What Motivates Local Governments to Invest in Critical Infrastructure? Lessons from Chile
Patricio Valdivieso and
Krister P. Andersson
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Krister P. Andersson: Institute of Behavioral Science, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80303, USA
Sustainability, 2018, vol. 10, issue 10, 1-27
Abstract:
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.
Keywords: Chile; infrastructure investment; local governments; institutions; disaster risk reduction (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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