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  • Moss, Timothy  (9)
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    Raindrops keep falling on my roof : imaginaries, infrastructures and institutions shaping rainwater harvesting in Berlin (2019)
    Berlin : Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
    In:  Journal of environmental policy and planning 21,2019,4, Seiten 358-372
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (15 Seiten)
    Titel der Quelle: Journal of environmental policy and planning
    Publ. der Quelle: London [u.a.] : Taylor & Francis
    Angaben zur Quelle: 21,2019,4, 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.
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    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: 10.18452/21592
    URN: urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-110-18452/22550-8
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    Rain and the city : Pathways to mainstreaming rainwater harvesting in Berlin (2018)
    Berlin : Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
    In:  Geoforum 89,2018, Seiten 96-106
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (23 Seiten)
    Titel der Quelle: Geoforum
    Publ. der Quelle: Amsterdam [u.a.] : Elsevier
    Angaben zur Quelle: 89,2018, Seiten 96-106
    DDC: 300
    Keywords: Rainwater harvesting ; sociotechnical imaginaries ; urban infrastructure ; Berlin ; Sozialwissenschaften
    Abstract: Studies of rainwater harvesting regularly highlight the rich diversity of technologies used to collect, treat and reuse rainwater in cities, but rarely devote attention to the equally diverse visions that drive rainwater harvesting projects. 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. From a database of over 250 rainwater harvesting projects we select, analyse and compare three case studies which encapsulate 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 significantly, it shows how each scheme 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. These empirical findings are interpreted using STS concepts relating to sociotechnical imaginaries, urban infrastructures in transition and institutional obduracy and change.
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    Note: First published as: Natàlia García Soler, Timothy Moss, Ourania Papasozomenou, Rain and the city: Pathways to mainstreaming rainwater harvesting in Berlin, Geoforum, Volume 89, 2018, pp. 96-106. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2018.01.010 This accepted manuscript version of the article stated above is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
    DOI: 10.18452/21577
    URN: urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-110-18452/22537-7
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    Politicised nexus thinking in practice: Integrating urban wastewater utilities into regional energy markets (2017)
    Berlin : Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
    In:  56,11, Seiten 2225-2241
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    ISSN: 0042-0980 , 0042-0980
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (17 Seiten)
    Publ. der Quelle: London, England : SAGE Publications
    Angaben zur Quelle: 56,11, Seiten 2225-2241
    DDC: 300
    Keywords: local politics ; nexus ; renewable energy ; urban infrastructure ; wastewater ; Sozialwissenschaften ; Wirtschaft
    Abstract: Infrastructures are key interfaces of urban resource use, connecting production to consumption, cities to their hinterland and energy to water and land use. They have, however, received scant attention in debates on nexus thinking in general, and the urban nexus in particular. Drawing on an emergent critical literature on the nexus in urban studies and science and technology studies, this article examines practices of (attempted) inter-sectoral infrastructure integration at the interface of urban wastewater treatment and regional energy provision in Germany. It analyses the nexus approaches and experiences of eight German cities / city-regions as so-called ‘flexibility providers’ in regional energy markets for electricity, gas and heating. It demonstrates how the practices of wastewater utilities operating in energy markets involve far more than technical adaptation, requiring in addition a major reordering of existing material, spatial and institutional configurations to both wastewater and energy systems. This is proving a deeply political process with important implications for our understanding of socio-technical transitions at the water-energy nexus.
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    Note: This publication is with permission of the rights owner freely accessible due to an alliance licence and a national licence (funded by the DFG, German Research Foundation) respectively.
    DOI: 10.1177/0042098017735229
    DOI: 10.18452/24652
    URN: urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-110-18452/25318-7
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    Sociospatial understanding of water politics : Tracing the multidimensionality of water reuse (2017)
    Berlin : Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
    In:  Water Alternatives 10,2017,1, Seiten 22-40
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (19 Seiten)
    Titel der Quelle: Water Alternatives
    Angaben zur Quelle: 10,2017,1, Seiten 22-40
    DDC: 551
    Keywords: water reuse ; TPSN ; governance ; sociospatial politics of water ; Germany ; Geologie, Hydrologie, Meteorologie ; Soziologie, Anthropologie ; Politikwissenschaft
    Abstract: Much social science literature on water reuse focuses on problems of acceptance and economic problems, while the spatial and political dimensions remain under-researched. This paper addresses this deficit by reformulating the issue in terms of sociospatial politics of water reuse. It does this by drawing on the work of Mollinga (2008) and the Territory Place Scale Network (TPSN) framework (Jessop et al., 2008) to develop an analytical approach to the sociospatial politics of water in general, and water reuse in particular. The paper argues that Mollinga’s understanding of water politics as contested technical/physical, organisational/ managerial and regulatory/socioeconomic planes of human interventions can be deepened through further reflection on their implications for the four sociospatial dimensions of the TPSN framework. Such a comprehensive, multidimensional approach re-imagines the politics of water reuse, providing researchers with a heuristic device to trace the interventions through which water reuse plans disrupt existing arrangements, and avoid a concern for individual preferences and simplified notions of barriers and enablers. The potential of the analytical framework is explored using an empirical illustration of water reuse politics in the Berlin-Brandenburg region in Germany.
