Re-Framing Environmental Social Science Research for Sustainable Water Management in a Changing Climate
Re-Framing Environmental Social Science Research for Sustainable Water Management in a Changing Climate
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DOI：
10.1007/s11269-012-0184-0
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发表时间：
2013-03-01
影响因子：
4.3
通讯作者：
Barr, Stewart
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作者：
Pearce, Rebecca;Dessai, Suraje;Barr, Stewart
本文认为，在英国的环境社会科学研究的方面，并探讨了一个明显的偏向发展的工具，以管理需求，适应气候变化，因此，在客户的利益占主导地位，从需求方的角度来看。就水而言，这导致了将旨在衡量公众对风险和用水做法的看法的个人主义研究方法与无法具体联系到个人的大量消费数据不适当地混合在一起。这种混合有一种倾向，即加强一种长期存在的指责文化，这种文化推动人们对制定行为改变举措的兴趣，而相对不受挑战的提供安全饮用水和卫生设施的水力使命则在取得进展。考虑到这一点，本文回顾了从加州，澳大利亚和英国的水资源利用研究的例子，并强调更有效的路线，以了解水的客户和发展的行为改变的举措，利用阶段的变化模型和接地技术，将定性和定量数据从个人来源。第二个目标是主张在不断变化的气候中重新构建各种行为者之间的关系，以允许基于该领域的新理论，从行业，监管机构和客户中制定新的政策方法，学习和开放。
This paper considers aspects of environmental social science research in the UK and explores an obvious bias towards the development of instruments to manage demand as an adaptation to climate change, and consequently the predominance of interest in the customer from a demand-side perspective. In the case of water, this has resulted in an inappropriate mixing of individualist research methods designed to measure public perceptions of risk and water-based practices, with mass consumption data that cannot be specifically linked to the individual. This mixing has a tendency to reinforce a long-standing blame culture that drives interest in the development of behaviour change initiatives while the relatively unchallenged hydraulic mission to provide safe drinking water and sanitation progresses. With this in mind this paper reviews examples of water use research from California, Australia, and the UK and highlights the more effective routes to understanding water customers and developing behaviour change initiatives that utilise stages of change models and grounded techniques incorporating qualitative and quantitative data from individual sources. A secondary aim is to argue for re-framing the relations between various actors in a changing climate to allow the development of new policy approaches, learning, and openness, from industry, regulators, and customers, based on new theories from the field.