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A Critical Analysis of Technological Innovation and Economic Development in Southern California's Urban Water Reuse & Recycling Industry.

机译：对南加利福尼亚州城市中水回用和循环产业中技术创新和经济发展的批判性分析。

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Southern California's urbanization was accomplished through the technologically-aided harvesting of faraway water sources. Today this is too expensive, environmentally damaging, and politically unpopular. Southern California utilities have begun shifting to a strategy of conservation and the development of local sources such as groundwater, desalination, or recycled water. Progressive local water agencies have built advanced water reuse infrastructure projects like Orange County Water District's (OCWD) Groundwater Replenishment System (GWRS), the world's largest and most technologically advanced indirect potable reuse project. At the same time, the region has been mired in a prolonged multiyear economic downturn, leading many observers to advocate economic development through nurturing environmentally sensitive "clean tech" industries. This thesis investigates the Southern California water industry and, specifically, the regional innovation system that has generated major breakthroughs in water reuse technology and infrastructure that has come about due to OCWD's---and others'---early investment in reuse research. Using an analytical framework derived from economic agglomeration scholarship, innovation systems literature, and an international case study analysis of the water technology innovation systems of Israel, Singapore, Netherlands, and Australia, this study employs qualitative interviews, industry analysis, and a case study of the GWRS project to investigate the regional water industry. It finds a strong local industry---often led by a forward looking state government---with auspicious growth prospects, but with significant local impediments including overly fragmented markets and consumers, hidden price subsidies, confusing legal institutions, agencies with misaligned incentives, lackluster private industry regional promotion, and unproductive interagency competition. Today other regions throughout the world, even neighboring Northern California, are rapidly growing their water technology expertise---occasionally at the expense of Southern California. More effective regional governance and better private sector cooperation would further strengthen the region's already robust industry, accelerate the local creation of technological innovation, and manage limited regional water supplies more effectively.
机译：通过对遥远水源的技术辅助收集，实现了南加州的城市化进程。今天，这太昂贵了，对环境造成破坏，并且在政治上不受欢迎。南加州的公用事业已开始转向保护和开发诸如地下水，淡化水或循环水等本地水源的战略。进步的地方水务机构已经建立了先进的水回用基础设施项目，例如奥兰治县水区（OCWD）的地下水补充系统（GWRS），这是世界上最大，技术最先进的间接饮用水回用项目。同时，该地区陷入了长期的多年经济不景气，导致许多观察家通过培育对环境敏感的“清洁技术”产业来倡导经济发展。本文研究了南加州的水工业，尤其是区域创新系统，该系统在水再利用技术和基础设施方面取得了重大突破，这是由于OCWD（以及其他机构）对再利用研究的早期投资而产生的。利用经济集聚奖学金，创新系统文献以及以色列，新加坡，荷兰和澳大利亚的水技术创新系统的国际案例研究分析得出的分析框架，本研究采用了定性访谈，行业分析以及对GWRS项目旨在调查区域水行业。它发现了一个强大的本地产业-通常由具有前瞻性的州政府领导-具有良好的增长前景，但存在重大的本地障碍，包括市场和消费者过于分散，隐藏的价格补贴，使法律机构困惑，激励措施错位的代理商，私营行业的区域发展乏善可陈，机构间竞争乏善可陈。如今，世界上其他地区，甚至与北加州相邻的地区，都在迅速发展其水技术专业知识-有时以牺牲南加州为代价。更加有效的区域治理和更好的私营部门合作将进一步加强该区域业已蓬勃发展的产业，加快本地技术创新的产生，并更有效地管理有限的区域供水。

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    Pilip-Florea, Shadrach.;

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    University of California, Los Angeles.;

  • 授予单位 University of California, Los Angeles.;
  • 学科 Area Planning and Development.;Environmental Management.;Geography.
  • 学位 M.U.R.P.
  • 年度 2012
  • 页码 185 p.
  • 总页数 185
  • 原文格式 PDF
  • 正文语种 eng
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