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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.
    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: 10.18452/21592
    URN: urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-110-18452/22550-8
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    Your Resilience is My Vulnerability : ‘Rules in Use’ in a Local Water Conflict (2014)
    Berlin : Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
    In:  Social Sciences 3,2014,1, Seiten 172-192
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (21 Seiten)
    Titel der Quelle: Social Sciences
    Publ. der Quelle: Basel : MDPI
    Angaben zur Quelle: 3,2014,1, Seiten 172-192
    DDC: 551
    Keywords: resilience ; vulnerability ; rules in use ; water conflict ; water scarcity ; institutions ; Geologie, Hydrologie, Meteorologie ; Soziologie, Anthropologie
    Abstract: This paper uses an empirical analysis of a water conflict in the German state of Brandenburg to explore diverse constructions of vulnerability to water scarcity by local stakeholders. It demonstrates how, in the absence of effective formal institutions, these constructions are getting translated into conflictual resilience strategies practiced by these stakeholders, creating situations in which “your resilience is my vulnerability”. The novel contribution of the paper to resilience research is threefold. Firstly, it illustrates how the vulnerability and resilience of a socio-ecological system—such as small catchment—are socially constructed; that is, how they are not given but rather the product of stakeholders’ perceptions of threats and suitable responses to them. Secondly, the paper emphasizes the role of institutions—both formal and informal—in framing these vulnerability constructions and resilience strategies. Particular attention is paid to the importance of informal ‘rules in use’ emerging in the wake of (formal) ‘institutional voids’ and how they work against collective solutions. Thirdly, by choosing a small-scale, commonplace dispute to study vulnerability and resilience, the paper seeks to redress the imbalance of resilience research (and policy) on dramatic disaster events by revealing the relevance of everyday vulnerabilities, which may be less eye-catching but are far more widespread.
    Abstract: Peer Reviewed
    DOI: 10.18452/21557
    URN: urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-110-18452/22301-3
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    Institutional drivers and constraints of floodplain restoration in Europe (2007)
    Berlin : Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
    In:  International journal of river basin management 5,2007,2, Seiten 121-130
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (10 Seiten)
    Titel der Quelle: International journal of river basin management
    Publ. der Quelle: London : Taylor & Francis
    Angaben zur Quelle: 5,2007,2, Seiten 121-130
    DDC: 300
    Keywords: floodplain restoration ; institutions ; river basin management ; policy implementation ; Sozialwissenschaften
    Abstract: The task of restoring floodplains, as a means of improving flood protection or providing other benefits, poses multi-dimensional challenges to policy-makers and project managers alike. Involving essentially a reconfiguration of the interaction between a river and adjacent low-lying land, floodplain restoration affects a wide range of institutions designed to secure a variety of private and public goods associated with water and land use. A scheme to restore a floodplain requires the successful enrolment of these institutions in such a way as to create a result acceptable to the principal stakeholders. This is a highly complex process. This paper, based on EU-funded research on the policy contexts and selected pilot schemes of floodplain restoration in Germany, France and England and Wales, provides a critical appraisal of the institutional drivers and constraints of floodplain restoration. In particular, it explores how recent shifts in problem awareness and problem-solving in a number of relevant policy fields are creating windows of opportunity for more integrated approaches to restoring floodplains. At the same time it demonstrates the emergence of a new policy delivery gap emanating from the growing complexity of new generation floodplain restoration schemes.
    Abstract: Peer Reviewed
    Note: Originally published as: Timothy Moss (2007) Institutional drivers and constraints of floodplain restoration in Europe, International Journal of River Basin Management, 5:2, 121-130, DOI: 10.1080/15715124.2007.9635312
    DOI: 10.18452/21583
    URN: urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-110-18452/22567-5
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