‘Critical infrastructures’ are those that deliver important goods and services to society in the face of high levels of variability. They may be electricity supply systems or food producing systems, for example. The key question is how do the goods and services (whether electricity or food) get delivered reliably, and who is involved?
In the fourth chapter of my new book – Navigating Uncertainty: Radical Rethinking for a Turbulent World – I take the example of the electricity supply system in California, studied by Emery Roe and colleagues based in Berkeley, and a pastoral system in northern Kenya, central to the PASTRES research.
This article is from Zimbabweland, a blog written by IDS Research Fellow Ian Scoones. Zimbabweland focuses on issues related to rural livelihoods and land reform in Zimbabwe.