Department of Environmental Systems Science, Transdisciplinarity Lab, ETH Zurich, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland.
Department of Environmental Systems Science, Transdisciplinarity Lab, ETH Zurich, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland.
Waste Manag. 2018 Feb;72:25-44. doi: 10.1016/j.wasman.2017.11.006. Epub 2017 Nov 10.
As a complex socio-technical system, waste management is crucially important for the sustainable management of material and energy flows. Transition to better performing waste management systems requires not only determining what needs to be changed but also finding out how this change can be realized. Without understanding the political context, insights from decision support tools such as life cycle assessment (LCA) are likely to be lost in translation to decision and policy making. This study strives to provide a first insight into the political context and address the opportunities and barriers pertinent to initiating a change in Swiss waste management. For this purpose, the discourses around a major policy process are analysed to uncover the policy beliefs and preferences of actors. Discourse coalitions are delineated by referring to the Advocacy Coalition Framework (Sabatier, 1998) and using the Discourse Network Analysis (Leifeld and Haunss, 2012) method. The results display an incoherent regime (Fuenfschilling and Truffer, 2014) with divergent belief clusters on core issues in waste management. Yet, some actors holding different beliefs appear to have overlapping interests on secondary issues such as the treatment of biogenic waste or plastics. Although the current political context hinders a system-wide disruptive change, transitions can be initiated at local or regional scale by utilizing the shared interest across different discourse coalitions.
作为一个复杂的社会技术系统，废物管理对于物质和能量流的可持续管理至关重要。向表现更好的废物管理系统的转变不仅需要确定需要改变什么，还需要找到如何实现这种改变。如果不了解政治背景，那么从生命周期评估（LCA）等决策支持工具中获得的见解很可能在转化为决策和政策制定时被忽视。本研究旨在深入了解政治背景，并探讨在瑞士废物管理中启动变革的机会和障碍。为此，分析了一个主要政策过程的论述，以揭示行为者的政策信念和偏好。通过参考倡导联盟框架（Sabatier，1998）并使用论述网络分析（Leifeld 和 Haunss，2012）方法，划定了论述联盟。结果显示，在废物管理的核心问题上存在不一致的（Fuenfschilling 和 Truffer，2014）信念集群。然而，一些持有不同信念的行为者在生物废物或塑料等次要问题上似乎存在重叠的利益。尽管当前的政治背景阻碍了全面的颠覆性变革，但可以通过利用不同论述联盟之间的共同利益，在地方或区域范围内启动转型。
