Enclave Ecology: Hardening the Land-Sea Edge to Provide Freshwater in Singapore's Hydrohub
| Autor: | Stephanie C. Kane |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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| Zdroj: | Human Organization. 76:82-95 |
| ISSN: | 1938-3525 0018-7259 |
| Popis: | The island city-state of Singapore is a futuristic, industrialized, densely populated port city. Water independence is central to security. The national government devotes considerable resources to mobilizing urban surface waters. All major rivers have been integrated into a technologically sophisticated aquatic enclave called the hydrohub. Recreational and educational spaces, aesthetically designed into the system, contribute to public acceptance of this radically altered ecosystem. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, I show how flashfloods can undermine dominant cultural, political, and technical registers that systematically emphasize hydrohub benefits. The hydrohub frames sustainability as a set of interior problems to be solved (assuring clean water and preventing flooding) while disregarding possible unintended consequences of excluding the exterior (probable decline of biodiversity and fishery resources). Yet, enclave ecologies such as the hydrohub may become an increasingly popular model given worl... |
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