Yao Zeyu, Bell Sarah
Institute for Environmental Design and Engineering, University College London (UCL), Gower Street, London WS1E 6BT, UK.
Melbourne Centre for Cities, University of Melbourne, Grattan Street, Parkville, Victoria 3010, Australia.
UCL Open Environ. 2022 Feb 1;4:e031. doi: 10.14324/111.444/ucloe.000031. eCollection 2022.
Sustainable, resilient urban water management is fundamental to good environmental and public health. As an interdisciplinary task, it faces enormous challenges from project complexity, network dynamics and the tacit nature of knowledge being communicated between actors involved in design, decisions and delivery. Among others, some critical and persistent challenges to the implementation of sustainable urban water management include the lack of knowledge and expertise, lack of effective communication and collaboration, and lack of shared understanding and context. Using the Chinese Sponge City programme as a case study, this paper draws on the perspectives of Polanyi and Collins to investigate the extent to which knowledge can be used and exchanged between actors. Using Collins' conceptualisation of the terrain of tacit knowledge, the study identifies the use of relational, somatic and collective tacit knowledge (CTK) in the Sponge City pilot project. Structured interviews with 38 people working on a Sponge City pilot project provided data that was rigorously analysed using qualitative thematic analysis. The paper is original in identifying different types of tacit knowledge in urban water management, and the potential pathways for information and messages being communicated between actors. The methods and results provide the groundwork for analysing the access and mobilisation of tacit knowledge in the Sponge City pilot project, with relevance for other complex, interdisciplinary environmental projects and programmes.
可持续、有韧性的城市水资源管理对于良好的环境和公众健康至关重要。作为一项跨学科任务，它面临着来自项目复杂性、网络动态性以及参与设计、决策和实施的各方之间知识传递的隐性本质等方面的巨大挑战。其中，可持续城市水资源管理实施过程中一些关键且持续存在的挑战包括知识和专业技能的缺乏、有效沟通与协作的缺乏以及共同理解和背景的缺乏。本文以中国海绵城市项目为例，借鉴波兰尼和柯林斯的观点，研究参与者之间知识能够被运用和交流的程度。运用柯林斯对隐性知识领域的概念化，该研究确定了海绵城市试点项目中关系性、身体性和集体隐性知识（CTK）的运用。对38名参与海绵城市试点项目的人员进行的结构化访谈提供了数据，并使用定性主题分析对其进行了严格分析。本文的独到之处在于识别了城市水资源管理中不同类型的隐性知识，以及参与者之间信息和消息传递的潜在途径。这些方法和结果为分析海绵城市试点项目中隐性知识的获取和调动奠定了基础，对其他复杂的跨学科环境项目和计划具有借鉴意义。
