Are wildcard events on infrastructure systems opportunities for transformational change?

Walsh, Conor; Glendinning, S. G.; Castan-Broto, V.; Dewberry, Emma; Powell, Mark

doi:10.1016/j.futures.2015.01.005

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“…Walsh et al [100] describe these occurrences as "wildcard events" (specifically referring to disaster events), and discuss their importance in terms of prompting change from the norm and advancing systems for improvement. The transition literature describes these external events as landscape factors from a multi-level perspective [10].…”

Section: External Trigger Eventsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Green Experiment: Cities, Green Stormwater Infrastructure, and Sustainability

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Green infrastructure is a unique combination of economic, social, and environmental goals and benefits that requires an adaptable framework for planning, implementing, and evaluating. In this study, we propose an experimental framework for policy, implementation, and subsequent evaluation of green stormwater infrastructure within the context of sociotechnical systems and urban experimentation. Sociotechnical systems describe the interaction of complex systems with quantitative and qualitative impacts. Urban experimentation-traditionally referencing climate change programs and their impacts-is a process of evaluating city programs as if in a laboratory setting with hypotheses and evaluated results. We combine these two concepts into a singular framework creating a policy feedback cycle (PFC) for green infrastructure to evaluate municipal green infrastructure plans as an experimental process within the context of a sociotechnical system. After proposing and discussing the PFC, we utilize the tool to research and evaluate the green infrastructure programs of 27 municipalities across the United States. Results indicate that green infrastructure plans should incorporate community involvement and communication, evaluation based on project motivation, and an iterative process for knowledge production. We suggest knowledge brokers as a key resource in connecting the evaluation stage of the feedback cycle to the policy phase. We identify three important needs for green infrastructure experimentation: (i) a fluid definition of green infrastructure in policy; (ii) maintenance and evaluation components of a green infrastructure plan; and (iii) communication of the plan to the community.

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Section: External Trigger Eventsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Green Experiment: Cities, Green Stormwater Infrastructure, and Sustainability

et al. 2017

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“…Walsh et al (2015) studied a range of unplanned disruptive events (or 'wildcard events') which had consequential impacts on significant transport infrastructures. The authors highlight such events as opportunities for significant learning and improvement in infrastructure, and also for behavioural change.…”

Section: The Behaviour Change Impacts Of Disruptive Events and Targetmentioning

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Understanding travel behaviour change during mega-events: Lessons from the London 2012 Games

Parkes

Jopson

Marsden

2016

Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice

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This paper presents results from a longitudinal study of the travel behaviour change associated with the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games (the 'Games'). The research examines commuter travel behaviour through a panel approach enabling an understanding of individual behaviour across three waves (before, during and after), with the study utilising unique access to a Transport for London panel study (n=1132). The findings indicate that a substantial amount of change occurred during the Games (54% made at least one change), with reducing or re-timing journeys being the most likely adaptations made. A key objective of this work was to advance the discussion about the theoretical constructs that are most applicable in the study of behaviour change associated with disruptive events, which was done through the application and critical evaluation of the Transtheoretical Model. The insights from the stages of change element of the model were relatively limited but the analysis shows significant differences in the underlying factors explaining change according to the type of change made (reduce, re-time, re-mode and re-route). Whilst the long-term behavioural impacts of events like the Games appear small, the study has uncovered a need to consider these behavioural choices as distinct rather than under the collective term of "travel behaviour change", as is current practice.

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“…Likewise, transformation has often been theorized to require a certain triggering perturbation, crisis (Moore et al 2014), or "wildcard event" (Walsh et al 2015) for it to take off. It remains somewhat mysterious how such macrodevelopments could inform situated action, however (Jørgensen 2012).…”

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Emergent transformation games: exploring social innovation agency and activation through the case of the Belgian electricity blackout threat

Pel¹,

Wallenborn²,

Bauler³

2016

E&S

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ABSTRACT. The persistence of current societal problems has given rise to a quest for transformative social innovations. As social innovation actors seek to become change makers, it has been suggested that they need to play into impactful macrodevelopments or "game-changers". Here, we aim to deepen the understanding of the social innovation agency in these transformation games. We analyze assumptions about the game metaphor, invoking insights from actor-network theory. The very emergence of transformation games is identified as a crucial but easily overlooked issue. As explored through the recent electricity blackout threat in Belgium, some current transformation games are populated with largely passive players. This illustrative case demonstrates that socially innovative agency cannot be presupposed. In some transformation games, the crucial game-changing effect is to start the game by activating the players.

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Are wildcard events on infrastructure systems opportunities for transformational change?

Cited by 29 publications

References 28 publications

The Green Experiment: Cities, Green Stormwater Infrastructure, and Sustainability

The Green Experiment: Cities, Green Stormwater Infrastructure, and Sustainability

Understanding travel behaviour change during mega-events: Lessons from the London 2012 Games

Emergent transformation games: exploring social innovation agency and activation through the case of the Belgian electricity blackout threat

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