The thorny road to technology legitimation - Institutional work for potable water reuse in California

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

Volumn 103, Issue , 2016, Pages 249-263

  Binz, Christian ^a,b,c   Harris Lovett, Sasha ^e,h   Kiparsky, Michael ^e,f   Sedlak, David L ^d,e   Truffer, Bernhard ^a,g  

^a SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d Berkeley   (United States)

^e NSF Engineering Research Center for Re Inventing the Nation's Urban Water Infrastructure   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

California; Innovation system; Institutional work; Legitimacy; Potable water reuse

Indexed keywords

RESERVOIRS (WATER); SOCIOLOGY; WASTEWATER RECLAMATION; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER CONSERVATION; WATER TREATMENT;

CALIFORNIA; INNOVATION SYSTEM; INSTITUTIONAL WORK; LEGITIMACY; POTABLE WATER REUSE;

POTABLE WATER;

DRINKING WATER; INNOVATION; INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK; LEGISLATION; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; WASTEWATER;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84948845546     PISSN: 00401625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2015.10.005     Document Type: Article

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