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3 eThekwini’s Green and Ecological Infrastructure Policy Landscape
1 talked about people who would like to settle and build housing structures on the
flood plains, be they permanent (e.g. residential areas) or temporal (e.g. informal
settlements).
Respondent 2’s causal mechanism graph (Fig. 3.35) shows that she emphasised
material causal mechanisms slightly more than agential mechanisms, and she also
accentuated ideational causal mechanisms more than structural mechanisms. She was
one of the few respondents that indicated the salience of ‘context’ when I asked her
about her understanding of the concept ‘green infrastructure’ (p. 89). She also explicitly mentioned the concept of ‘natural resources’ when talking about green infrastructures, which highlights the material causal mechanisms in her responses. Within
this context, she also spoke of the coastal infrastructure not being emphasised very
often when researchers or policy-makers discuss green or ecological infrastructures.
In addition, she referred to these natural resources as affording ‘protection’, which is
an agential causal mechanism. This dichotomy between natural resources (material
Fig. 3.35 Respondent 2’s identified causal mechanisms (after Sil and Katzenstein 2010; Meissner
2017)
3 eThekwini’s Green and Ecological Infrastructure Policy Landscape
1 talked about people who would like to settle and build housing structures on the
flood plains, be they permanent (e.g. residential areas) or temporal (e.g. informal
settlements).
Respondent 2’s causal mechanism graph (Fig. 3.35) shows that she emphasised
material causal mechanisms slightly more than agential mechanisms, and she also
accentuated ideational causal mechanisms more than structural mechanisms. She was
one of the few respondents that indicated the salience of ‘context’ when I asked her
about her understanding of the concept ‘green infrastructure’ (p. 89). She also explicitly mentioned the concept of ‘natural resources’ when talking about green infrastructures, which highlights the material causal mechanisms in her responses. Within
this context, she also spoke of the coastal infrastructure not being emphasised very
often when researchers or policy-makers discuss green or ecological infrastructures.
In addition, she referred to these natural resources as affording ‘protection’, which is
an agential causal mechanism. This dichotomy between natural resources (material
Fig. 3.35 Respondent 2’s identified causal mechanisms (after Sil and Katzenstein 2010; Meissner
2017)