ABSTRACT As converging crises increasingly cause disruption to social-ecological systems, individuals and communities will need to become more resilient and proactive in ensuring their access to and use of natural resources is sustainable. Ten months after an unprecedented drinking water contamination event and public health emergency in the New Zealand town of Havelock North, interviews were conducted with the owners of twenty local small and medium businesses. We applied a transformative learning framework to explore whether the disruption increased business owners’ awareness of their dependence on and connection to natural systems, prompted them to change their water management practices, and/or led them to contemplate or initiate alternative water supply relationships, thereby reshaping the prevailing provider-user “hydrosocial contract”. We found that business owners did become more conscious of natural systems and the criticality of water to their businesses, and made temporary adjustments to their practices to allow them to survive financially until their water supply returned to normal. However, because they saw no reason to challenge the existing provider-user water supply model, their primary focus was to bounce back to their previous state as quickly as possible.

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颠覆是转型的契机？新西兰哈夫洛克北部供水污染的见解

摘要 随着危机的聚合越来越多地对社会生态系统造成破坏，个人和社区需要变得更有弹性和主动性，以确保他们对自然资源的获取和使用是可持续的。在新西兰北哈夫洛克镇发生史无前例的饮用水污染事件和突发公共卫生事件十个月后，我们对 20 家当地中小企业的业主进行了采访。我们应用了一个变革性的学习框架来探索中断是否提高了企业主对他们对自然系统的依赖和联系的认识，促使他们改变他们的水资源管理实践，和/或引导他们考虑或启动替代供水关系，从而重塑现行的提供者-用户“水利社会契约”。我们发现，企业主确实更加意识到自然系统和水对其业务的重要性，并对他们的做法进行了临时调整，以使他们能够在经济上生存，直到供水恢复正常。然而，因为他们认为没有理由挑战现有的供应商-用户供水模式，所以他们的主要重点是尽快恢复到以前的状态。