Foreign Companies, Public Intervention, and Ecological Crisis: Water in Seville, 1871-1959
Title
Foreign Companies, Public Intervention, and Ecological Crisis: Water in Seville, 1871-1959Author(s)
Date
2023Citation
Martínez-López, A. (2023). Foreign Companies, Public Intervention, and Ecological Crisis: Water in Seville, 1871–1959. In: Juan Manuel Matés-Barco & María Vázquez-Fariñas (Eds.), Ecological Crisis and Water Supply. The Case of Andalusia in the Spanish Hydrological Context (pp. 121-143). Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004679634_008
Abstract
[Abstract] This chapter seeks to analyse, from a business history perspective, the role played by British capital in the management of the water supply in Seville for almost seventy-five years through the company Seville Waterworks. Using primary business and public sources, it examines the origin of the company, its shareholding and organisational structure and business results, which were conditioned by demographics and rainfall, the different economic situations, and the public regulations, all within the framework of the evolution of the water sector in Spain and the British investment abroad.
Keywords
Water supply
Foreign British investment
Free standing company
Ecological crisis
Municipalisation
Foreign British investment
Free standing company
Ecological crisis
Municipalisation
Description
This version of the chapter has been accepted for publication, after peer review, but is not the Version of Record and does not reflect post-acceptance improvements, or any corrections. The Version of Record is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004679634_008
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ISBN
978-90-04-67963-4 978-90-04-54131-3