Infrastructure interdependencies and their implications for urban climate mitigation
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The objective of this study is to contribute to the sustainability transitions by supporting the identification and recognition of infrastructure interdependencies in the urban climate-mitigation complex in a systemic and comprehensible way and thus promoting the cross-disciplinary communication which can essentially overcome the systems problems born out of the interdependent nature in socio-technical systems. We elaborate the role and characteristics of infrastructure systems from a socio-technical perspective, bridge earlier interdependency and systems frameworks to recognize infrastructure interdependencies, explore up-to-date examples of interdependencies in the Dutch urban areas, and finally discuss how these examples of socio-technical interdependencies can influence urban climate mitigation efforts. The research question is: what are the types of socio-technical interdependencies amongst infrastructure systems that can influence the urban climate mitigation efforts?
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