Sustainable Societal Infrastructures: A Resilient Approach to Prevent Conflicting Claims of Drinking Water and Other Infrastructures

Ritsche Anne Kloosterman, Wijnand Veeneman and Jan Peter van der Hoek
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Ritsche Anne Kloosterman: Vitens, Oude Veerweg 1, 8019 BE Zwolle, The Netherlands
Wijnand Veeneman: Department of Multi-actor Systems, Section of Policy, Organization, Law and Gaming (POLG), Delft University of Technology, Jaffalaan 5, 2628 BX Delft, The Netherlands
Jan Peter van der Hoek: Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Technical University of Delft, Mekelweg 5, 2628 CD Delft, The Netherlands

Sustainability, 2020, vol. 12, issue 3, 1-13

Abstract: Societal infrastructures are the lifeblood of societies, and the sustainability of infrastructures is very important. Societal infrastructures can experience conflicting spatial claims with other societal infrastructures, disturbing the sustainable situation. The objective of this paper is to design large infrastructures, with a focus on the Drinking Water Infrastructure (DWI), in a more sustainable way by using the resilience concept. To study this, a case study was done in the Netherlands, where an overlap is present between the DWI and the protection zones, and a new railroad and water safety measures in the river IJssel. The case showed that conflicting infrastructures are inflexible and unable to adapt to change due to several reasons in the governance and in the infrastructure system itself. The case was useful for identifying eight design principles to prevent conflicting claims between large infrastructures.

Keywords: societal infrastructures; sustainability; conflicting spatial claims; design principles; drinking water protection zones; groundwater; IJssel; Zwolle; railroad; governance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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