Such initiatives aim to use a very broad field of knowledge and expertise which, according to Birkmann et al. (2012), span social-ecological, psychological, critical infrastructure, organizational, and practical perspectives.
While these results are impressive, this approach will require specialist psychological staff, infrastructure to support delivery, and compliance by patients with routinised therapy sessions.
I believe Johnson made his plan for London cycling with the very best of intentions, but it did not account for the psychological effects of infrastructure.
Also it showed some unexpected problems i.e. infrastructure, social, psychological as mentioned above (see McAnulty and Baroudi 2010).
The report from that project, published in 2006, did identify something interesting, however: civic change isn't merely about infrastructure, but addressing "psychological barriers".
To recognize oneself as a victim — or perpetrator — requires serious emotional, psychological and social support, an infrastructure unavailable to many teenagers.
Equally important, Uber is changing the way people think about cities, transportation, and ownership and is laying a psychological foundation -- a mental infrastructure -- for a post-ownership society.
The typical effects of such disasters include injury, death, infectious diseases outbreaks, large-scale population displacement, disruption of essential services, destruction of property and infrastructure, economic loss and psychological harm [ 2, 3].
There are four strands of argument here: a technological claim (digital infrastructure is effectively Free), a psychological claim (consumers love Free), a procedural claim (Free means never having to make a judgment), and a commercial claim (the market created by the technological Free and the psychological Free can make you a lot of money).
Families of casualties face significant socioeconomic losses, and affected communities suffer from the destruction of critical infrastructure, environmental consequences, and collective psychological and social trauma [ 8, 10].
