by Riccardo Petrella · Icaria editorial · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788474265934
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«El manifiesto del agua» is the essay by Riccardo Petrella, published by Icaria editorial in paperback (135 pages, in Spanish).
Riccardo Petrella denounces that some 1.5 billion people lack drinking water, a figure that could double in twenty years. He criticizes corporate interests that turn water into a commodity and proposes a World Water Contract to recognize it as a human right and ensure its public and community management.
The book, with a foreword by Mario Soares, was published in 2002 with the subtitle «Argumentos a favor de un Convenio Mundial del Agua».
For readers interested in ecology, human rights, and public water policies.
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Riccardo Petrella is an Italian political scientist and economist; he has a doctorate in political sciences from the University of Florence). Currently professor emeritus at the University of Louvain, he participates in a tradition that unites Christianity, personalism and solidarity principles. In 1991, he founded the Lisbon Group, which was composed of 21 academic, business, media and cultural decision-makers, so as to enhance the critical analyses of the current globalization. He is also a member of the World Social Forum and the Porto Alegre Manifesto.
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