L8: Jannes water infrastructure governance Flashcards
What was the bottleneck with the Feyenoord brige?
It needed to be renovated or expanded, but it’s also heritage and protected by legislation. You can’t change the outlook too much. There also is only money to renovate the bridge. Not to expand it or anything.
What are the two separated worlds
Development: urban development, regional development. Housing in the Feyenoord case. Place of bridge in the grander scheme.
And
maintenance / operation. People who are very much concerned with the bridge. Very focused on engineering.
Explain components of infrastructure according to Star, 1999
Embeddedness (provide connection to existing other infrastructures), transparency, learned as part of membership, links with conventions of practice, embodiment of standards, built on an installed base (based on something that is already there. Not built it from scratch. ), becomes visible upon breakdown (when there is something wrong it says something to us. kind of depoliticized.).
Reach: very wide not connected to once site, but goes much further
How does path dependency relate to ‘built on an installed base’?
choices in the past lead to infrastructure. You don’t build it from scratch, since there are already other networks somewhere.
How is infrastructure a past component of the future? relate this to four aspects
We build to make it for a longer time.
Rigid: we cannot quickly change it as much as possible
Intert to change: it’s there to stay for a while
Sunk costs: expensive to expand new infra
Vested interests: big interests. parties have invested in it for a long time.
Increased returns: the more you make investments, the more difficult it becomes more difficult to switch pathways.
Explain the infrastructure lifecycle.
After a infrastructure has been built it goes into a phase of stagnation. It will not grow anymore. Mainly see quality improvements –> renewal of the system –> systems building and establishment and then –> system expansion and momentum.
What is the critical juncture and how can it be a window of opportunity?
social-institutional and physical system. Opportunity for change: reproduction or change. NEeds to be balance between both.
Social action is embedded in an institutional setting. Name the two types of rulings
Formal: juridical responsibility
Informal: values and norms
Explain how actors think aobut insititutions.
People act like institutions are things that are just out there and cannot be changed. They can be changed by us as a society though:
- Institutions only gain meaning if they are renacted and re eanacted by actors
- Actors can create and recreate institutions, which offers the possibility of institutional (re-)design. They are created by us.
Why do institutions play out differently across space and time?
Because interpretations and performances differ across different countries. Also in the 80s/90s they were looked at completely differently then now.
Explain the scheme from Sorensen, 2010: 281.
T = 1: initial conditions. SO the established institutional setting.
T = 2: critical juncture: so the renewal of a waterway or road infrastructure
T = 3: Institutional response: so what do we do? reproduction or complete change?
Explain the New insititutional economics perspective.
humans, rationally driven, logics of instrumentality, effeciecny
Explain the Socio-constructionists institutionalism
cultural significers. appropiateness, values
Difference between mechanism of rproduction and mechanism of change from New institutional economic perspective and social constructs approach
reproduction: Rational cost benefit analysis (NIE)
Change: (NIE) new insights –> new tradeoffs: challenging instrumentality
SCN: reproduction: reconforming appropriateness
SCN: change: changes in the values of actors.
Explain the Dutch waterway case in short.
Many levels of governmetn working together. Rijk has a different focus than province or municipality. Many navigation locks require renewal before 2040.
