Risk and Governance in Water Recycling
Risk and Governance in Water Recycling
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水循环利用的风险与治理
DOI：
10.1177/0162243905283636
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发表时间：
2006
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通讯作者：
N. Ashbolt
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作者：
N. Stenekes;H. Colebatch;T. Waite;N. Ashbolt
公众的接受度通常被认为是水回收技术被（接受或）拒绝的一个关键原因。一个常见的假设是，项目失败是因为公众无法理解有关风险的专业信息，并认为如果公众更好地了解情况，他们会更容易接受变化。这篇文章表明，有关接受的言论是适得其反的进展可持续性，因为它不解决有关的制度安排的问题，并加强了专家和外行群体之间的二分法。相反，有人认为，需要进行体制改革，为建设性的公众参与创造机会。未能通过回收利用实现可持续用水可以理解为几个因素的结果，包括目前的水成本结构，体制保守，行政分散，社区参与规划不足。通过回收利用实现可持续用水可能需要各机构之间更好的协调和综合的政府政策。
Public acceptance is often seen as a key reason why water-recycling technology is (accepted or) rejected. A common assumption is that projects fail because the general public is unable to comprehend specialist information about risk and the belief that if the public were better informed, they would accept change more readily. This article suggests that rhetoric about acceptance is counterproductive in progressing sustainability as it does not address issues relating to institutional arrangements and reinforces a dichotomy between expert and lay groups. Instead, it is argued that institutional change is needed to build opportunities for constructive public engagement. The failure to implement sustainable water use through recycling can be understood as the result of several factors including present cost structures for water, institutional conservatism, administrative fragmentation, and inadequate involvement of communities in planning. Achieving sustainable water use through recycling may require better coordination between agencies and integrated government policies.