IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/eee/marpol/v46y2014icp22-30.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

‘No right to rubbish’: Mobilising post-normal science for planning Gisborne’s wastewater outfall

Author

Listed:
  • Bremer, Scott

Abstract

The field of integrated coastal management (ICM) represents a rich literature on the science–policy interface. While initially a project in science-based management, the evolution of ICM over the past 40 years has seen some scholars and practitioners promoting a more participatory science–policy interface, with ‘post-normal science’ put forward as one promising approach to framing this interface. This same evolution is seen in New Zealand’s coastal management, with increasing numbers of participatory initiatives implemented as a result of a growing dissatisfaction with science-based management to address certain issues. This paper presents the study of the successful ‘WARG’ (Wastewater Adjournment Review Group) initiative in Gisborne, where they engaged an approach closely resembling post-normal science, for planning for the city’s wastewater outfall. The study employed the conceptual lens of post-normal science to describe the WARG, before analysing how it contributed to high quality ICM. The hope was that by studying the WARG as post-normal science, and how this approach has promoted successful ICM in Gisborne, this will yield insights into how the post-normal science perspective may contribute to ICM more broadly. The study found that the WARG did closely correspond to the principles of post-normal science, and that these characteristics largely accounted for the successes of the WARG. More broadly it showed that, where the uncertainty and contentiousness of an issue defies science-based management, a participatory approach is more appropriate, and post-normal science represents a realistic approach. Indeed, the WARG demonstrated that a successfully-run post-normal science approach can contribute to high quality ICM, which is (i) substantively, founded in a more comprehensive knowledge base; (ii) normatively, more democratic; and (iii) instrumentally, more likely to arrive at consensus.

Suggested Citation

  • Bremer, Scott, 2014. "‘No right to rubbish’: Mobilising post-normal science for planning Gisborne’s wastewater outfall," Marine Policy, Elsevier, vol. 46(C), pages 22-30.
  • Handle: RePEc:eee:marpol:v:46:y:2014:i:c:p:22-30
    DOI: 10.1016/j.marpol.2014.01.001
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0308597X14000037
    Download Restriction: Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only

    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1016/j.marpol.2014.01.001?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Kendra, James M, 1997. "Seaport development versus environmental preservation: The case of Sears Island, Maine, USA," Marine Policy, Elsevier, vol. 21(5), pages 409-424, September.
    2. Costanza, Robert, 1999. "The ecological, economic, and social importance of the oceans," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 31(2), pages 199-213, November.
    3. Funtowicz, Silvio O. & Ravetz, Jerome R., 1994. "The worth of a songbird: ecological economics as a post-normal science," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 10(3), pages 197-207, August.
    4. Boesch, Donald F., 1999. "The role of science in ocean governance," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 31(2), pages 189-198, November.
    5. Fritz, Jan-Stefan, 2010. "Towards a 'new form of governance' in science-policy relations in the European Maritime Policy," Marine Policy, Elsevier, vol. 34(1), pages 1-6, January.
    6. Knol, Maaike, 2010. "Scientific advice in integrated ocean management: The process towards the Barents Sea plan," Marine Policy, Elsevier, vol. 34(2), pages 252-260, March.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Ainscough, Jacob & Wilson, Meriwether & Kenter, Jasper O., 2018. "Ecosystem services as a post-normal field of science," Ecosystem Services, Elsevier, vol. 31(PA), pages 93-101.

