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In this study, we identify institutional factors and processes that foster local government decisions about disaster risk reduction, especially critical infrastructure investments and maintenance.
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Why is it important?
We propose that municipal institutional capacities, organization, leadership, and multilevel governance will affect critical infrastructure investments by local governments. To examine these ideas, we employ qualitative analysis to compare two representative medium–sized cities in Chile. Our results suggest that there are two main institutional factors that constitute the foundation for improvements in critical infrastructure in Chile: municipal institutional context and the local administration’s links with decision makers at higher levels of governance.
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The results imply that future interventions to strengthen local government efforts for disaster risk reduction in terms of critical infrastructures would benefit from a pre-intervention diagnosis of the target location’s existing institutional context and linkages with external governance actors
Dr Patricio Valdivieso
Universidad de Los Lagos
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This page is a summary of: What Motivates Local Governments to Invest in Critical Infrastructure? Lessons from Chile, Sustainability, October 2018, MDPI AG,
DOI: 10.3390/su10103808.
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What Motivates Local Governments to Invest in Critical Infrastructure? Lessons from Chile
In this study, we identify institutional factors and processes that foster local government decisions about disaster risk reduction, especially critical infrastructure investments and maintenance. We propose that municipal institutional capacities, organization, leadership, and multilevel governance will affect critical infrastructure investments by local governments. To examine these ideas, we employ qualitative analysis to compare two representative medium–sized cities in Chile. Our results suggest that there are two main institutional factors that constitute the foundation for improvements in critical infrastructure in Chile: municipal institutional context and the local administration’s links with decision makers at higher levels of governance. These results imply that future interventions to strengthen local government efforts for disaster risk reduction in terms of critical infrastructures would benefit from a pre-intervention diagnosis of the target location’s existing institutional context and linkages with external governance actors
What Motivates Local Governments to Invest in Critical Infrastructure? Lessons from Chile
Sustainability 2018, 10(10), 3808; https://doi.org/10.3390/su10103808
What Motivates Local Governments to Invest in Critical Infrastructure? Lessons from Chile
Sustainability 2018, 10(10), 3808; https://doi.org/10.3390/su10103808
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