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high count for material causal mechanisms (p. 87). He is also very knowledgeable
about the municipality’s green and ecological infrastructures, and he referred to the
DCCS, which, according to him, outlines the policies regarding green infrastructures.
Furthermore, he indicated that the municipality’s Water and Sanitation Department
was drafting its own climate change strategy at the time of the interview. He went
on to speak about some of the projects and initiatives that have been introduced
by the municipality with respect to green infrastructures, like the Sihlangzimvelo
project (p. 126), and collaboration between the municipality and UKZN through
the DRAP and the Sustainable and Healthy Food Systems projects. With respect to
the link between structural and agential causal mechanisms, Respondent 16 specified that the municipality is planning to get together with the IPCC, and that he is
the lead author of specific IPCC reports. During the interview, Respondent 16 also
spoke about the C40 initiative and described it as a network of African cities that
has been developed around the ‘good principles’ (ideational instruments) of climate
adaptation.
In order to elaborate further on the identified causal mechanisms, a comprehensive list of the causal mechanisms that were identified during the PULSE
3 analysis
will be presented in the Appendix. The list not only shows the causal mechanisms
that each respondent emphasised, but also what case or occurrence it represented and
whether the respondent flagged the occurrence as positive or negative. The Appendix
demonstrates that the respondents view the presence or implementation of green and
ecological infrastructures in a positive light and that their existence has favourable
consequences for the environment and the goods and services that they provide. It
is also significant to see that the interviewees perceive green and ecological infrastructures as being a service to the human population of eThekwini. This is in line
with the dominance of the hydrosocial contract theory and the liberal institutionalism
perspective, which emphasise the natural and economic function of natural resources
and the systems from which they are derived.
Respondents 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 9 and 11 emphasised certain negative aspects with
respect to the implementation of green and ecological infrastructure policies and
initiatives, including flooding, littering, transparency, the lack of communicating the
benefits of the initiatives to the public, rodents and venomous snakes, as well as the
unharmonious governance of land in buffer zones.
Thus far, I have considered the causal mechanisms at a local government level
and how they are linked to various processes that interact between, and within, the
green and ecological infrastructure policy landscape and the natural environment.
In the next section, I will elaborate on the visibility of the problem-solving and
critical theory perspectives in the interviews, in order to show how extensively the
respondents framed their narratives from the problem-solving and/or critical theory
discourse.
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high count for material causal mechanisms (p. 87). He is also very knowledgeable
about the municipality’s green and ecological infrastructures, and he referred to the
DCCS, which, according to him, outlines the policies regarding green infrastructures.
Furthermore, he indicated that the municipality’s Water and Sanitation Department
was drafting its own climate change strategy at the time of the interview. He went
on to speak about some of the projects and initiatives that have been introduced
by the municipality with respect to green infrastructures, like the Sihlangzimvelo
project (p. 126), and collaboration between the municipality and UKZN through
the DRAP and the Sustainable and Healthy Food Systems projects. With respect to
the link between structural and agential causal mechanisms, Respondent 16 specified that the municipality is planning to get together with the IPCC, and that he is
the lead author of specific IPCC reports. During the interview, Respondent 16 also
spoke about the C40 initiative and described it as a network of African cities that
has been developed around the ‘good principles’ (ideational instruments) of climate
adaptation.
In order to elaborate further on the identified causal mechanisms, a comprehensive list of the causal mechanisms that were identified during the PULSE
3 analysis
will be presented in the Appendix. The list not only shows the causal mechanisms
that each respondent emphasised, but also what case or occurrence it represented and
whether the respondent flagged the occurrence as positive or negative. The Appendix
demonstrates that the respondents view the presence or implementation of green and
ecological infrastructures in a positive light and that their existence has favourable
consequences for the environment and the goods and services that they provide. It
is also significant to see that the interviewees perceive green and ecological infrastructures as being a service to the human population of eThekwini. This is in line
with the dominance of the hydrosocial contract theory and the liberal institutionalism
perspective, which emphasise the natural and economic function of natural resources
and the systems from which they are derived.
Respondents 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 9 and 11 emphasised certain negative aspects with
respect to the implementation of green and ecological infrastructure policies and
initiatives, including flooding, littering, transparency, the lack of communicating the
benefits of the initiatives to the public, rodents and venomous snakes, as well as the
unharmonious governance of land in buffer zones.
Thus far, I have considered the causal mechanisms at a local government level
and how they are linked to various processes that interact between, and within, the
green and ecological infrastructure policy landscape and the natural environment.
In the next section, I will elaborate on the visibility of the problem-solving and
critical theory perspectives in the interviews, in order to show how extensively the
respondents framed their narratives from the problem-solving and/or critical theory
discourse.