What Is Driving the Water-Energy-Food Nexus? Discourses, Knowledge, and Politics of an Emerging Resource Governance Concept
What Is Driving the Water-Energy-Food Nexus? Discourses, Knowledge, and Politics of an Emerging Resource Governance Concept
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是什么推动了水-能源-食品关系？
DOI：
10.3389/fenvs.2018.00128
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发表时间：
2018
影响因子：
4.6
通讯作者：
Antje Bruns
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作者：
Viviana Wiegleb;Antje Bruns
在全球社会环境变化加速的背景下，水-能源-粮食关系通过促进综合资源治理在科学界和国际政界受到越来越多的关注。本研究从语篇分析的角度探讨科学联系的争论，以揭示知识和权力关系以及联系研究的地理背景。我们还研究了影响联系研究和随后的政治影响的社会-自然关系的方法。我们的研究结果表明，主要的联系话语由自然科学观点和新马尔萨斯环境挑战框架主导。因此，资源治理的跨部门联系方法强调效率、安全、未来可持续性和减贫。水、能源和食品被认为是全球贸易商品，需要密切监测、管理和控制，通过定量评估和技术干预来实现。在不太明显的话语中，社会科学的观点涉及水-能源-食物关系的社会、政治和规范因素。这些观点批评了占主导地位的关系代表对资源治理的管理、新自由主义和功利主义方法。管理框架因掩盖权力关系和社会不平等而受到批评，而替代框架承认资源治理和社会-自然关系的政治性质。本文还讨论了关系争论的空间维度。值得注意的是，这种联系在很大程度上是由西方知识塑造的，但主要应用于全球南方的特定地区。为了实现可持续发展的综合解决方案，辩论需要克服其当前的话语和空间分离。为此，我们需要更密切地参与替代性联系话语，接受认知多元化，并鼓励对我们实际打算促进的社会-自然关系进行多视角辩论。
In the context of accelerated global socio-environmental change, the Water-Energy-Food Nexus has received increasing attention within science and international politics by promoting integrated resource governance. This study explores the scientific nexus debates from a discourse analytical perspective to reveal knowledge and power relations as well as geographical settings of nexus research. We also investigate approaches to socio-nature relations that influence nexus research and subsequent political implications. Our findings suggest that the leading nexus discourse is dominated by natural scientific perspectives and a neo-Malthusian framing of environmental challenges. Accordingly, the promoted cross-sectoral nexus approach to resource governance emphasizes efficiency, security, future sustainability, and poverty reduction. Water, energy, and food are conceived as global trade goods that require close monitoring, management and control, to be achieved via quantitative assessments and technological interventions. Within the less visible discourse, social scientific perspectives engage with the social, political, and normative elements of the Water-Energy-Food Nexus. These perspectives criticize the dominant nexus representation for itsmanagerial, neoliberal, and utilitarian approach to resource governance. The managerial framing is critiqued for masking power relations and social inequalities, while alternative framings acknowledge the political nature of resource governance and socio-nature relations. The spatial dimensions of the nexus debate are also discussed. Notably, the nexus is largely shaped by western knowledge, yet applied mainly in specific regions of the Global South. In order for the nexus to achieve integrative solutions for sustainability, the debate needs to overcome its current discursive and spatial separations. To this end, we need to engage more closely with alternative nexus discourses, embrace epistemic pluralism and encourage multi-perspective debates about the socio-nature relations we actually intend to promote.