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Political and Professional Agency Entrapment: An Agenda for Urban Water Research

verfasst von: Rebekah Brown, Richard Ashley, Megan Farrelly

Erschienen in: Water Resources Management | Ausgabe 15/2011

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The many societal benefits provided by traditional, centralised urban water servicing models are being re-examined following recent extreme weather events, climate uncertainty and other variable socio-technical trends. Total water cycle management offers a more flexible and resilient approach to urban water management, however, transformative change in the sector is difficult. A growing number of scholars have identified that the urban water sector is locked-in to the current large-scale, centralised infrastructure model and suggest the sector is unable to accommodate new technologies and management approaches beyond niche projects. Based on extensive socio-institutional research and example cases from Australian and United Kingdom experiences managing urban water under pressures such as modern environmentalism, prolonged water scarcity and sewerage overflows, this paper provides a commentary on common factors exhibited in both countries related to technological path dependency. Three key factors promoting this pathway: political risk, professional agency fear and a lack of a hybrid governance approach are discussed and a future scholarly research agenda is presented.

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Titel: Political and Professional Agency Entrapment: An Agenda for Urban Water Research
verfasst von: Rebekah Brown
Richard Ashley
Megan Farrelly
Publikationsdatum: 01.12.2011
Verlag: Springer Netherlands
Erschienen in: Water Resources Management / Ausgabe 15/2011
Print ISSN: 0920-4741
Elektronische ISSN: 1573-1650
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11269-011-9886-y

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