TY - JOUR
T1 - Sweetness and hpower
T2 - Waste, sugar and ecological identity in the development of Honolulu’s hpower waste-to-energy facility
AU - Howell, Jordan P.
N1 - Funding Information:
Jordan P. Howell is Associate Professor of Sustainable Business at Rowan University in Glassboro, NJ. He is also the Program Coordinator for Environmental & Sustainability Studies degree programs and the Co-Director of the Rowan Center for Responsible Leadership. His research examines infrastructure, especially waste management systems, and innovations in environmental policy and governance. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities and US Environmental Protection Agency, among others. Jordan earned a Ph.D. from Michigan State University and Bachelor of Arts from the College of William & Mary. He has served as Camden County’s representative on the New Jersey Pinelands Commission since January 2018 where he is a founding member of the Land Use, Climate Impacts, and Sustainability Committee and the chair’s designee to the Pinelands Development Credit Bank.
Funding Information:
This research was supported by the US Environmental Protection Agency?s Science to Achieve Results Graduate Fellowship under grant FP91737901-0. The views expressed here do not represent the views of the US EPA. This research was also supported by a Rowan University Seed Funding Grant and the Research Program at the East-West Center in Honolulu. Special thanks to the librarians at the Hawaiian and Pacific Collections at University of Hawaii at Manoa.
Funding Information:
This research was supported by the US Environmental Protection Agency’s Science to Achieve Results Graduate Fellowship under grant FP91737901-0. The views expressed here do not represent the views of the US EPA. This research was also supported by a Rowan University Seed Funding Grant and the Research Program at the East-West Center in Honolulu. Special thanks to the librarians at the Hawaiian and Pacific Collections at University of Hawaii at Manoa.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020, The White Horse Press.
Copyright:
Copyright 2020 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2020/6
Y1 - 2020/6
N2 - Recent studies have demonstrated the high spatial, economic and ecological stakes of solid waste management in remote island environments, like Hawaii, but also suggested ways in which conceptions of risk and identity have factored into stakeholders' decisions regarding particular waste management technologies and processes. Through an analysis of historical and archival documents, this article examines linkages between a declining sugar plantation industry and the development of a major waste disposal project, and shows how an ecological identity narrative which combined an understanding of Honolulu as a place needing to reduce reliance on imported resources with an understanding of metropolitan Honolulu as a major centre for plantation sugarcane agriculture resulted in a plan for combining waste disposal with sugarcane processing. Focused on the historical case of the HPOWER facility on the Hawaiian island of Oahu, I argue that ecological identity offers new insights for understanding how environmental infrastructures are conceptualised and resisted, and that explicit consideration of ecological identity in the analysis of environmental governance may lead to improved scholarly understanding as well as improved outcomes for governance itself.
AB - Recent studies have demonstrated the high spatial, economic and ecological stakes of solid waste management in remote island environments, like Hawaii, but also suggested ways in which conceptions of risk and identity have factored into stakeholders' decisions regarding particular waste management technologies and processes. Through an analysis of historical and archival documents, this article examines linkages between a declining sugar plantation industry and the development of a major waste disposal project, and shows how an ecological identity narrative which combined an understanding of Honolulu as a place needing to reduce reliance on imported resources with an understanding of metropolitan Honolulu as a major centre for plantation sugarcane agriculture resulted in a plan for combining waste disposal with sugarcane processing. Focused on the historical case of the HPOWER facility on the Hawaiian island of Oahu, I argue that ecological identity offers new insights for understanding how environmental infrastructures are conceptualised and resisted, and that explicit consideration of ecological identity in the analysis of environmental governance may lead to improved scholarly understanding as well as improved outcomes for governance itself.
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U2 - 10.3197/ge.2020.130203
DO - 10.3197/ge.2020.130203
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85087012127
SN - 1973-3739
VL - 13
SP - 285
EP - 316
JO - Global Environment
JF - Global Environment
IS - 2
ER -