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more a setting for practices than an active element within them. In contrast, Shove (2017: 155) distinguishes between three main roles that things play in practices: things can act as infrastructure that enables practices, they can be used as devices

storms have hit the region. Together, these events have affected health and household savings, damaged infrastructure, disrupted services and the economy, and caused environmental damage ( Signer et al. 2014 ). Similar events across the province have led

) Socioeconomic infrastructure Is the socioeconomic infrastructure adequate for the needs of the community? (17) Human health and environmental conditions What is the general health situation of local people also considering the prevailing environmental conditions

through Changes in Ecosystem Services and Infrastructure .” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 111 ( 11 ): 4332 – 4337 . doi:10.1073/pnas.1307712111 . 10.1073/pnas.1307712111 Ferraro , Paul J. , Merlin M. Hanauer , and Katharine R

often poor residents structurally vulnerable to climate disasters, pandemics, and the failures of everyday city infrastructures. These fatal couplings make it impossible to treat “urban,” “environment,” and “race” as distinct categories. Rather, as

for the pulp and paper industry, which meant chronic underinvestment in public services and resources, including schools, infrastructure, and other forms of economic development directed by the communities residing in those counties. A 2014 study by

dominant castes, yet Indian urban ecological discourse ignores their “infrastructural labor” ( Gidwani 2015: 575 ) and contributions towards mitigating the garbage crisis, while naturalizing their proximity to filth. Government agencies never mention the

States for example, racism shaped programs of infrastructural development, such as the interstate system. The highways, therefore, functioned as a space-annihilating technology that exploited and reproduced the second-class status of African Americans

and hazards that existed in their building's structure and infrastructure, and when they did not or could not, their experiences and the stories of others shaped their interactions with future built environments, such as in Frank London Brown

this case within the context of scientific practices co-produced by individuals and institutions, what Hirsch refers to as “knowledge infrastructures” (36). The Columbia River Basin spans multiple states, protected tribal fishing access, and an