Sanitation under challenge: contributions from the social sciences
Sanitation under challenge: contributions from the social sciences
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面临挑战的卫生设施：社会科学的贡献
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2011
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P. Oosterveer
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B. Vliet;G. Spaargaren;P. Oosterveer
本文回顾了社会科学可以为应对挑战做出的贡献，即为世界上过度发达和欠发达地区的数十亿人提供可持续的卫生服务和基础设施。本文回顾并讨论了与卫生挑战相关的三个特定社会科学主题：社会技术变革的本质、多层次治理问题以及公民消费者的作用。有人认为，卫生问题既是一个社会问题，也是一个技术问题，在这方面需要加强社会科学知识的作用并给予更多关注。社会科学的主要贡献在于它有能力帮助扩大卫生设施的狭隘技术定义，包括参与者及其需求和信仰体系，并强调替代的社会技术工具和治理安排，这些工具和治理安排有助于超越传统水工程和卫生设施供应的一些死胡同
This paper reviews the contribution the social sciences can make to the challenge of providing access to sustainable sanitation services and infrastructures for billions of people, in both the over- and underdeveloped parts of the world. The paper reviews and discusses three particular social scientific topics relevant for the sanitation challenge: the nature of socio-technical change, the issue of multilevel governance, and the role of the citizen-consumer. It is argued that sanitation is as much a social as it is a technical issue, and that the role of social scientific knowledge needs to be strengthened and given more attention in this context. The key contribution from the social sciences is to be found in its capacity to help widen the narrow, technical definitions of sanitation by including actors and their needs and belief systems, and by highlighting the alternative socio-technical tools and governance arrangements that are instrumental in moving beyond some of the dead-end roads of traditional water engineering and sanitation provision