This book offers the reader a deeper understanding of the eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality’s green and ecological infrastructure policy landscape. Through an in-depth examination, utilising the PULSE3 analytical framework, the author indicates how experts frame and implement the municipality’s green and ecological infrastructure strategies  and projects. Although the initial purpose of this book was to investigate the role of green and ecological infrastructures in eThekwini’s water security aspirations, the author realised that climate change adaptation and mitigation play a more central role in motivating the municipality to develop and implement such science-driven projects. To be sure, science, informed by a positivist paradigm, informs how, where and when the municipality should develop green and ecological infrastructure. A positivistic stance furthermore generatin this policy landscape where science and politics meet at a local government level and the book offers insights on the science–policy interface as well as normative and value orientations that positivism often ignores. The book, furthermore, shows the utility of the PULSE3 framework and how it can assist scientists of all stripes to gain a deeper understanding of the complications that humankind faces. This book fills a market gap by providing a view of scientists thinking about problems and how to solve these using established paradigms and theories.weiterlesen