered as a commodity has been disputed for two to three decades by a rather heterogeneous set of associations and coalitions supporting its replacement by an alternative conception, that of drinking water as a “common good”. This reference is sometimes...

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Main Authors: Rémi Barbier, Bernard Barraqué, Cécile Tindon
Format: Article
Language:fra
Published: Réseau Développement Durable et Territoires Fragiles 2020-07-01
Series:Développement Durable et Territoires
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/developpementdurable/13231
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Summary:In France, the hegemony of drinking water considered as a commodity has been disputed for two to three decades by a rather heterogeneous set of associations and coalitions supporting its replacement by an alternative conception, that of drinking water as a “common good”. This reference is sometimes put forward as a simple standard, supposed to impose itself with the sole force of evidence. Taking it seriously, we develop a cross-disciplinary prospect on a possible conception of drinking water as a common good. After showing the difficulty to use either the institutional economic framework or the “right to water” approach, we explore an anthropologic perspective based on the notion of “coexistent space”.
ISSN:1772-9971