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Infrastructural Ecologies - Alternative Development Models for Emerging Economies (Paperback)
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Infrastructural Ecologies - Alternative Development Models for Emerging Economies (Paperback)
Series: Infrastructural Ecologies
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An integrated, holistic model for infrastructure planning and
design in developing countries. 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 multi-purpose tunnel and a "floating city";
and the need for community-based, equitable, and culturally
appropriate projects.
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