A chapter examining formal–informal entanglements in the political ecologies of landscape infrastructure and resource use. 210–225). The discussion centres on Landscape infrastructure, Informality, Political ecology, and Resource use.

The analysis draws on Conceptual analysis, critical urban theory, and comparative interpretation. The geographical or conceptual scope is Global urban contexts.

Within the Lab’s agency-and-systems strand, the work moves beyond passive stock-and-flow representations to examine how institutions, practices, infrastructures and non-human processes shape metabolic change. Written by Daniela Perrotti, it appears in or was issued by Routledge — Informality through Sustainability: Urban Informality Now (pp. 210–225).