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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
(−)
Ideational to
Material to
Ideational
With ecological infrastructure we are
trying to reinvent the term nature to appeal
to different audiences-economists and
engineers
A statement critical of the
concept ecological
infrastructure
Short term
+
Ideational to
Ideational
Ecological infrastructure is like a sex doll A critical analogy to
emphasise the point
Short term
+
Ideational to
Structural
We are inventing terminology to suit
disciplines
A statement critical of the
concept ecological
infrastructure
Short term
+
Ideational to
material
We have become quite mechanistic when
we talk about nature
A statement critical of the
concept ecological
infrastructure
Short term
+
Ideational to
Agential to
Ideational to
Agential
Ecological infrastructure provides
nature-based solutions for water
security–nature-based solutions
conserving wetlands and building of
artificial wetlands
Paralleling nature with
ecological infrastructure
Short term
+
Structural to
Agential to
Material
D’MOSS is an explicit policy looking
explicitly at open spaces that generate
benefits to humans including flooded
retention and flood mitigation
A specific policy for specific
purposes
Long-term
+
Materialto
Material
A lot of open spaces are along rivers and
streams
Aquatic environments are
important in an open-space
policy
Long-term
+
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