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Home Courses Next Generation Infrastructures Course materials Lectures Part D: Social complexity of infra-systems

Part D: Social complexity of infra-systems

Course subject(s) Module 1: Complexity of Infrastructure

In the last video of this unit, we will zoom in on the question what the relationships between actors and the interactions between them mean for the complexity of the infra-system. We will see that the behaviour of the many different actors involved in an infra-system is not always straight forward, and is sometimes even strategic behaviour which increases the social complexity of infra-systems.

After having seen this last video of this unit you will hopefully understand why infra-systems can be regarded as socio-technical complex systems!

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