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TERRITORIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL DEVELOPMENT THROUGH
MODELS OF PUBLIC/PRIVATE GOVERNANCE. A DETAILED STUDY
ON ENVIRONMENTAL LOCAL PUBLIC UTILITIES (LPUs) UNDER
EUROPEAN FRAMEWORK DIRECTIVE 2000/60.
Cristina D’Andrea, Black & Veatch Italia, Via Silvio D’Amico 40, 00145
Roma, [email protected].
Marialuce Mariniello, TFA Ministero dell'Ambiente e della Tutela del
Territorio Direzione Ricerca Ambientale e Sviluppo Via Bracco 15 - 80132,
Napoli, [email protected].
Tiziana Vitolo , Istituto di Studi sulle Società del Mediterraneo ISSM CNR
Via Pietro Castellino, 111, 80131 Napoli, [email protected].
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
1 Introduction.
2 Local development policies from a governance perspective: roles and powers
in terms of LPUs.
2.1. Short hints at the evolution of National and Community regulations and
laws through the role of the stakeholders involved in the “discipline of waters”.
3 Hypothesis of establishment of a system to regulate/organize water
distribution services in the form of environmental LPUs: the case of the Region
Campania.
Abstract
The present study focuses on a crucial issue which is closely related to
innovative global/local scale-designed approach and management forms that
highlight the existence of a genuine trade-off between the tools of
environmental policy and the logics of liberalization and enhancement of the
potentials of environmental public utilities thus giving rise, within Community
policies, to a holistc view of the water sector that considers the “discipline of
waters” as an integral part of the broader “environmental policy” which is
focused on the role of local public utilities that are more and more required to
establish relations with multiple subjects in a perspective of governance.
Unfortunately though, the contributions to the debate on this controversial