Actors working the institutions in sustainability transitions: The case of Melbourne's stormwater management
Actors working the institutions in sustainability transitions: The case of Melbourne's stormwater management
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可持续发展转型中机构的参与者：墨尔本雨水管理案例
DOI：
10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2013.02.013
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发表时间：
2013
影响因子：
8.9
通讯作者：
D. Loorbach
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作者：
Rebekah R. Brown;M. Farrelly;D. Loorbach
机构在克服路径依赖和实现可持续性过渡方面的作用正受到越来越多的关注。目前缺乏的是更多的经验性的解释行为者和体制变革之间的共同演变的动态，可能提供指导，促进这种过渡到未来。本文通过对墨尔本向改善雨水水质处理过渡的纵向案例分析，探讨了这些动态。复杂的数据收集、分析和验证方法包括口述历史、半结构化访谈、行业研讨会和文件分析，审查了过去50年过渡的不同阶段中与行为者有关的战略和体制扶持进程的细微差别。研究结果揭示了一小群来自政府、私营部门、社区和科学部门的松散联系的领跑者的重要性，他们通过混合创造和破坏机构战略，设法促进了一个不断增长和多样化的行动者网络，在几十年内引导了这一转变。建立网络化的桥梁组织也很重要，因为随着时间的推移，它们形成了不同类型的网络和联盟，以保护和深化整个城市的过渡动态。研究结果表明，没有单一的因果关系，也没有一个占主导地位的干预或行动，改变了城市雨水管理制度。相反，它表明，更广泛的过渡动态之间的共同演变过程是由领先者及其行为者网络参与的，其方式是，新出现的新叙述扩散，赋予不断演变的科学议程和实地实验以意义，从而导致新的体制结构和有利的行政工具。在解释这一成功的可持续性转型的结果时，这些维度中的每一个似乎都与其他维度一样重要。
The role of agency in overcoming path dependence and enabling sustainability transitions is receiving increasing attention. Currently lacking are more empirically derived explanations of the co-evolutionary dynamics between actors and institutional change that could potentially provide guidance on facilitating such transitions into the future. This paper investigates these dynamics through a longitudinal case analysis of Melbourne's transition to improved stormwater quality treatment. The complex data collection, analysis and validation approach, which included oral histories, semi-structured interviews, industry workshops and documentary analysis, examined the nuances of the actor-related strategies and institutional enabling processes throughout the different phases of the transition over the last fifty years. The results revealed the importance of a small group of loosely connected frontrunners from across government, private, community and scientific sectors who, through a mix of creating and disrupting institutional strategies, managed to facilitate a growing and diverse actor-network that steered this transition over decades. The establishment of networked bridging organisations was also instrumental because they formed different types of networks and alliances over time for protecting and deepening the reach of the transition dynamics across the city. The findings suggest there is no single cause–effect relationship nor one dominant intervention or action that shifted the urban stormwater management regime. Rather, it showed that the co-evolutionary processes between the broader transitional dynamics were played into by frontrunners and their actor-networks in such a way that emerging new narratives diffused, giving meaning to the evolving scientific agendas and on-the-ground experiments, which led to new institutional structures and enabling administrative tools. It seems as though each one of these dimensions is as crucial as the other in explaining the outcomes of this successful sustainability transition.