Appendix
Respondent Stakeholder
Causal
Mechanism Path
Respondent’s motivation
Of what is it a case or an
occurrence?
Long- or
Short-term
Positive
(+) or
Negative
(−)
1
Municipal
official
Agentialto
Material
Creating artificial wetlands and detention
and retention ponds
Flood mitigation
Long-term
+
Material to
Agential
Detention ponds are active during storms Detention facilities detaining
storm water
Short-term
+
Material to
Agential
Sports fields and parks mitigate
downstream flooding
The built environment
providing a service
Short-term
+
Ideational to
Agential
Engineers would like to get rid of
everything quickly—and that is not the
right thing
A paradigmconstituting
action
Short-term
−
Ideationalto
Materialto
Ideational
Retention that is always wet containing
fragmentise grasses with lots of
biodiversity that the ‘environmentalists’
like
A socially constructed idea
facilitating an eco-system
service
Long-term
+
Material to
Agential
River systems, flood plains, and estuaries
should not be built-up areas
Flood risk mitigation
Long-term
−
Material to
Agential
Estuarine protection and ‘to get them to
work properly’
Essential environmental
functioning
Long-term
+
Agential to
Material
Pollution causing alien invasives to
proliferate and chocking estuaries leading
to killing ‘all the animals and [the entire]
productive system’
Consecutive negative
environmental impacts
Long-term
−
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Respondent Stakeholder
Causal
Mechanism Path
Respondent’s motivation
Of what is it a case or an
occurrence?
Long- or
Short-term
Positive
(+) or
Negative
(−)
1
Municipal
official
Agentialto
Material
Creating artificial wetlands and detention
and retention ponds
Flood mitigation
Long-term
+
Material to
Agential
Detention ponds are active during storms Detention facilities detaining
storm water
Short-term
+
Material to
Agential
Sports fields and parks mitigate
downstream flooding
The built environment
providing a service
Short-term
+
Ideational to
Agential
Engineers would like to get rid of
everything quickly—and that is not the
right thing
A paradigmconstituting
action
Short-term
−
Ideationalto
Materialto
Ideational
Retention that is always wet containing
fragmentise grasses with lots of
biodiversity that the ‘environmentalists’
like
A socially constructed idea
facilitating an eco-system
service
Long-term
+
Material to
Agential
River systems, flood plains, and estuaries
should not be built-up areas
Flood risk mitigation
Long-term
−
Material to
Agential
Estuarine protection and ‘to get them to
work properly’
Essential environmental
functioning
Long-term
+
Agential to
Material
Pollution causing alien invasives to
proliferate and chocking estuaries leading
to killing ‘all the animals and [the entire]
productive system’
Consecutive negative
environmental impacts
Long-term
−
(continued)
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license
to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
R. Meissner, eThekwini’s Green and Ecological Infrastructure Policy Landscape,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53051-8
249