Innovative Knowledge Translation in Urban Water Management: An Attempt at Democratizing Science

Kelly, Benjamin; Farahbakhsh, Khosrow

doi:10.18848/1832-3669/cgp/v04i03/55880

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“…The details of the agreement are displayed publicly and updated annually with new information about rain, harvests, and revenues. In order to be part of inclusive and democratic community decisions, hydrogeologists and policy makers have to be aware of the limitations of science and be comfortable with risk, uncertainty and intuition (Norton 2005; Kelly and Farahbakhsh 2008).…”

Section: Setting Sustainability Goals Backcasting and Managing Adapmentioning

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Towards Sustainable Groundwater Use: Setting Long‐Term Goals, Backcasting, and Managing Adaptively

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The sustainability of crucial earth resources, such as groundwater, is a critical issue. We consider groundwater sustainability a value-driven process of intra- and intergenerational equity that balances the environment, society, and economy. Synthesizing hydrogeological science and current sustainability concepts, we emphasize three sustainability approaches: setting multigenerational sustainability goals, backcasting, and managing adaptively. As most aquifer problems are long-term problems, we propose that multigenerational goals (50 to 100 years) for water quantity and quality that acknowledge the connections between groundwater, surface water, and ecosystems be set for many aquifers. The goals should be set by a watershed- or aquifer-based community in an inclusive and participatory manner. Policies for shorter time horizons should be developed by backcasting, and measures implemented through adaptive management to achieve the long-term goals. Two case histories illustrate the importance and complexity of a multigenerational perspective and adaptive management. These approaches could transform aquifer depletion and contamination to more sustainable groundwater use, providing groundwater for current and future generations while protecting ecological integrity and resilience.

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Section: Setting Sustainability Goals Backcasting and Managing Adapmentioning

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“…Assessment of potential treatment options against local circumstances and subsequent decision-making should likewise be done in a participatory fashion with community members and other relevant stakeholders. This is an important step for assuring that systems development is appropriate to the realities of the community in which it is situated (Kelly & Farahbakhsh 2008). The following section attempts to shed some light on the complexity and centrality of contextual considerations by exploring some previous applications of PoU water treatment technologies.…”

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Alternatives for safe water provision in urban and peri-urban slums

Ali

2010

Journal of Water and Health

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In response to rapid urbanization throughout the global South, urban and peri-urban slums are expanding at an alarming rate. Owing to inadequate financial and institutional resources at the municipal level, conventional approaches for safe water provision with centralized treatment and distribution infrastructure have been unable to keep pace with rapidly growing demand. In the absence of alternatives to centralized systems, a global public health emergency of infectious water-related diseases has developed. Alternative decentralized water treatment systems have been promoted in recent years as a means of achieving rapid health gains among vulnerable populations. Though much work with decentralized systems, especially in urban environments, has been at the household level, there is also considerable potential for development at the community level. Both levels of approach have unique sets of advantages and disadvantages that, just as with treatment technologies, may make certain options more appropriate than others in a particular setting. Integrating community, government and other relevant stakeholders into the process of systems development and implementation is essential if the outcome is to be appropriate to local circumstances and sustainable in the long term.

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“…Applications that are taught are not initiated by the end user, but instead are motivated by profitability and competitiveness. As a result, science and technology is seen as elitist, as it only addresses the needs of the elite, and the researchers themselves [4].…”

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“…Bringing multiple stakeholders to the table has the potential to create a more just, democratic, and inclusive technology. Alternative thinking can occur in these informal settings, which is a great way to foster alternative communities with increased resilience [4].…”

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Post-normal Science, a Component of Adaptive Engineering

VanderSteen

Kelly

2010

PCEEA

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Past reliance on highly-specialized, disciplinebased knowledge has not only led to great prosperity, but it also has the tendency to ignore broader social and environmental contexts, resulting in decreased resilience and unintended consequences. This decreased resilience is manifested in engineering education and practice through a busier, less integrated curriculum, an inability to work across disciplines and a lack of connection with the end-user. We propose a new curriculum model called Adaptive Engineering. Our pedagogy does not strive to replace the curriculum, but rather supplement it by addressing certain values that are necessary to improve resilience. Adaptive Engineering promotes reflexive, preventive, and multidisciplinary engineering with practitioners who are community focused, socially just, and who make decisions through Learning Alliances. Our resilient model essentially draws from two key characteristics of post-normal science: 'extended peer communities' and 'extended facts.'

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Innovative Knowledge Translation in Urban Water Management: An Attempt at Democratizing Science

Cited by 10 publications

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Towards Sustainable Groundwater Use: Setting Long‐Term Goals, Backcasting, and Managing Adaptively

Towards Sustainable Groundwater Use: Setting Long‐Term Goals, Backcasting, and Managing Adaptively

Alternatives for safe water provision in urban and peri-urban slums

Post-normal Science, a Component of Adaptive Engineering

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