Resource efficiency and the imagined public: Insights from cultural theory
Resource efficiency and the imagined public: Insights from cultural theory
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资源效率和想象中的公众：文化理论的见解
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10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2015.07.001
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2015
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Sharp L
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Sharp L
资源效率举措力求在国内一级调节水和能源的使用方式。它们可以解决地方和区域的资源供应问题，同时减少碳排放和水的不安全，从而使减缓和适应气候变化成为可能。虽然它们构成了我们的资源治理格局中越来越重要的一部分，但迄今为止，这些干预措施受到的学术审查相对较少。利用“想象中的公众”的概念作为一个透镜，通过它适用于解释版本的道格拉斯的文化理论，本文提出了一个新的概念框架来分析这种举措的治理。该框架根据对潜在户主参与者的假设，即“想象中的公众”，对各种干预措施进行了区分，这些干预措施反映在倡议的设计和实施中。该框架适用于比较三个倡议位于人口日益增多，但水资源短缺，县肯特（英格兰东南部）。分析揭示了是否以及如何实现机构目标;它还描述了干预措施的环境和社会政治贡献，并揭示了学习如何发生之间的initiaties.This研究表明，虽然目标干预措施在其假设，设计和实施不同，他们都作出了更可持续的资源治理的小贡献。从根本上说，这些举措对资源消费的影响有限，原因是采用了共同的技术理性方法，而且其家庭参与者的范围很窄。此外，虽然所有三项举措都表明了累积机构学习的各个方面，但建议资源提供者更密切地参与和修改供资框架，作为实现更高资源效率所需的转型变革的一种手段，本文的结论是，拟议的概念框架提供了一种有用的手段来分析、绘制和加强资源效率举措。此外，有人认为，该框架在应对更广泛的环境和社会治理挑战方面也有更广泛的应用。
Resource efficiency initiatives seek to moderate how water and energy are used at a domestic level. They can address local and regional issues of resource supply while simultaneously reducing carbon emissions and water in-security, hence enabling both mitigation of and adaptation to climate change. Although they form an increasingly important part of our resource governance landscape, these interventions have received relatively little academic scrutiny to date. Utilising the concept of the ‘imagined public’ as a lens through which to apply an interpretive version of Douglas’ cultural theory, this paper presents a novel conceptual framework to analyse the governance of such initiatives. The framework distinguishes between interventions based on assumptions about potential householder participants, ‘the imagined public’, which are reflected in the initiatives’ design and implementation. The framework is applied to compare three initiatives located in the increasingly populous, but water-scarce, county of Kent (south-east England). The analysis reveals whether and how institutional objectives are met; it also describes the interventions’ environmental and socio-political contributions, and uncovers how learning occurs between initiatives.This research suggests that whilst the target interventions differed in their assumptions, design and implementation, they all made a small contribution to more sustainable resource governance. Fundamentally, the initiatives’ impact on resource consumption was limited due to a shared techno-rational approach and a narrow framing of their household participants. Moreover, while all three initiatives demonstrated aspects of cumulative institutional learning, the closer involvement of resource providers and a modified funding framework are suggested as a means to engender the transformative change required for achieving greater resource efficiency.The paper concludes that the proposed conceptual framework provides a useful means to analyse, map, and enhance resource efficiency initiatives. Further, it is argued that the framework also has wider application in addressing broader environmental and social governance challenges.
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