Sweetness and HPOWER: Waste, Sugar and Ecological Identity in the Development of Honolulu's HPOWER Waste-to-Energy Facility

IF 0.3 Q4 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Global Environment Pub Date : 2020-06-15 DOI:10.3197/ge.2020.130203

J. Howell

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Abstract

Recent studies have demonstrated the high spatial, economic and ecological stakes of solid waste management in remote island environments, like Hawaii, but also suggested ways in which conceptions of risk and identity have factored into stakeholders' decisions regarding particular waste management technologies and processes. Through an analysis of historical and archival documents, this article examines linkages between a declining sugar plantation industry and the development of a major waste disposal project, and shows how an ecological identity narrative which combined an understanding of Honolulu as a place needing to reduce reliance on imported resources with an understanding of metropolitan Honolulu as a major centre for plantation sugarcane agriculture resulted in a plan for combining waste disposal with sugarcane processing. Focused on the historical case of the HPOWER facility on the Hawaiian island of Oahu, I argue that ecological identity offers new insights for understanding how environmental infrastructures are conceptualised and resisted, and that explicit consideration of ecological identity in the analysis of environmental governance may lead to improved scholarly understanding as well as improved outcomes for governance itself.

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《甜蜜与电力:火奴鲁鲁电力废物转化为能源设施发展中的废物、糖和生态特性》

最近的研究表明，在夏威夷等偏远岛屿环境中，固体废物管理具有很高的空间、经济和生态利害关系，但也提出了风险和身份概念如何影响利益攸关方关于特定废物管理技术和过程的决定的方法。通过对历史和档案文件的分析，本文考察了衰落的甘蔗种植业与一个主要废物处理项目的发展之间的联系，并展示了生态身份叙事是如何将檀香山作为一个需要减少对进口资源依赖的地方的理解与檀香山大都市作为种植甘蔗农业的主要中心的理解结合起来的，从而产生了将废物处理与甘蔗加工结合起来的计划。以夏威夷瓦胡岛的HPOWER设施的历史案例为重点，我认为生态认同为理解环境基础设施是如何概念化和抵制提供了新的见解，并且在环境治理分析中明确考虑生态认同可能会提高学术理解以及改善治理本身的结果。

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期刊介绍： The half-yearly journal Global Environment: A Journal of History and Natural and Social Sciences acts as a forum and echo chamber for ongoing studies on the environment and world history, with special focus on modern and contemporary topics. Our intent is to gather and stimulate scholarship that, despite a diversity of approaches and themes, shares an environmental perspective on world history in its various facets, including economic development, social relations, production government, and international relations. One of the journal’s main commitments is to bring together different areas of expertise in both the natural and the social sciences to facilitate a common language and a common perspective in the study of history. This commitment is fulfilled by way of peer-reviewed research articles and also by interviews and other special features. Global Environment strives to transcend the western-centric and ‘developist’ bias that has dominated international environmental historiography so far and to favour the emergence of spatially and culturally diversified points of view. It seeks to replace the notion of ‘hierarchy’ with those of ‘relationship’ and ‘exchange’ – between continents, states, regions, cities, central zones and peripheral areas – in studying the construction or destruction of environments and ecosystems.