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arctic China circular economy Critical realist modelling disability dividends efficiency electric buses electric trains England and Wales evidence finance costs financialisation Global North Global South history of economics house price human rights human rights to water and sanitation infrastructure investment insourcing institutional change international lessons labour leakage lived experience Maceió migration mutuals nationalisation onto-ethical nexus postwar recovery PPPs private equity privatisation public ownership public participation public sector alternative public service reform public services public transport recycling regulation regulatory capture rent-seeking SDG6 sewage pollution sewerage social contract sustainable development sustainable water development UK Ukraine URC waste to energy water water affordability water and sanitation water poverty water service reform water supply water supply and sanitation welfare professionals workshop
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arctic

Pauksztat, Birgit, Bliksvaer, Trond, Fabritius, Merete Kvamme, Elixhauser, Sophie, Ferrara, Annapia, Weber, Ryan and William, Laura ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1985-7640 (2024) Indigenous people with disabilities in the arctic. The Polar Journal. ISSN 2154-896X (Print), 2154-8978 (Online) (doi:10.1080/2154896X.2024.2391216)

China

Hall, David, Weghmann, Vera and Adam, Al-Hassan (2026) Private equity involvement in Public Transport Services: a critical global review. [Working Paper]

circular economy

Weghmann, Vera (2024) Waste to energy: a privatised false solution. In: Buxton, Nick, (ed.) Energy, Power and Transition: 2024 State of Power. Transnational Institute (TNI), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, pp. 139-147.

Critical realist modelling

Gray, Conor and Lobina, Emanuele ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4774-0308 (2025) Unpacking Fred Lee’s CR-GT-ADR black box: an exercise in the critical realist modelling of water reform in England and Wales. In: 27th Annual Conference of the Association of Heterodox Economics (AHE), 18th - 20th June, 2025, King’s College London, London, UK.

disability

Pauksztat, Birgit, Bliksvaer, Trond, Fabritius, Merete Kvamme, Elixhauser, Sophie, Ferrara, Annapia, Weber, Ryan and William, Laura ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1985-7640 (2024) Indigenous people with disabilities in the arctic. The Polar Journal. ISSN 2154-896X (Print), 2154-8978 (Online) (doi:10.1080/2154896X.2024.2391216)

dividends

Hall, David and Lobina, Emanuele ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4774-0308 (2024) Clean water: a case for public ownership. In: UNISON Water, Environment and Transport (WET) Conference Fringe, 16th June, 2024, Brighton, UK. (Unpublished)

efficiency

Hall, David and Lobina, Emanuele ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4774-0308 (2024) Clean water: a case for public ownership. In: UNISON Water, Environment and Transport (WET) Conference Fringe, 16th June, 2024, Brighton, UK. (Unpublished)

electric buses

Hall, David, Weghmann, Vera and Adam, Al-Hassan (2026) Private equity involvement in Public Transport Services: a critical global review. [Working Paper]

electric trains

Hall, David, Weghmann, Vera and Adam, Al-Hassan (2026) Private equity involvement in Public Transport Services: a critical global review. [Working Paper]

England and Wales

Gray, Conor and Lobina, Emanuele ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4774-0308 (2025) Unpacking Fred Lee’s CR-GT-ADR black box: an exercise in the critical realist modelling of water reform in England and Wales. In: 27th Annual Conference of the Association of Heterodox Economics (AHE), 18th - 20th June, 2025, King’s College London, London, UK.

Hall, David and Lobina, Emanuele ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4774-0308 (2024) Clean water: a case for public ownership. In: UNISON Water, Environment and Transport (WET) Conference Fringe, 16th June, 2024, Brighton, UK. (Unpublished)

evidence

Lethbridge, Jane ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0094-9967 (2024) Evidence for a new social contract – the role of welfare professionals. In: European Group for Public Administration (EGPA) 2024 CONFERENCE, PERMANENT STUDY GROUP XX: Welfare State Governance and Professionalism, 04-06 Sep 2024, Athens, Greece. (Unpublished)

finance costs

Hall, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3574-8863 and Gray, Conor (2025) Leaking money. The finance costs of privatised water and regulation in England and Wales: Scottish public ownership shows potential savings. [Working Paper]

financialisation

Barra, Bárbara, Lobina, Emanuele ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4774-0308 and Heller, Léo (2026) When means undermine ends: an extreme case of financialised water privatisation in Brazil. Water Security, 28:100207. ISSN 2468-3124 (Online) (doi:10.1016/j.wasec.2026.100207)

