Political and Professional Agency Entrapment: An Agenda for Urban Water Research

摘要: The many societal benefits provided by traditional, centralised urban water servicing models are being re-examined following recent extreme weather events, climate uncertainty and other variable socio-technical trends. Total cycle management offers a more flexible resilient approach to management, however, transformative change in the sector is difficult. A growing number of scholars have identified that locked-in current large-scale, infrastructure model suggest unable accommodate new technologies approaches beyond niche projects. Based on extensive socio-institutional research example cases from Australian United Kingdom experiences managing under pressures such as modern environmentalism, prolonged scarcity sewerage overflows, this paper provides commentary common factors exhibited both countries related technological path dependency. Three key promoting pathway: political risk, professional agency fear lack hybrid governance discussed future scholarly agenda presented.