Infrastructural ecologies : alternative development models for emerging economies / Hillary Brown and Byron Stigge.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brown, Hillary, author.

Stigge, Byron, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Infrastructure (Economics)--Developing countries.

Infrastructure (Economics).

Economic development--Environmental aspects.

Developing countries.

Infrastructure (Economics)--Environmental aspects--Developing countries.

Economic development--Environmental aspects--Developing countries.

Economic development.

Physical Description:

vi, 305 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2017]

Summary:

Many emerging nations, particularly those least developed, lack basic critical infrastructural services-affordable energy, clean drinking water, dependable sanitation, and effective public transportation, along with reliable food systems. Many of these countries cannot afford the complex and resource-intensive systems based on Western, single-sector, industrialized models. In this book, Hillary Brown and Byron Stigge propose an alternate model for planning and designing infrastructural services in the emerging market context. This new model is holistic and integrated, resilient and sustainable, economical and equitable, creating an infrastructural ecology that is more analogous to the functioning of natural ecosystems. Brown and Stigge identify five strategic infrastructure objectives and illustrate each with examples of successful projects from across the developing world. Each chapter also highlights exemplary preindustrial systems, demonstrating the long history of resilient, sustainable infrastructure. The case studies describe the use of single solutions to solve multiple problems, creating hybridized and reciprocal systems; "soft path" models for water management, including water reuse and nutrient recovery; post-carbon infrastructures for power, heat, and transportation such as rural microhydro and solar-powered rickshaws; climate adaptation systems, including a multipurpose tunnel and a "floating city"; and the need for community-based, equitable, and culturally appropriate projects. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Introduction: Closing the Infrastructure Gap 1

Learning from Caracol, Haiti 2

The Promise of Infrastructural Ecology 4

The Roots of the Infrastructure Gap 5

Infrastructural Ecology: Why and How 11

Industrial Symbiosis as a Model for Infrastructural Ecology: Two Examples 12

The Organization of This Book: The Five Objectives of Infrastructural Ecology 16

Imperatives for Infrastructural Ecologies 18

2 Solving for Pattern: From Interconnected to Symbiotic Systems 19

Preinclustrial Ingenuity: Multifunctional River Crossings and Agro-Infrastructure 21

Simple Integration: Colocated Systems 25

Commensalist Associations 29

Reciprocity across Service Sectors 35

Integrating Multiple Systems: Toward a Circular Economy 40

Forward Thinking 46

3 The Soft Path: Aligning Water Infrastructure with Natural Systems 47

Multiple-Use Water Systems 48

Capture and Storage for Water Sufficiency 52

Green Infrastructure at Work in Emerging Economies 60

Water Reuse and Nutrient Recovery: Sustainable Imperatives for the Anthropocene 69

Heading Down the Soft Path 75

4 Post-Carbon Infrastructure: Power, Heat, and Transport 77

Emerging Economies and the Carbon Challenge 77

Alternative Power Production 80

Alternative Heat Production 92

Managing Waste for Energy 95

Decarbonizing Transportation 107

Low-Carbon Paths Forward 113

5 Climate-Adaptive infrastructure: Responding to Changing Conditions 115

Coastal Protection and Adaptation: Hard and Soft Strategies 116

Inland Adaptations 128

Cross-Sector Solutions for Water Security 132

Looking Ahead: Climate and Infrastructural Ecologies 144

6 Infrastructural Coproduction: Inclusionary and Participatory Development 147

Decentralization and Community-Based Participation: Moving beyond Tokenism 151

Partnering for Service Provision 161

Entrepreneurship and Comprehensive Citizen Control 169

Stepping Up the Ladder 174

7 Implementing Infrastructural Ecologies: Improving the Odds 175

"How Are We Going to Pay for That?" 176

"Too Slow and Not Our Scope" 181

"That's Not How We Do It Here" 186

"Will the Next Administration Support This?" 189

Ways Forward 192

8 Putting the Five Objectives into Practice 193

Objective 1: Relational Solutions 193

Objective 2: Ecological Alignments 196

Objective 3: Low-Carbon Processes 199

Objective 4: Resilient Constructions 202

Objective 5: Codevelopment 205

Haiti Redux: A "Future-Proof" Vision? 207

Conclusion 211.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780262036337

0262036339

9780262533867

0262533863

OCLC:

959263395