| 来源类型 | Article |
| 规范类型 | 其他 |
| Viewpoint – Pouring money down the drain: Can we break the habit by reconceiving wastes as resources? | |
| Beck MB; Thompson M; Gyawali D; Langan S; Linnerooth-Bayer J | |
| 发表日期 | 2018 |
| 出处 | Water Alternatives 11 (2): 260-283. |
| 出版年 | 2018 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | As water-sector professionals re-discover the value in the 'waste' conveyed in 'waste'water, this Viewpoint argues that the theory of plural rationality (also known as Cultural Theory) may accelerate the switch from waste management to resource recovery. Accordingly, it extends the framing of plural rationality, from its traditional applications in matters of governance and social and economic analysis, to the beginnings of a set of plural schools of engineering thought. This sounds controversial. Indeed, we hope it is. For all too often ways to resolve water issues end up in the impasse of two deeply entrenched positions: the 'technocratic reductionism' of the 'quick engineering fix' to problem solving; and the 'participatory holism' of the 'local, socially sensitive, integrationist' approach. Plural rationality sees this is an impoverished duopoly. Our very strong preference is to find ways of promoting the creative interplay among plural (more than two), mutually opposed, contending ways of framing a problem and resolving it. This, we argue, should not only expand the portfolio of possible alternatives for technology-policy interventions, but also lead to the chosen alternative being preferable — in social, economic, and environmental terms — to what might otherwise have happened. Such solutions are called 'clumsy' in plural rationality theory. We use a synopsis of a case history of restoring water quality in the River Rhine in Europe, within a wider account of the sweep of resource recovery spanning two centuries (late 18th Century through early 21st Century), to illustrate how clumsiness works. This, however, does not extend to our elaborating our proposed set of plural schools of engineering thought beyond just its very beginnings. Our Viewpoint allows us merely to start framing the challenge of developing, and eventually applying, such a notion. |
| 主题 | Risk & ; Resilience (RISK) ; Water (WAT) |
| 关键词 | Circular economy clumsiness, Cultural Theory, lock-in, nutrient recovery, plural rationality, plural schools of engineering thought, Rhine restoration, technological invention and innovation, urban metabolism |
| URL | http://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/eprint/15332/ |
| 来源智库 | International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (Austria) |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/131221 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Beck MB,Thompson M,Gyawali D,等. Viewpoint – Pouring money down the drain: Can we break the habit by reconceiving wastes as resources?. 2018. |
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