Lobina, Emanuele ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4774-0308 (2025) The delusional economics of water: a critique of the global commission on the economics of water. In: Seminar: “Politicas públicas y justicia hídrica ante la finanziarización del agua”, organised by Red Agua Pública, 24th March, 2025, Spanish Parliament, Madrid. (Unpublished)

Global North

Lobina, Emanuele ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4774-0308 (2025) The delusional economics of water: a critique of the global commission on the economics of water. In: Seminar: “Politicas públicas y justicia hídrica ante la finanziarización del agua”, organised by Red Agua Pública, 24th March, 2025, Spanish Parliament, Madrid. (Unpublished)

Global South

Lobina, Emanuele ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4774-0308 (2025) The delusional economics of water: a critique of the global commission on the economics of water. In: Seminar: “Politicas públicas y justicia hídrica ante la finanziarización del agua”, organised by Red Agua Pública, 24th March, 2025, Spanish Parliament, Madrid. (Unpublished)

history of economics

Hall, David and Lobina, Emanuele ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4774-0308 (2024) Clean water: a case for public ownership. In: UNISON Water, Environment and Transport (WET) Conference Fringe, 16th June, 2024, Brighton, UK. (Unpublished)

house price

Rabensteiner, Thomas ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9289-3579, Sangwan, Navjot and Tasciotti, Luca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2561-5530 (2026) Migration and housing costs: what does international evidence imply for the UK? [Working Paper]

human rights

Barra, Bárbara, Lobina, Emanuele ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4774-0308 and Heller, Léo (2026) When means undermine ends: an extreme case of financialised water privatisation in Brazil. Water Security, 28:100207. ISSN 2468-3124 (Online) (doi:10.1016/j.wasec.2026.100207)

human rights to water and sanitation

Lobina, Emanuele ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4774-0308 (2025) The delusional economics of water: a critique of the global commission on the economics of water. In: Seminar: “Politicas públicas y justicia hídrica ante la finanziarización del agua”, organised by Red Agua Pública, 24th March, 2025, Spanish Parliament, Madrid. (Unpublished)

infrastructure investment

Hall, David and Lobina, Emanuele ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4774-0308 (2024) Clean water: a case for public ownership. In: UNISON Water, Environment and Transport (WET) Conference Fringe, 16th June, 2024, Brighton, UK. (Unpublished)

insourcing

Hall, David and Lobina, Emanuele ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4774-0308 (2024) Clean water: a case for public ownership. In: UNISON Water, Environment and Transport (WET) Conference Fringe, 16th June, 2024, Brighton, UK. (Unpublished)

institutional change

Hall, David and Lobina, Emanuele ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4774-0308 (2024) Clean water: a case for public ownership. In: UNISON Water, Environment and Transport (WET) Conference Fringe, 16th June, 2024, Brighton, UK. (Unpublished)

international lessons

Hall, David and Lobina, Emanuele ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4774-0308 (2024) Clean water: a case for public ownership. In: UNISON Water, Environment and Transport (WET) Conference Fringe, 16th June, 2024, Brighton, UK. (Unpublished)

labour

Yurchenko, Yuliya (2026) Progressive pathways for a resilient (re)construction of Ukraine: Towards a new social contract. Report. Foundation for European Progressive Studies (FEPS), Brussels.

leakage

Hall, David and Lobina, Emanuele ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4774-0308 (2024) Clean water: a case for public ownership. In: UNISON Water, Environment and Transport (WET) Conference Fringe, 16th June, 2024, Brighton, UK. (Unpublished)

lived experience

Pauksztat, Birgit, Bliksvaer, Trond, Fabritius, Merete Kvamme, Elixhauser, Sophie, Ferrara, Annapia, Weber, Ryan and William, Laura ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1985-7640 (2024) Indigenous people with disabilities in the arctic. The Polar Journal. ISSN 2154-896X (Print), 2154-8978 (Online) (doi:10.1080/2154896X.2024.2391216)

