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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
(−)
Material to
Agential to
Material
Estuarine functioning depends on the
volume of water or sediments entering the
system but has been upset in some way
due to water abstraction
Essential environmental
functioning for human
advantage
Long-term
−
Material to
Agential
Dunes offer protection to infrastructure
Essential environmental
functioning for human
advantage
Long-term
+
Agential to
Materialto
Ideational
Durban Port is looking into working with
nature in terms of green engineering that
are sustainable initiatives because it offers
better protection than engineered
initiatives
Using nature to human’s
advantage
Long-term
+
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Ideational to
Agential
People use the concept green
infrastructure in a policy or applied field
Using a concept
pragmatically
Long-term
+
Material to
Material
Green infrastructure provides ecosystem
services to humans
Engineering the environment
for human needs
Long-term
+
Ideationalto
Agential to
Material
When using the concept green
infrastructure, you separate the
environment and break the social
ecological combination
The specific usage of a
concept that does not related
to the environment
Long-term
−
Ideational to
Agential
People use the concept green
infrastructure in a political sense to defend
the environment
A concept becoming an
ideological tool
Long-term
−
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