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Thompson, M. & Beck, M.B. (2017). Not so much the water as what's in it: engineering anthropology for beginners. Social Anthropology 25 (3) 335-345. 10.1111/1469-8676.12423.
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There is, it is often observed, no waste in nature; waste comes from culture. This means that if there were no human-generated material flows – water, energy, phosphorus, nitrogen, food, carbon dioxide and so on – there would be no waste. But it does not follow from this that the more human-generated flows there are, the more waste there will be. By re-engineering our cities’ infrastructures in ways that enjoy the consent of their citizens – our focus in this paper is on water and its conversion into wastewater – we can progressively alter the material flows from ‘bad’ to ‘good’, with the ultimate goal of making those cities into forces for good in the environment.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Research Programs: | Risk & Resilience (RISK) Risk, Policy and Vulnerability (RPV) |
| Depositing User: | Romeo Molina |
| Date Deposited: | 04 Aug 2017 09:08 |
| Last Modified: | 27 Aug 2021 17:29 |
| URI: | https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/14766 |
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