Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (15 Seiten)
Publ. der Quelle:
London [u.a.] : Taylor & Francis
Angaben zur Quelle:
21,4, Seiten 358-372
DDC:
300
Keywords:
Rainwater harvesting
;
institutions
;
imaginaries
;
urban infrastructure
;
Berlin
;
Sozialwissenschaften
Abstract:
Studies of rainwater harvesting regularly highlight the rich diversity of technologies used for rainwater harvesting in cities, but rarely devote attention to the equally diverse logics driving rainwater harvesting projects (RWHPs). To rectify this omission this paper presents research from a city – Berlin – which has a long pedigree of rainwater harvesting that has given rise, over the past 30 years, to an astonishingly varied range of schemes. We analyse and compare three cases encapsulating three distinct project types prevalent in the city: public, grassroots and commercial. The paper demonstrates the nature of diversity between the three and illustrates how diverse logics of rainwater harvesting co-exist within one city. More fundamentally, it unpacks these logics using concepts of sociotechnical imaginaries, urban infrastructures in transition and institutional obduracy and change. It is demonstrated, thereby, how each project reflects a particular imaginary of why urban rainwater should be harvested, how and for whom, and how these imaginaries have emerged out of particular institutional and infrastructural contexts in the course of Berlin’s post-reunification development. The paper concludes with reflections on the implications of this conceptually grounded, cross-case comparison for environmental research and policy.
Abstract:
Peer Reviewed
Note:
Originally published as:
Ourania Papasozomenou, Timothy Moss & Natàlia García Soler (2019) Raindrops keep falling on my roof: imaginaries, infrastructures and institutions shaping rainwater harvesting in Berlin, Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning, 21:4, 358-372, DOI: 10.1080/1523908X.2019.1623658
DOI:
10.1080/1523908X.2019.1623658
URN:
urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-110-18452/22550-8
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