Maceió

Barra, Bárbara, Lobina, Emanuele ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4774-0308 and Heller, Léo (2026) When means undermine ends: an extreme case of financialised water privatisation in Brazil. Water Security, 28:100207. ISSN 2468-3124 (Online) (doi:10.1016/j.wasec.2026.100207)

migration

Rabensteiner, Thomas ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9289-3579, Sangwan, Navjot and Tasciotti, Luca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2561-5530 (2026) Migration and housing costs: what does international evidence imply for the UK? [Working Paper]

mutuals

Hall, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3574-8863 (2026) Why the GGF paper proposing mutuals for water is wrong. [Working Paper] (Unpublished)

nationalisation

Hall, David and Lobina, Emanuele ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4774-0308 (2024) Clean water: a case for public ownership. In: UNISON Water, Environment and Transport (WET) Conference Fringe, 16th June, 2024, Brighton, UK. (Unpublished)

onto-ethical nexus

Gray, Conor and Lobina, Emanuele ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4774-0308 (2025) Unpacking Fred Lee’s CR-GT-ADR black box: an exercise in the critical realist modelling of water reform in England and Wales. In: 27th Annual Conference of the Association of Heterodox Economics (AHE), 18th - 20th June, 2025, King’s College London, London, UK.

postwar recovery

Yurchenko, Yuliya (2026) Progressive pathways for a resilient (re)construction of Ukraine: Towards a new social contract. Report. Foundation for European Progressive Studies (FEPS), Brussels.

PPPs

Lobina, Emanuele ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4774-0308 (2025) The delusional economics of water: a critique of the global commission on the economics of water. In: Seminar: “Politicas públicas y justicia hídrica ante la finanziarización del agua”, organised by Red Agua Pública, 24th March, 2025, Spanish Parliament, Madrid. (Unpublished)

private equity

Barra, Bárbara, Lobina, Emanuele ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4774-0308 and Heller, Léo (2026) When means undermine ends: an extreme case of financialised water privatisation in Brazil. Water Security, 28:100207. ISSN 2468-3124 (Online) (doi:10.1016/j.wasec.2026.100207)

Hall, David, Weghmann, Vera and Adam, Al-Hassan (2026) Private equity involvement in Public Transport Services: a critical global review. [Working Paper]

privatisation

Barra, Bárbara, Lobina, Emanuele ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4774-0308 and Heller, Léo (2026) When means undermine ends: an extreme case of financialised water privatisation in Brazil. Water Security, 28:100207. ISSN 2468-3124 (Online) (doi:10.1016/j.wasec.2026.100207)

Hall, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3574-8863 (2026) Why the GGF paper proposing mutuals for water is wrong. [Working Paper] (Unpublished)

Hall, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3574-8863 and Gray, Conor (2025) Leaking money. The finance costs of privatised water and regulation in England and Wales: Scottish public ownership shows potential savings. [Working Paper]

Hall, David, Lobina, Emanuele ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4774-0308 and Gray, Conor (2026) Clean water: a case for public ownership (2026). [Working Paper]

Hall, David and Lobina, Emanuele ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4774-0308 (2024) Clean water: a case for public ownership. In: UNISON Water, Environment and Transport (WET) Conference Fringe, 16th June, 2024, Brighton, UK. (Unpublished)

Lobina, Emanuele ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4774-0308 (2025) The delusional economics of water: a critique of the global commission on the economics of water. In: Seminar: “Politicas públicas y justicia hídrica ante la finanziarización del agua”, organised by Red Agua Pública, 24th March, 2025, Spanish Parliament, Madrid. (Unpublished)

public ownership

Hall, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3574-8863 and Gray, Conor (2025) Leaking money. The finance costs of privatised water and regulation in England and Wales: Scottish public ownership shows potential savings. [Working Paper]

Hall, David, Lobina, Emanuele ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4774-0308 and Gray, Conor (2026) Clean water: a case for public ownership (2026). [Working Paper]

