Stepping-up innovations in the water-energy-food nexus: A case study of anaerobic digestion in the UK
Stepping-up innovations in the water-energy-food nexus: A case study of anaerobic digestion in the UK
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加强水-能源-食品关系的创新：英国厌氧消化的案例研究
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10.1111/geoj.12259
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2018
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Hoolohan C
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Hoolohan C
气候变化、贫困和生物多样性丧失等重大社会挑战要求迅速彻底改变生产和消费体系。因此，人们越来越关注社会和技术创新的动态，以加速创新扩散，从而增加阶跃变化或大规模转型的可能性。关于水-能源-粮食关系的研究为现有讨论增加了一个新的层面，呼吁认识到三个主要资源领域面临的可持续性挑战及其管理中的协同作用和紧张关系的过渡。本文研究了厌氧消化（AD）--一个在水-能源-食品关系中具有潜在效益的创新例子--以了解影响AD实施率的条件以及在水-能源-食品关系中实现其潜在的多部门效益。访谈数据15 AD工厂一起检查的补充数据，从访谈和研讨会使用的技术创新体系框架。这一框架提供了一个分析结构，通过它可以审查在联合王国实施反倾销的过程，从而确定支持反倾销更广泛和更有效部署的潜在机制。研究结果呼吁认识到技术适应的部门支持机制的意外后果，以及AD在其他资源领域的相应表现，并呼吁加强政策机制之间的整合，使AD能够在整个关系中发挥作用。他们还强调需要吸收来自多个来源的知识（包括从实验中获得的特定地点的理解），以加强政策和决策的基础。这些研究结果有助于现有的文献可持续转型的研究背景下，多部门资源管理的复杂性。
Grand societal challenges such as climate change, poverty and biodiversity loss call for rapid and radical changes to systems of production and consumption. Consequently, there is a growing interest in the dynamics of innovation, both social and technical, to accelerate innovation diffusion so as to increase the possibility of a step‐change or large‐scale transition. Research on the water–energy–food nexus adds an additional dimension to existing discussions, calling for transitions that recognise the sustainability challenges facing three major resource domains, and the synergies and tensions involved in their management. This paper examines anaerobic digestion (AD) – an example of innovation with potential benefits across the water–energy–food nexus – to understand the conditions that influence the rate of AD implementation and the achievement of its potential multi‐sectoral benefits across the water–energy–food nexus. Interview data regarding 15 AD plants are examined alongside complementary data from interviews and workshops using the Technological Innovation Systems framework. This framework provides an analytical structure through which the processes that enable and constrain the implementation of AD in the UK can be examined, enabling the identification of potential mechanisms to support AD's wider and more effective deployment. The findings call for recognition of the unintended consequences of sectoral support mechanisms for technological adaptation, and consequent performance of AD in other resource domains and call for greater integration between policy mechanisms to enable AD to perform across the nexus. They also highlight a need to assimilate knowledge from multiple sources (including site‐specific understanding gained from experimentation) to enhance the base on which policy and decision‐making occurs. These findings contribute to existing literature on sustainable transitions by examining the complexities of multi‐sectoral resource management in the context of nexus research.