The circular economy (CE) is an emerging system that moves away from the traditional linear view of “make, use, and dispose” to one that is restorative and regenerative to keep resources, such as water, at its highest value and utility at all times. Water is essential to the CE due to its importance for human life and because of the energy and material it contains. However, the move toward more circular water solutions is accompanied by both technological and social challenges for which, this article argues, stakeholder participation and social learning are essential. Enabling diverse stakeholders to engage and share different perspectives, interests, and needs, and ultimately to co‐produce knowledge, communities of practice (CoPs) are seen as a suitable approach to discuss CE water technologies in their institutional context. Although CoPs are being used widely in many sectors and disciplines, there is insufficient focus and a lack of consensus on how to evaluate the CoPs to understand whether and how the co‐production of knowledge is effective and efficient. This article gives an overview of the importance of water in the CE, explores the rationale for knowledge co‐production and CoPs, and proposes a CoP evaluation framework to draw together a consensus on the methods used for evaluating water knowledge co‐production and social learning processes in the transition toward the CE.

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循环水解决方案中心的实践社区

循环经济（CE）是一种新兴的系统，它从传统的“制造，使用和处置”线性观点转变为具有恢复性和可再生性的系统，以使水资源（例如水）保持最高价值并完全发挥效用。次。水对于消费电子产品至关重要，因为它对人类生命至关重要，并且因为其中包含的能量和物质。但是，向更循环的水解决方案迈进的过程同时伴随着技术和社会挑战，本文认为，利益相关者的参与和社会学习至关重要。为了使不同的利益相关者能够参与和共享不同的观点，兴趣和需求，并最终共同产生知识，实践社区（CoP）被视为在其机构背景下讨论CE水技术的合适方法。尽管CoP已在许多部门和学科中广泛使用，但是对于如何评估CoP来了解知识的联合生产是否有效以及如何有效的关注和关注不足，并且缺乏共识。本文概述了水在行政长官中的重要性，探讨了知识共同生产和CoP的基本原理，并提出了CoP评估框架，以就评估水知识共同生产和社会学习的方法达成共识向CE过渡的过程。