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Building the virtual river: Numbers, models, and the politics of water in California.

机译：建立虚拟河流：加利福尼亚的数字，模型和水政。

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This dissertation employs ethnographic, interview, and historiographic methods to explore the emergence, design, and distinctive controversies surrounding the use of computer simulation models in water management and politics in California, together with the broader regime of numbers and governance which support them. The first part of the dissertation offers an archival grounding for current debates, exploring the histories of knowledge, government, measure, and representation by which California rivers have been brought within and helped to produce the distinctive "territorial embrace" of the late-modern state in California. Chapter Three surveys the literature on models and policy in the earth sciences, exploring the ambivalent epistemic status of models vis-a-vis more established theoretical, experimental and data forms. Chapter Four explores the role of models in the field of water management, from physical and analog traditions in the early to mid-twentieth century to the rise of computer simulation techniques beginning in the 1950s and accelerating over the 1980s and 1990s. Chapter Five considers two principal case studies: the State Water Project Reliability Report of 2002, and current efforts to update the California Water Plan, both delayed and/or substantially reshaped by controversies surrounding the legitimacy of modeling. As these and other cases of "doing hard politics with soft numbers" suggest, despite technical developments and widespread policy deployments in the past ten years, the status of model knowledge in public contexts remains fragile, subject to ever-present threats of technical, political, and institutional deconstruction. Because of this, the representational adequacy of models cannot be reduced or fixed at the level of technical practice or 'code itself', but resides in a dense and politically consequential web of social, technical and institutional practices. Pragmatically, I urge designers, policy-makers, activists, and other political actors to "attend to the infrastructure," i.e. pay adequate attention to the mundane details of design, history, and practice that play a large and growing role in shaping the deliberative character (or otherwise) of complex systems of epistemic, material, and social order.
机译：本文采用人种学，访谈法和史学方法，探讨了在加利福尼亚的水管理和政治中使用计算机模拟模型的出现，设计和独特的争议，以及支持它们的更广泛的数字和治理体制。论文的第一部分为当前的辩论提供了档案基础，探讨了知识，政府，措施和代表制的历史，通过这些历史，加州河流被带入了河流，并帮助产生了后现代国家的独特“领土怀抱”在加利福尼亚。第三章调查了地球科学中有关模型和政策的文献，探讨了模型相对于更成熟的理论，实验和数据形式的矛盾认知状态。第四章探讨了模型在水管理领域中的作用，从20世纪初到20世纪中叶的物理和模拟传统，到1950年代开始到1980年代和1990年代加速的计算机仿真技术的兴起。第五章讨论了两个主要的案例研究：2002年的《州水项目可靠性报告》，以及当前为更新《加州水计划》所做的努力，由于围绕建模合法性的争议而延迟和/或实质性地重塑。正如这些和其他“用软数字做硬政治”的案例所暗示的那样，尽管在过去十年中技术发展和政策部署广泛，但公共环境中模型知识的地位仍然脆弱，受到技术，政治的不断威胁。 ，以及机构解构。因此，无法在技术实践或“代码本身”的层次上减少或固定模型的代表性，而只能在社会，技术和机构实践的密集且具有政治意义的网络中进行。务实地，我敦促设计师，政策制定者，活动家和其他政治行为者“参与基础架构”，即充分注意设计，历史和实践等世俗的细节，这些细节在塑造审议过程中起着越来越大的作用认知，物质和社会秩序的复杂系统的特征（或其他特征）。

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    Jackson, Steven J.;

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    University of California, San Diego.;

  • 授予单位 University of California, San Diego.;
  • 学科 Information science.;Urban planning.;Environmental science.;Public administration.
  • 学位 Ph.D.
  • 年度 2005
  • 页码 314 p.
  • 总页数 314
  • 原文格式 PDF
  • 正文语种 eng
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