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    DOI: 10.18452/21562
    URN: urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-110-18452/22306-3
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    Between coproduction and commons : Understanding initiatives to reclaim urban energy provision in Berlin and Hamburg (2016)
    Berlin : Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
    In:  10,1, Seiten 63-85
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    ISSN: 1753-5069 , 1753-5069
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (23 Seiten)
    Publ. der Quelle: Abingdon : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
    Angaben zur Quelle: 10,1, Seiten 63-85
    DDC: 300
    Keywords: coproduction ; commons ; energy transition ; remunicipalisation ; social movements ; Sozialwissenschaften
    Abstract: This paper explores new geographies of coproduction emerging in urban energy politics. It analyses processes of remunicipalisation of urban utilities, involving the re-establishment of public ownership with a strong democratic and ecological agenda for governing energy infrastructures, with case studies of the German cities of Berlin and Hamburg. Seeking ways of understanding these developments which transcend conventional binaries such as public vs. private ownership or consumer vs. producer, we interpret them in relation to debates first about coproduction and then about urban commons. This latter concept, we argue, provides deeper analytical purchase on new grassroots energy initiatives and the politics that unfold in remunicipalisation conflicts, offering a new avenue for enriching research on the coproduction of energy.
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    Note: Originally published as: S. Becker, M. Naumann & T. Moss (2017) Between coproduction and commons: understanding initiatives to reclaim urban energy provision in Berlin and Hamburg, Urban Research & Practice, 10:1, 63-85, DOI: 10.1080/17535069.2016.1156735
    DOI: 10.18452/21574
    DOI: 10.1080/17535069.2016.1156735
    URN: urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-110-18452/22564-7
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    Discarded surrogates, modified traditions, welcome complements : The chequered careers of alternative technologies in Berlin's infrastructure systems (2016)
    Berlin : Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
    In:  Social Studies of Science 46,2016,4, Seiten 559-582
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (24 Seiten)
    Titel der Quelle: Social Studies of Science
    Publ. der Quelle: : Sage
    Angaben zur Quelle: 46,2016,4, Seiten 559-582
    DDC: 333.7
    Keywords: Berlin ; Germany ; infrastructure ; socio-technical transitions ; technology ; Natürliche Resourcen, Energie und Umwelt ; Soziologie, Anthropologie
    Abstract: This article takes an historical perspective on current attempts to ‘open up’ established, centralized systems of urban infrastructure to alternative technologies designed to minimize resource use and environmental pollution. The process of introducing alternative technologies into, or alongside, centralized urban infrastructures is not a novel phenomenon, as is often assumed. The physical and institutional entrenchment of large technical systems for urban energy, water or sanitation services in industrialized countries in the late 19th and early 20th centuries did not close the door completely on alternatives. I investigate a number of alternative technologies used in Berlin in the interwar period (1920–1939), in order to reveal the rationales developed around each technology and the ways in which each emerged, disappeared and re-emerged or survived across highly diverse political regimes. The selection of cases is guided by the desire to illustrate three different phenomena of alternative technology diffusion (and exclusion) experienced in Berlin: (1) technologies promoted by early pioneers and discarded by their successors (waste-to-energy), (2) technologies modifying traditional practices that were at odds with modernized systems (wastewater reuse for agriculture) and (3) technologies co-existing alongside the dominant centralized system throughout the 20th century (cogeneration). The empirical findings are interpreted with reference to their contribution to scholarship on urban socio-technical transitions.
