TY - THES ID - 139190266 TI - Infrastructure as a Development Paradigm. An illustrated redefinition in the context of Moatize in Mozambique. AU - Medina García, Clara AU - De Meulder, Bruno. AU - De Queiroz Barbosa, Eliana Rosa AU - KU Leuven. Faculteit Ingenieurswetenschappen. Opleiding Master of Human Settlements (Leuven) PY - 2018 PB - Leuven KU Leuven. Faculteit Ingenieurswetenschappen DB - UniCat UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:139190266 AB - In 2016 the Mozambican Government subscribed the Regional Development Plan (PEOT) for the Zambezi basin as the roadmap towards development in the following 30 years. This paper critically addresses the paradigm of development pursued in this document and the infrastructures planned to achieve it, assuming that it is mainly preoccupied with following the old occidental paradigm of development and that it fails both to translate learnings to the local territorial and social realities and to face current and future challenges such as climate change and rapid urban growth. How can infrastructures enhance resilience in the future? Can the relationship between natural systems and human infrastructures be rethought so that landscape features and ecosystem services substitute or improve infrastructural networks? Taking the specific case of Moatize, the following pages reflect on the functions and challenges of infrastructure and build on alternative infrastructural approaches to the monofunctional and centralized grey infrastructures conceived in the PEOT. To explore alternative scenarios and to build on a redefinition of infrastructure as a development paradigm, the main methodology used will be research by design, informed by literature on development and infrastructures to frame the Mozambican context and illustrated with successful study cases that use novel technologies and principles towards sustainable and resilient development. ER -