A cultural theory of drinking water risks, values and institutional change
A cultural theory of drinking water risks, values and institutional change
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DOI：
10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2018.03.006
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发表时间：
2018-05-01
影响因子：
8.9
通讯作者：
Hope, Rob
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作者：
Koehler, Johanna;Rayner, Steve;Hope, Rob
全球在实现普遍、安全管理的饮用水服务目标方面取得的进展将取决于水风险、价值观和机构之间的动态关系。我们将玛丽·道格拉斯的文化理论应用于农村水点管理，并通过大规模联网不同的管理文化来讨论其在多元化安排中的运作。该理论在肯尼亚沿海地区得到了检验，该地区代表了整个非洲在为农村社区提供安全管理的水方面所面临的挑战。根据对 3500 个家庭的纵向研究结果，我们研究了不同的管理文化如何面对和管理运营、财务、制度和环境风险。本文阐述了跨系统合作解决方案的案例，其中当前政策有效地将社区与国家或市场分开。这项研究的贡献是一个理论和实证案例，考虑了多元化的制度安排，使风险和责任能够在国家、市场和社区之间重新概念化和重新分配，从而为农村用水户创造价值。
Global progress towards the goal of universal, safely managed drinking water services will be shaped by the dynamic relationship between water risks, values and institutions. We apply Mary Douglas' cultural theory to rural waterpoint management and discuss its operationalisation in pluralist arrangements through networking different management cultures at scale. The theory is tested in coastal Kenya, an area that typifies the challenges faced across Africa in providing rural communities with safely managed water. Drawing on findings from a longitudinal study of 3500 households, we examine how different management cultures face and manage operational, financial, institutional and environmental risks. This paper makes the case for cooperative solutions across systems where current policy effectively separates communities from the state or markets. The contribution of this research is both a theoretical and empirical case to consider pluralist institutional arrangements that enable risks and responsibilities to be re-conceptualised and re-allocated between the state, market and communities to create value for rural water users.