Department of Management and Engineering (IEI), Division of Energy Systems, Linköping University Linköping, Linköping 581 83, Sweden.
International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
Water Res. 2023 Apr 15;233:119806. doi: 10.1016/j.watres.2023.119806. Epub 2023 Feb 28.
Circular water management has the potential to close resource and material loops within and across value chains. In the water industry, circular municipal wastewater management through industrial urban symbiosis (IUS) is recognized as a solution to overcome water scarcity in urban environments. IUS involves collaboration between actors with different organizational backgrounds, which can lead to inherent risks of conflicting goals. This study explores how different values drive various organizations to participate in an emerging circular wastewater collaboration. The study comprises a literature review of 34 scientific articles and a case study of a potential circular wastewater system through IUS in Simrishamn, Sweden. It presents an interdisciplinary framework based on the total economic value concept and organizational archetypes for examining actor values in circular wastewater management. This framework provides a novel approach for assessing different values and how they may compete or align. It can also identify the absence of certain values, enabling the achievement of a minimum level of value coherence amongst different actors, and thereby increasing the sustainability and effectiveness of circular wastewater collaborations. Therefore, careful planning and stakeholder interaction, in accordance with economic value perspectives, can enhance the legitimacy and policy development of circular solutions.
循环水管理具有在价值链内部和跨价值链闭合资源和材料循环的潜力。在水行业，通过工业城市共生（IUS）实现的循环市政废水管理被认为是克服城市环境中水资源短缺的一种解决方案。IUS 涉及具有不同组织背景的参与者之间的合作，这可能导致目标冲突的固有风险。本研究探讨了不同的价值观如何驱动各种组织参与新兴的循环废水合作。该研究包括对 34 篇科学文章的文献回顾和对瑞典西姆斯哈马尔通过 IUS 实现潜在循环废水系统的案例研究。它提出了一个基于总经济价值概念和组织原型的跨学科框架，用于检验循环废水管理中参与者的价值观。该框架提供了一种评估不同价值观及其竞争或一致性的新方法。它还可以确定某些价值观的缺失，从而在不同参与者之间实现最低水平的价值一致性，并提高循环废水合作的可持续性和有效性。因此，根据经济价值观点进行仔细的规划和利益相关者互动，可以增强循环解决方案的合法性和政策制定。
