School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch 8140, New Zealand.
J Environ Manage. 2012 Jul 30;103:154-64. doi: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2012.02.007. Epub 2012 Apr 4.
Biosolids management has been largely overlooked as an issue for environmental co-management, collaborative learning and public participation. This paper summarises four research projects on facilitating community involvement in biosolids management in New Zealand. The authors situate these studies both in relation to the New Zealand institutional and policy context for the management of biosolids and in relation to the themes of public participation and social learning in the literature on community involvement in environmental management. From the studies it can be concluded that: the incorporation of the knowledge and views of Māori is important from both public-participation and social-learning perspectives; both public-participation and social-learning approaches must consider the role of issue-definition in relation to willingness to participate; democratic accountability remains a challenge for both approaches; and locating biosolids management within an integrated water-and-wastewater or sustainable waste-management strategy may facilitate wider community participation as well as better-coordinated decision-making.
生物固体管理在环境共同管理、协作学习和公众参与方面一直被忽视。本文总结了新西兰四个关于促进社区参与生物固体管理的研究项目。作者将这些研究置于新西兰生物固体管理的制度和政策背景以及公众参与和社会学习文献中关于社区参与环境管理的主题中。从这些研究中可以得出结论：从公众参与和社会学习的角度来看，纳入毛利人的知识和观点非常重要；公众参与和社会学习方法都必须考虑与参与意愿相关的问题定义的作用；民主问责制仍然是这两种方法的挑战；将生物固体管理纳入综合水和废水或可持续废物管理战略中，可能会促进更广泛的社区参与以及更好的协调决策。