Hall, David and Lobina, Emanuele ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4774-0308 (2024) Clean water: a case for public ownership. In: UNISON Water, Environment and Transport (WET) Conference Fringe, 16th June, 2024, Brighton, UK. (Unpublished)

public participation

Hall, David and Lobina, Emanuele ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4774-0308 (2024) Clean water: a case for public ownership. In: UNISON Water, Environment and Transport (WET) Conference Fringe, 16th June, 2024, Brighton, UK. (Unpublished)

public sector alternative

Lobina, Emanuele ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4774-0308 (2025) The delusional economics of water: a critique of the global commission on the economics of water. In: Seminar: “Politicas públicas y justicia hídrica ante la finanziarización del agua”, organised by Red Agua Pública, 24th March, 2025, Spanish Parliament, Madrid. (Unpublished)

public service reform

Hall, David and Lobina, Emanuele ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4774-0308 (2024) Clean water: a case for public ownership. In: UNISON Water, Environment and Transport (WET) Conference Fringe, 16th June, 2024, Brighton, UK. (Unpublished)

public services

Yurchenko, Yuliya (2026) Progressive pathways for a resilient (re)construction of Ukraine: Towards a new social contract. Report. Foundation for European Progressive Studies (FEPS), Brussels.

public transport

Hall, David, Weghmann, Vera and Adam, Al-Hassan (2026) Private equity involvement in Public Transport Services: a critical global review. [Working Paper]

recycling

Weghmann, Vera (2024) Waste to energy: a privatised false solution. In: Buxton, Nick, (ed.) Energy, Power and Transition: 2024 State of Power. Transnational Institute (TNI), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, pp. 139-147.

regulation

Hall, David and Lobina, Emanuele ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4774-0308 (2024) Clean water: a case for public ownership. In: UNISON Water, Environment and Transport (WET) Conference Fringe, 16th June, 2024, Brighton, UK. (Unpublished)

regulatory capture

Hall, David and Lobina, Emanuele ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4774-0308 (2024) Clean water: a case for public ownership. In: UNISON Water, Environment and Transport (WET) Conference Fringe, 16th June, 2024, Brighton, UK. (Unpublished)

rent-seeking

Hall, David and Lobina, Emanuele ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4774-0308 (2024) Clean water: a case for public ownership. In: UNISON Water, Environment and Transport (WET) Conference Fringe, 16th June, 2024, Brighton, UK. (Unpublished)

SDG6

Lobina, Emanuele ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4774-0308 (2025) The delusional economics of water: a critique of the global commission on the economics of water. In: Seminar: “Politicas públicas y justicia hídrica ante la finanziarización del agua”, organised by Red Agua Pública, 24th March, 2025, Spanish Parliament, Madrid. (Unpublished)

sewage pollution

Hall, David and Lobina, Emanuele ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4774-0308 (2024) Clean water: a case for public ownership. In: UNISON Water, Environment and Transport (WET) Conference Fringe, 16th June, 2024, Brighton, UK. (Unpublished)

sewerage

Hall, David, Lobina, Emanuele ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4774-0308 and Gray, Conor (2026) Clean water: a case for public ownership (2026). [Working Paper]

Hall, David and Lobina, Emanuele ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4774-0308 (2024) Clean water: a case for public ownership. In: UNISON Water, Environment and Transport (WET) Conference Fringe, 16th June, 2024, Brighton, UK. (Unpublished)

social contract

Lethbridge, Jane ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0094-9967 (2024) Evidence for a new social contract – the role of welfare professionals. In: European Group for Public Administration (EGPA) 2024 CONFERENCE, PERMANENT STUDY GROUP XX: Welfare State Governance and Professionalism, 04-06 Sep 2024, Athens, Greece. (Unpublished)

sustainable development

Gray, Conor and Lobina, Emanuele ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4774-0308 (2025) Unpacking Fred Lee’s CR-GT-ADR black box: an exercise in the critical realist modelling of water reform in England and Wales. In: 27th Annual Conference of the Association of Heterodox Economics (AHE), 18th - 20th June, 2025, King’s College London, London, UK.

sustainable water development

Lobina, Emanuele ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4774-0308 (2025) The delusional economics of water: a critique of the global commission on the economics of water. In: Seminar: “Politicas públicas y justicia hídrica ante la finanziarización del agua”, organised by Red Agua Pública, 24th March, 2025, Spanish Parliament, Madrid. (Unpublished)

UK

Rabensteiner, Thomas ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9289-3579, Sangwan, Navjot and Tasciotti, Luca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2561-5530 (2026) Migration and housing costs: what does international evidence imply for the UK? [Working Paper]

Ukraine

Yurchenko, Yuliya (2026) Progressive pathways for a resilient (re)construction of Ukraine: Towards a new social contract. Report. Foundation for European Progressive Studies (FEPS), Brussels.

