Remaking “Nature”: The Ecological Turn in Dutch Water Management:

摘要: The ecological turn in water management has usually been interpreted as a political andcultural rather than technical and professional accomplishment. dynamics of theuptake expertise into hydraulic engineering bureaucracies have not beenwell described. Focusing on the controversy around damming Oosterscheldeestuary Netherlands 1970s, this article shows how public environmental politicstransformed politics interprofessional competition. Andrew Abbott's conceptof "jurisdictional vacancies" is mobilized to illuminate ecologists took advantageof bankruptcy Dutch coastal agency extend their professionaljurisdiction. subsequent "ecologization" engineeringwas successful, however, only because were able willing adapt theirpractices culture hegemonic civil engineers.