Infrastructural Ecologies: Alternative Development Models for Emerging Economies (Brown Hillary)(Paperback)

An integrated, holistic model for infrastructure planning and design in developing countries.Many emerging nations, particularly those least developed, lack basic critical infrastructural services--affordable energy, clean drinking water, dependable sanitation, and effective public transportation, along with reliable food systems. Many of these countries cannot afford the complex and resource-intensive systems based on Western, single-sector, industrialized models. In this book, Hillary Brown and Byron Stigge propose an alternate model for planning and designing infrastructural services in the emerging market context. This new model is holistic and integrated, resilient and sustainable, economical and equitable, creating an infrastructural ecology that is more analogous to the functioning of natural ecosystems.Brown and Stigge identify five strategic infrastructure
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