Identifying Drivers of China's Provincial Wastewater Reuse Outcomes Using Qualitative Comparative Analysis

Jiang, Daqian; Fischer, Manuel; Huang, Zuhao; Kunz, Nadja C.

doi:10.1111/jiec.12584

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“…As a primary strategy, we need to further open the dialogue between researchers of different methodological cultures and between researchers and other stakeholders with influence over societal changes. The JIE observes a proliferation of methods: besides the conventional methods and retrospective evaluations introduced above, other approaches that help to generate reliable evidence and inform decision‐making include, for example, qualitative comparative analysis (Jiang, Fischer, Huang, & Kunz, 2018) and adaptive governance (Cecchin, Lamour, Joseph Maks Davis, & Jácome Polit, 2019). Explicit comparison between results from different methods and research design that ensures cross‐check would improve transparency, reliability and insights of research findings, and deliver messages that better assist decision‐making.…”

Section: Moving Forwardmentioning

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Suggested use? On evidence‐based decision‐making in industrial ecology and beyond

Zhu

2020

J of Industrial Ecology

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Industrial ecology (IE) research has well established expertise in accounting for the material stocks, flows, and associated impacts of industrial and consumer activities in a variety of scales and manifestations. As with many other science and social science fields, however, the pathways from IE research findings to policy and business decision-making are often unclear and unsatisfactory. This issue creates a challenge for the application of industrial ecology to sustainable development. By reviewing several strands of literature, this article investigates alternative ways to generate and use research findings to support decision-making and social change. It argues that advances in both the core and the emerging methods in IE complement each other to improve transparency and reliability of research evidence; extension and contextualization of current findings corresponding to different stages in policy-making and organizational decision processes make research evidence more informative; a learning perspective makes research evidence valuable and used in more flexible ways. To better assist decision-making for societal change, more dialogues between researchers of different methodological cultures and between researchers and other stakeholders and a paradigm shift in social systems for which industrial ecologists should be conscious and proactive are required.

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Section: Moving Forwardmentioning

confidence: 99%

Suggested use? On evidence‐based decision‐making in industrial ecology and beyond

Zhu

2020

J of Industrial Ecology

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“…As the depletion of water resources is growing in most developing countries, increasing pressure on their water resources [17], improving water use efficiency in developing countries with scarce water resources is important [18]. China’s water resources are characterized by low per capita availability and extremely uneven spatial distribution [19,20]. In general, agriculture and industrial sectors and households are the main water consumers [21].…”

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Direct or Spillover Effect: The Impact of Pure Technical and Scale Efficiencies of Water Use on Water Scarcity in China

Kai-sheng

2019

IJERPH

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The spatial relationship between water use efficiency and water scarcity has been widely discussed, but little attention has been paid to the impact of the pure technical and scale efficiencies of water use on water scarcity. Using input-oriented data envelopment analysis (DEA) and panel spatial Durbin models (SDM), the direct and spillover effects of different water use efficiencies on water scarcity from 2007 to 2016 in China were examined at the regional scale. The results show that the water use pure technical efficiency had significantly negative direct effects on water scarcity; however, the water use scale efficiency did not have a similar effect. The improvement in water use pure technical efficiency in one region could aggravate the water scarcity in neighboring regions through spatial spillover effects, but the same effect was not observed between the water use scale efficiency and water scarcity. Finally, we propose solutions to improve the water use efficiency to reduce the water scarcity.

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Barriers and drivers to the development of an effective water reuse chain: insights from an Italian water utility

Neri,

Rizzuni,

Garrone

et al. 2024

Clean Techn Environ Policy

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Widespread adoption of water reuse technologies is critical to the development of a circular economy and to reduce the pressure on increasingly scarce freshwater resources. However, the adoption of water reuse technologies involves a complex and multi-level decision-making process, influenced by different factors that hinder or support such adoption, namely barriers and drivers. The present research provides a first identification of such factors from a value chain perspective. To do so, the paper first conceptualises the water reuse value chain, including the actors and stages required to bring collected wastewater to the reuse destination. It then conducts an exploratory case study in the context of an Italian water utility facing increasing water stress. External barriers such as societal perceptions and lack of demand for recycled water emerge as particularly influential in hindering the adoption of water reuse technologies. Drivers emerge from both the external and internal environment, with the level of water scarcity and the effectiveness of collaboration and coordination between different institutional and policy actors being particularly strong. Barriers and drivers are found to be of varying relevance depending on the characteristics of the facilities and the reuse value chain analysed, including the operational status of the reclamation facility, the type of final reuse, and the roles in the value chains. The paper provides relevant implications for academics, policymakers, and adopters of water reuse technologies for a more circular and environmentally sustainable water sector, offering useful insights for decision-makers in related sectors. Graphical abstract

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Identifying Drivers of China's Provincial Wastewater Reuse Outcomes Using Qualitative Comparative Analysis

Cited by 9 publications

References 20 publications

Suggested use? On evidence‐based decision‐making in industrial ecology and beyond

Suggested use? On evidence‐based decision‐making in industrial ecology and beyond

Direct or Spillover Effect: The Impact of Pure Technical and Scale Efficiencies of Water Use on Water Scarcity in China

Barriers and drivers to the development of an effective water reuse chain: insights from an Italian water utility

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