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Costanza, Robert & Andrade, Francisco & Antunes, Paula & van den Belt, Marjan & Boesch, Don & Boersma, Dee & Catarino, Fernando & Hanna, Susan & Limburg, Karin & Low, Bobbi, 1999. "Ecological economics and sustainable governance of the oceans," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 31(2), pages 171-187, November.
    2. Luks, Fred & Siebenhuner, Bernd, 2007. "Transdisciplinarity for social learning? The contribution of the German socio-ecological research initiative to sustainability governance," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 63(2-3), pages 418-426, August.
    3. Ramos-Martin, Jesus, 2003. "Empiricism in ecological economics: a perspective from complex systems theory," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 46(3), pages 387-398, October.
    4. Yoann Verger, 2015. "Sraffa and ecological economics: review of the literature," Working Papers hal-01182894, HAL.
    5. Kahmann, Birte & Stumpf, Klara Helene & Baumgärtner, Stefan, 2015. "Notions of justice held by stakeholders of the Newfoundland fishery," Marine Policy, Elsevier, vol. 62(C), pages 37-50.
    6. Benjamin Leard, 2011. "Joan Martinez-Alier and Ingo Ropke (eds.): Recent developments in ecological economics (2 vols.)," Journal of Bioeconomics, Springer, vol. 13(2), pages 161-178, July.
    7. Jesús Ramos-Martín, 2003. "Empirismo en economía ecológica: una visión desde la teoría de los sistemas complejos," Revista de Economía Crítica, Asociación de Economía Crítica, vol. 1, pages 75-93.
    8. Ropke, Inge, 2005. "Trends in the development of ecological economics from the late 1980s to the early 2000s," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 55(2), pages 262-290, November.
    9. Andreoni, Valeria, 2020. "The energy metabolism of countries: Energy efficiency and use in the period that followed the global financial crisis," Energy Policy, Elsevier, vol. 139(C).
    10. Spash, Clive L., 2014. "Better Growth, Helping the Paris COP-out? Fallacies and Omissions of the New Climate Economy Report," SRE-Discussion Papers 2014/04, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business.
    11. Plumecocq, Gaël, 2014. "The second generation of ecological economics: How far has the apple fallen from the tree?," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 107(C), pages 457-468.
    12. Cordier, Mateo & Pérez Agúndez, José A. & Hecq, Walter & Hamaide, Bertrand, 2014. "A guiding framework for ecosystem services monetization in ecological–economic modeling," Ecosystem Services, Elsevier, vol. 8(C), pages 86-96.
    13. Frame, Bob & Brown, Judy, 2008. "Developing post-normal technologies for sustainability," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 65(2), pages 225-241, April.
    14. Giuseppe Munda, 2003. "Social Multi-Criteria Evaluation (SMCE)," UHE Working papers 2003_04, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, Unitat d'Història Econòmica.
    15. Figge, Frank & Hahn, Tobias, 2004. "Sustainable Value Added--measuring corporate contributions to sustainability beyond eco-efficiency," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 48(2), pages 173-187, February.
    16. Ainscough, Jacob & Wilson, Meriwether & Kenter, Jasper O., 2018. "Ecosystem services as a post-normal field of science," Ecosystem Services, Elsevier, vol. 31(PA), pages 93-101.
    17. Gowdy, John M. & Ferreri Carbonell, Ada, 1999. "Toward consilience between biology and economics: the contribution of Ecological Economics," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 29(3), pages 337-348, June.
    18. Farrell, Katharine N., 2011. "Framing the Valuation of Ecosystem Services: A Theoretical Discussion of the Challenges and Opportunities Associated with Articulating Values that Reflect the Economic Contributions of Ecological Phen," 2011 International Congress, August 30-September 2, 2011, Zurich, Switzerland 114362, European Association of Agricultural Economists.
    19. Hossein Sabzian & Mohammad Ali Shafia & Ali Maleki & Seyeed Mostapha Seyeed Hashemi & Ali Baghaei & Hossein Gharib, 2019. "Theories and Practice of Agent based Modeling: Some practical Implications for Economic Planners," Papers 1901.08932, arXiv.org.
    20. Ferdinando Nunziata & Andrea Buono & Maurizio Migliaccio, 2018. "COSMO–SkyMed Synthetic Aperture Radar Data to Observe the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 10(10), pages 1-15, October.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:eee:marpol:v:46:y:2014:i:c:p:22-30. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Catherine Liu (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.elsevier.com/locate/marpol .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.