URC

Yurchenko, Yuliya (2026) Progressive pathways for a resilient (re)construction of Ukraine: Towards a new social contract. Report. Foundation for European Progressive Studies (FEPS), Brussels.

waste to energy

Weghmann, Vera (2024) Waste to energy: a privatised false solution. In: Buxton, Nick, (ed.) Energy, Power and Transition: 2024 State of Power. Transnational Institute (TNI), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, pp. 139-147.

water

Hall, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3574-8863 (2026) Why the GGF paper proposing mutuals for water is wrong. [Working Paper] (Unpublished)

Hall, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3574-8863 and Gray, Conor (2025) Leaking money. The finance costs of privatised water and regulation in England and Wales: Scottish public ownership shows potential savings. [Working Paper]

Hall, David, Lobina, Emanuele ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4774-0308 and Gray, Conor (2026) Clean water: a case for public ownership (2026). [Working Paper]

water affordability

Hall, David and Lobina, Emanuele ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4774-0308 (2024) Clean water: a case for public ownership. In: UNISON Water, Environment and Transport (WET) Conference Fringe, 16th June, 2024, Brighton, UK. (Unpublished)

water and sanitation

Barra, Bárbara, Lobina, Emanuele ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4774-0308 and Heller, Léo (2026) When means undermine ends: an extreme case of financialised water privatisation in Brazil. Water Security, 28:100207. ISSN 2468-3124 (Online) (doi:10.1016/j.wasec.2026.100207)

water poverty

Gray, Conor and Lobina, Emanuele ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4774-0308 (2025) Unpacking Fred Lee’s CR-GT-ADR black box: an exercise in the critical realist modelling of water reform in England and Wales. In: 27th Annual Conference of the Association of Heterodox Economics (AHE), 18th - 20th June, 2025, King’s College London, London, UK.

Hall, David and Lobina, Emanuele ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4774-0308 (2024) Clean water: a case for public ownership. In: UNISON Water, Environment and Transport (WET) Conference Fringe, 16th June, 2024, Brighton, UK. (Unpublished)

water service reform

Gray, Conor and Lobina, Emanuele ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4774-0308 (2025) Unpacking Fred Lee’s CR-GT-ADR black box: an exercise in the critical realist modelling of water reform in England and Wales. In: 27th Annual Conference of the Association of Heterodox Economics (AHE), 18th - 20th June, 2025, King’s College London, London, UK.

water supply

Hall, David and Lobina, Emanuele ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4774-0308 (2024) Clean water: a case for public ownership. In: UNISON Water, Environment and Transport (WET) Conference Fringe, 16th June, 2024, Brighton, UK. (Unpublished)

water supply and sanitation

Lobina, Emanuele ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4774-0308 (2025) The delusional economics of water: a critique of the global commission on the economics of water. In: Seminar: “Politicas públicas y justicia hídrica ante la finanziarización del agua”, organised by Red Agua Pública, 24th March, 2025, Spanish Parliament, Madrid. (Unpublished)

welfare professionals

Lethbridge, Jane ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0094-9967 (2024) Evidence for a new social contract – the role of welfare professionals. In: European Group for Public Administration (EGPA) 2024 CONFERENCE, PERMANENT STUDY GROUP XX: Welfare State Governance and Professionalism, 04-06 Sep 2024, Athens, Greece. (Unpublished)

workshop

Pauksztat, Birgit, Bliksvaer, Trond, Fabritius, Merete Kvamme, Elixhauser, Sophie, Ferrara, Annapia, Weber, Ryan and William, Laura ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1985-7640 (2024) Indigenous people with disabilities in the arctic. The Polar Journal. ISSN 2154-896X (Print), 2154-8978 (Online) (doi:10.1080/2154896X.2024.2391216)

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