Editorial: The geography and governance of infrastructure provision

Europa XXI Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI:10.7163/eu21.2021.41.6
Martina Schorn, Alois Humer
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Infrastructure matters for regional development as well as for the individual wellbeing of people. This not only became painstakingly obvious since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic in early 2020. Thus, the phases of ‘lock-down’ during the pandemic became an eye opener for the condition of infrastructural fundaments of our cities and regions. Debates about systemic infrastructure for maintaining the functioning of our societies and economies – in scientific terms ‘Services of General Interest’ or the ‘Foundational Economy’ – received wide societal and political attention since the outbreak of the pandemic. Yet, already before the outbreak of this most severe global health crisis, discourses in applied social sciences have experienced an ‘infrastructural turn’, putting technical, social and green infrastructures into the centre of attention of social research, theory building and dissemination. This has led to different understandings of ‘infrastructure’ coexisting in academic and professional debates today. This introductory paper to the issue on ‘The Geography and Governance of Infrastructure Provision’ aims at giving an overview of current debates about infrastructure provision in Regional Science and Planning while introducing the six papers included in this theme issue of Europa XXI.
社论:基础设施提供的地理和治理
基础设施不仅关乎地区发展,也关乎人民福祉。这不仅自2020年初新冠肺炎大流行爆发以来变得非常明显。因此,大流行期间的“封锁”阶段让我们对城市和地区的基础设施基础状况大开眼界。自疫情爆发以来,关于维持社会和经济运行的系统性基础设施的辩论——用科学术语来说就是“公共利益服务”或“基础经济”——受到了社会和政治的广泛关注。然而,早在这场最严重的全球卫生危机爆发之前,应用社会科学的论述就经历了“基础设施转向”,将技术、社会和绿色基础设施置于社会研究、理论建立和传播的关注中心。这导致了对“基础设施”的不同理解在今天的学术和专业辩论中并存。这篇关于“基础设施提供的地理和治理”问题的介绍性论文旨在概述当前关于区域科学和规划中基础设施提供的辩论,同时介绍本主题问题中包含的六篇论文。
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