The collective action for water in colombia and the referendum as direct democracy approach

The analysis of collective action in defense of water takes up the history of mobilization in the country from 1909 to 2009, the management of community aqueducts, and consolidated the use of legal tools, up to the referendum on the water as significant moment of mobilization, identifying how causes change with privatization, legislation and marketing of commons and services of natural resources, carrying to a time of political commitment and a participatory and direct democracy, to the consecration of water as a human right, through a referendum of a citizens' initiative, placing the issue on the public agenda with access to a basic minimum of water as a mechanism to achieve the right to water, the strengthening of community aqueducts and discussion about the legislative process of the referendum.

• Autores: Gómez Bustos, Ivette Johanna
• Tipo de recurso: Article of journal
• Fecha de publicación: 2014
• Institución: Universidad Nacional de Colombia
• Repositorio: Universidad Nacional de Colombia
• Idioma: spa
• OAI Identifier: oai:repositorio.unal.edu.co:unal/49754
• Acceso en línea: https://repositorio.unal.edu.co/handle/unal/49754; http://bdigital.unal.edu.co/43242/; http://bdigital.unal.edu.co/43242/2/
• Palabra clave: Acción Colectiva; Movimiento Social; Democracia Directa; Derecho Humano al Agua; Referendo; Collective Action; Social Movement; Direct Democracy; The Right to Water; Referendum
• Rights: openAccess
• License: Atribución-NoComercial 4.0 Internacional