Urban infrastructures, metabolic resource flows and the contradictions of circular economy ‘solutions’ in Nantes and Gothenburg

IF 4.2 1区 经济学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
Jean-Baptiste Bahers, Jonathan Rutherford
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Urban infrastructures, as socio-technical systems that transform metabolic flows, are a key focus for efforts at initiating a more circular economy of resource use and waste recovery. Beyond exemplar discourses and claims, an infrastructure-mediated understanding of and focus on actually existing circularity projects attends to the diverse array of components, sites and exchanges through which transformative socio-technical change is envisaged, enacted and challenged. This article uses in-depth studies of circularity infrastructure initiatives in Nantes (France) and Gothenburg (Sweden) that involve a range of public and private stakeholders. We focus on the contradictions and tensions in these initiatives to draw attention to circularity as a material and political process of relocalising resource use while spatially expanding resource networks. We show how this process involves reworking large-scale infrastructure while nurturing community-level initiatives of the foundational economy, and thereby shaping urban futures through reuse and recycled flows but with a view to sustaining economic growth strategies. We argue that the materialist and productivist logic underpinning the urban infrastructures of the circular economy largely serves to aggravate the underlying fundamental systemic concerns that circularity was supposed to address in the first place.
南特和哥德堡的城市基础设施、代谢资源流动和循环经济“解决方案”的矛盾
城市基础设施作为改变新陈代谢流动的社会技术系统,是启动资源利用和废物回收的更循环经济的努力的重点。除了范例话语和主张之外,基础设施对实际存在的循环项目的理解和关注涉及到各种组件、场地和交流,通过这些组件、场地和交流,变革的社会技术变革被设想、实施和挑战。本文对南特(法国)和哥德堡(瑞典)的循环基础设施倡议进行了深入研究,这些倡议涉及一系列公共和私人利益相关者。我们关注这些倡议中的矛盾和紧张关系,以引起人们对循环的关注,作为在空间上扩展资源网络的同时重新定位资源使用的物质和政治过程。我们展示了这一过程如何涉及大规模基础设施的改造,同时培养社区层面的基础经济举措,从而通过再利用和回收流动塑造城市未来,同时保持经济增长战略。我们认为,支撑循环经济的城市基础设施的唯物主义和生产主义逻辑在很大程度上加剧了潜在的基本系统问题,而循环首先应该解决这些问题。
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Urban Studies
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期刊介绍: Urban Studies was first published in 1964 to provide an international forum of social and economic contributions to the fields of urban and regional planning. Since then, the Journal has expanded to encompass the increasing range of disciplines and approaches that have been brought to bear on urban and regional problems. Contents include original articles, notes and comments, and a comprehensive book review section. Regular contributions are drawn from the fields of economics, planning, political science, statistics, geography, sociology, population studies and public administration.
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