ABSTRACT
List of Figures Figure 1 Structure of the thesis ......................................................................................4 Figure 2 Governance and regulatory interface.............................................................14 Figure 3 Neo-liberal manifestations.............................................................................28 Figure 4 Deliberate and emergent strategies................................................................53 Figure 5 The uni-dimensional taxonomic approach ....................................................58 Figure 6 Typological scheme for the five defined strategic components ....................59 Figure 7 Main analytical framework of the thesis .......................................................71 Figure 8 The types of ownership: a discrete ordinal variable......................................73 Figure 9 Performance, an ordinal continuous scale .....................................................80 Figure 10 Conceptual regulated transaction framework of the WSS sector ................86 Figure 11 Drivers and constraints to liberalising the European WSS sector ...............99 Figure 12 Liberalisation drivers and constraints related to the management entity ..100 Figure 13 Drivers and constraints related to the responsible entity...........................102 Figure 14 Overview matrix management structures European WSS sector..............106 Figure 15 European scenarios....................................................................................116 Figure 16 Basic organisation of each water company in England and Wales ...........133 Figure 17 Map of St. Maarten/St. Martin ..................................................................140 Figure 18 Italian institutional set-up based on Galli law reform ..............................161 Figure 19 Analytical framework of the thesis – completed.......................................200 List of Boxes Box 1 Historical development of strategic planning in the Netherlands .....................49 Box 2 Swedish illustration of market relationships .....................................................92 Box 3 Popularity of private sector involvement in the Caribbean.............................143 Box 4 ANOVA analysis.............................................................................................168
