How can we trace differing normative values, and especially in alternative imaginaries of environmentally sustainable futures? To address this issue, this article extends the sociotechnical imaginaries framework by providing conceptual tools to understand the underlying rationale of alternative environmental imaginaries-through an envirotechnical analysis. I analyse an urban river restoration project called the Isar-Plan in Munich, Germany, where the notion of 'renaturation' was at the centre a controversy over designs for the project. By positing the river as an envirotechnical landscape, the normative dimensions of nature, science and technology within environmental transformations can be constructively integrated within co-productionist analyses in science and technology studies. The article shows how existing societal values are shaped by prior systems and regimes, constructing local imaginaries of desirable environmental futures. Envirotechnical analyses also increase our ability to identify differing normative values, and could thus be further applied in cases where the normative assumptions behind opaque notions otherwise would be left underexplored.

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回归自然？谈判伊萨尔河作为环境技术景观的“恢复”。


我们如何追踪不同的规范价值观，特别是在环境可持续未来的替代想象中？为了解决这个问题，本文通过提供概念工具来扩展社会技术想象框架，以通过环境技术分析来理解替代环境想象的基本原理。我分析了德国慕尼黑的一个名为“伊萨尔计划”的城市河流修复项目，其中“恢复自然”的概念是该项目设计争议的中心。通过将河流定位为环境技术景观，环境转变中的自然、科学和技术的规范维度可以建设性地整合到科学和技术研究中的共同生产主义分析中。文章展示了现有的社会价值观如何受到先前制度和制度的影响，并构建了当地对理想环境未来的想象。环境技术分析还提高了我们识别不同规范值的能力，因此可以进一步应用于那些不透明概念背后的规范假设将得不到充分探索的情况。