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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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    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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    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: 10.18452/21564
    URN: urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-110-18452/22308-5
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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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    Language: English
    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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    Managing Water Infrastructures in the Berlin-Brandenburg Region between Climate Change, Economic Restructuring and Commercialisation (2011)
    Berlin : Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
    In:  142,1–2, Seiten 187-208
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (22 Seiten)
    Publ. der Quelle: Berlin : Gesellschaft für Erdkunde zu Berlin
    Angaben zur Quelle: 142,1–2, Seiten 187-208
    DDC: 551
    Keywords: water ; infrastructure ; Berlin ; Brandenburg ; climate change ; global change ; Geologie, Hydrologie, Meteorologie ; Das Sozialverhalten beeinflussende Faktoren
    Abstract: Global change is posing a major challenge to existing forms of natural resource use, socio-economic development and institutional regulation. Although trends such as climate change, socio-economic transformation and institutional change are global in their scope, they have very specific regional outcomes. Regionally distinct coping strategies are required which take into account both the diversity of regional impacts of global change and the local contexts of appropriate responses. This paper explores the impacts of global change on the management of water infrastructure systems in the Berlin-Brandenburg region in terms of three concurrent and overlapping challenges: climate change, socio-economic change and institutional change. It subsequently examines how regional actors in the water sector are addressing these three dimensions of global change.
    Abstract: Peer Reviewed
    DOI: 10.18452/21556
    URN: urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-110-18452/22300-7
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    Unearthing water flows, uncovering social relations : introducing new waste water technologies in Berlin (2000)
    Berlin : Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
    In:  Journal of urban technology 7,2000,1, Seiten 63-84
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (20 Seiten)
    Titel der Quelle: Journal of urban technology
    Publ. der Quelle: Abingdon : Carfax, Taylor & Francis
    Angaben zur Quelle: 7,2000,1, Seiten 63-84
    DDC: 300
    Keywords: waste water ; Berlin ; Sozialwissenschaften
    Abstract: Peer Reviewed
    Note: Originally published as: Timothy Moss (2000) Unearthing Water Flows, Uncovering Social Relations: Introducing New Waste Water Technologies in Berlin, Journal of Urban Technology, 7:1, 63-84, DOI: 10.1080/713684106
    DOI: 10.18452/21585
    URN: urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-110-18452/22552-9
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