Infrastructure
- Importance of evolutionary change, for example gene flow and microbial, designing for that cf. Anthropogenic Change
Definitions
Structures and processes that support life including ecosystems, rivers, lakes, forests, the ocean, and the atmosphere...
Frischmann, Brett M. Infrastructure: The Social Value of Shared Resources. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.
Green infrastructure (this remains an anthropocentric and paternalistic definition):
“a network of natural, semi-natural and restored areas designed and managed at different spatial scales (from local to global), that encompasses all major types of ecosystems (marine, terrestrial and freshwater), and that aims to conserve biodiversity, mitigate emissions of greenhouse gases, enable societal adaptation to climate change, and deliver a wide range of other ecosystem services”
Silva, José Maria Cardoso da, and Emily Wheeler. ‘Ecosystems as Infrastructure’. Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation 15, no. 1 (2017): 32–35. https://doi.org/10/gdvpng.
In Water
Human-Made
- dykes and other coastal protection structure
- shoreline alteration to reduce erosion
- roadways, ferries, subsea tunnels and cross-sea bridges
- oil and gas platforms
- vessels and navigation technology
- mariculture pastures, aquaculture pens
- seaport and wharfs, fish landing ports and processing plants
- storage and transportation facilities
- undersea cables
- discards, such as plastic
- offshore wind power installation
- artificial islands
Prehuman/Nonhuman
- coastlines, estuaries and watersheds
- ecological processes and structures of productivity and biodiversity
- trophic structure
- marine and benthic habitats
- ocean currents, tides and winds
- hydrologic and geochemical cycling,
- ocean depth ,water level and volume
- coastal features and substrate
- weather, temperature and climate regulations
- bio-geo-chemical processes
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