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    DOI: 10.18452/21564
    URN: urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-110-18452/22308-5
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    The German Energiewende – What’s Happening? : Introducing the Special Issue (2016)
    Berlin : Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
    In:  Utilities policy 41,2016, Seiten 163-171
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (9 Seiten)
    Titel der Quelle: Utilities policy
    Publ. der Quelle: Amsterdam [u.a.] : Elsevier
    Angaben zur Quelle: 41,2016, Seiten 163-171
    DDC: 300
    Keywords: Sozialwissenschaften
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    Note: First published as: Leslie Quitzow, Weert Canzler, Philipp Grundmann, Markus Leibenath, Timothy Moss, Tilmann Rave (2016) The German Energiewende – What’s Happening? Introducing the Special Issue. Utilities Policy 41 (August): 163-171. Doi.org/10.1016/j.jup.2016.03.002 This accepted manuscript version of the article stated above is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
    DOI: 10.18452/21593
    URN: urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-110-18452/22549-7
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    Turning wastewater into energy : challenges of reconfiguring regional infrastructures in the Berlin–Brandenburg region (2016)
    Berlin : Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
    In:  Local environment 22,2016,3, Seiten 269-285
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    ISSN: 1354-9839 , 1354-9839
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (17 Seiten)
    Titel der Quelle: Local environment
    Publ. der Quelle: London [u.a.] : Taylor & Francis, 2017
    Angaben zur Quelle: 22,2016,3, Seiten 269-285
    DDC: 300
    Keywords: water–energy nexus ; Berlin-Brandenburg ; infrastructure ; Sozialwissenschaften
    Abstract: Issues of connectivity between different infrastructure sectors have received surprisingly little attention in recent research. Despite huge interest in issues of sectoral integration surrounding the water–energy nexus, researchers have rarely considered what this might mean for the coupling of infrastructure systems for water/wastewater and energy services. Consequently, the implications of greater connectivity for the governance and socio-spatial constitution of infrastructures are largely unexplored. This paper addresses this research gap with a case study of an attempt to use treated wastewater to produce biomass for energy on degraded land in the Berlin-Brandenburg region of Germany. It takes water reuse for energy crop production as an exemplar of work at the water–energy nexus in order to explore the institutional, spatial and physical dimensions involved in connecting two infrastructure systems to this end. It argues that cross-sectoral integration reaches far beyond issues of technological compatibility, revealing often hidden but crucial differences in the institutional and spatial configuration of energy and wastewater systems. On the basis of a comparative analysis of the institutional arrangements of the region’s wastewater and energy systems together with an empirical study of initiatives to use treated wastewater to grow energy crops the paper draws conclusions, firstly, on the potential and limitations of this particular exemplar and, secondly, on the broader implications of the case for understanding institutional challenges of cross-sectoral connectivity on the one hand and prospects for reconfiguring infrastructural relations between cities and rural areas on the other.
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    Note: Originally published as: Timothy Moss, Matthias Naumann & Katharina Krause (2017) Turning wastewater into energy: challenges of reconfiguring regional infrastructures in the Berlin–Brandenburg region, Local Environment, 22:3, 269-285, DOI: 10.1080/13549839.2016.1195799
    DOI: 10.18452/21581
    URN: urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-110-18452/22563-1
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    Realigning the electric city : Legacies of energy autarky in Berlin and Hong Kong (2015)
    Berlin : Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
    In:  Energy research & social science 11,2015,January, Seiten 225-236
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (12 Seiten)
    Titel der Quelle: Energy research & social science
    Publ. der Quelle: Amsterdam [u.a.] : Elsevier, 2016
    Angaben zur Quelle: 11,2015,January, Seiten 225-236
    DDC: 300
    Keywords: energy autarky ; urban energy transitions ; Berlin ; Hong Kong ; Sozialwissenschaften
    Abstract: Whilst cities are widely regarded as playing a pivotal role in energy transitions, recent research is highlighting the enormous variety of urban responses. This differentiated picture of urban energy transitions is helpfully opening up the debate to the multifarious factors shaping urban energy policy. What is in danger of getting lost in these powerfully 'presentist' narratives is a sense of where these urban responses are coming from and how historical legacies of energy production and use are influencing future options. This paper uses a comparative historical analysis of two iconic 'electric cities' - Berlin and Hong Kong - to explore the legacies of past socio-technical configurations for today's attempts to realign urban energy systems. It investigates firstly, how, in response to their respective geo-political isolation prior to reunification in 1990/1997, the two cities strove to maximise local energy autarky for security reasons. The paper, secondly, demonstrates how political and economic reintegration in the 1990s has initiated a realignment of each city's energy policy, as power grids become regionalised and local generation capacity questioned. We conclude by drawing implications from these historical legacies of energy autarky and regionalisation for the cities' responses to the low carbon challenge today.
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    Note: First published as: Timothy Moss and Maria Francesch-Huidobro (2016) Realigning the electric city. Legacies of energy autarky in Berlin and Hong Kong, Energy Research & Social Sciences 11 (January): 225-236 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2015.10.002 This accepted manuscript version of the article stated above is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
    DOI: 10.18452/21588
    URN: urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-110-18452/22548-9
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