Groundwater Modeling and Governance: Contesting and Building (Sub)Surface Worlds in Colorado’s Northern San Juan Basin
| Autor: | Adrianne Kroepsch |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Technology
STS of the subsurface Science 0507 social and economic geography Context (language use) 010501 environmental sciences Structural basin 01 natural sciences Politics Political science groundwater American West 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Vision Hydrogeology business.industry Corporate governance 05 social sciences Environmental resource management modeling hyrdrgeology business Groundwater model 050703 geography Groundwater |
| Zdroj: | Engaging Science, Technology, and Society, Vol 4, Pp 43-66 (2018) |
| ISSN: | 2413-8053 |
| Popis: | As groundwater use has surged globally and computing power has grown, groundwater modeling has become a regular feature of subsurface-oriented governance. Our improved ability to “see” underground with models has not, however, generated epistemic consensus on the inner workings of subsurface systems. Here, I ask how and why that is the case. I pursue this line of inquiry in the context of groundwater governance in the American West. Specifically, I trace a decade of groundwater modeling at the heart of a protracted and legally influential groundwater dispute in the state of Colorado to show how models served as mathematical spaces for competing subsurface stakeholders to test and contest opposing visions of groundwater flows, rights, and responsibilities. Drawing from the Science & Technology Studies literature on global climate modeling, I argue that groundwater models are more than simulations of subsurface systems; they are tools of “world building” that embed, enact, and also circumscribe subsurface politics. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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