Delivering Sustainable Infrastructure that Supports the Urban Built Environment

Boyle, Carol; Mudd, Gavin Mark; Mihelcic, James R.; Anastas, Paul T.; Collins, Terrence J.; Culligan, Patricia J.; Edwards, Marc; Gabe, Jeremy; Gallagher, Patricia M.; Handy, Susan; Kao, Jehng‐Jung; Krumdieck, Susan; Lyles, Lionel D.; Mason, I.G.; McDowall, Ron; Pearce, Annie R.; Riedy, Chris; Russell, John; Schnoor, Jerald L.; Trotz, Maya A.; Venables, Roger; Zimmerman, Julie; Fuchs, Valerie J.; Miller, Steve; Page, Shannon; Reeder-Emery, Karen

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“…Water is becoming an increasingly scarce resource, thus adaptation to climate change is leading to increased use of on-site rainwater tanks [90,91]. In Australia, for example, the use of tanks is relatively common and some state governments, local governments and NGOs are already subsidising the purchase of additional rainwater tanks [92][93][94][95][96].…”

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Ensuring adaptation to climate change does not increase health risks from the built environment

Walls¹

2016

J Environ Eng Ecol Sci

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Adaptation to climate change is taking place and there is a need to ensure that it escalates unabated to provide support for and mitigate the adverse effects of the present world population. However, the built environment is changing at an exponential rate in all aspects such as complexity, coverage over the earth's surface and in accommodating a burgeoning world population. Natural disasters such as flooding, inundation, drought, hot days and fire continue to occur, some of which may be attributed to or exacerbated by climate change, impact on the built environment. Apart from direct mortality of many people and resulting morbidity affecting many more people, the vulnerabilities of the built environment in providing shelter, warmth, comfort and services to people are exposed and challenged with each successive disaster event. While we strive to improve our processes and implement new technologies to cope and improve quality of life under a climate change regime, we must also be sufficiently circumspect to avoid adverse and unintended consequences, which may include eye diseases from modern artificial lighting, increased radon exposure from air-tight buildings, Legionella infections from air conditioning systems, dengue fever due to increasing numbers of on-site rain water tanks and others.

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Section: On-site Rain Water Storage Tanksmentioning

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Ensuring adaptation to climate change does not increase health risks from the built environment

Walls¹

2016

J Environ Eng Ecol Sci

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“…Urban infrastructures are a set of engineered facilities including water, transportation, energy, and buildings (Ness, 2008). These infrastructures as a system influence the emergent performances of urban systems, and the performance affects future infrastructure decisions (Boyle et al, 2010). Because of the unsustainable practices of developing urban infrastructures, environmental risks (e.g., resource depletion, groundwater depletion, and greenhouse gas emissions) and public health impacts are becoming significant (Pataki et al, 2011;Sperling & Ramaswami, 2013).…”

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Research Development on Sustainable Urban Infrastructure From 1991 to 2017: A Bibliometric Analysis to Inform Future Innovations

Liu

et al. 2019

Earth's Future

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Studies of sustainable urban infrastructure are expanding since the United Nations proposed the concept of sustainability in 1982. The need for more sustainable urban infrastructures led to many research efforts on innovative technologies and development strategies. We analyzed research progress on sustainable urban infrastructure from 1991 to 2017 using bibliometric, keyword co-occurrence and document cocitation network analysis. An increasing publication number suggests a rapid development of the sustainable urban infrastructure research area, but the development is still in an emerging stage. With respect to the analysis of research themes, we analyzed keyword co-occurrence networks in the three stages of . We observed substantial expansions and intensive interconnections of research theme clusters on sustainable urban infrastructure. The themes from 2009 to 2017 include "critical infrastructure," "urban planning and design," "development need," "technology innovation," and "cyber-physical system." The United States produced 28.93% of the publications and played a core role in the international collaboration network. We further compared national interests among top productive countries, which highlights different priorities of investing more sustainable urban infrastructures. Finally, we presented an in-depth analysis of four emerging technology innovations, namely, renewable energy, smart grid, green infrastructure, and cloud computing regarding research directions and challenges. Our results not only provide a valuable reference for researchers who are interested in sustainable urban infrastructures but also put forward the emphasis and orientations of future studies.Plain Language Summary More than a half of world population are currently living in urban areas for decent work and high-quality services. How we develop cities and infrastructures affects resource needs, quality of life, and the impact of natural environment. Considering the increasing pressure from resource depletion, ecosystem degradation, and climate change, it is critical and urgent to foresee what future cities and infrastructures should be and the gaps we should overcome. Our study provided an overview for a broad audience to recognize the current research progress of sustainable urban infrastructure. Our study shows that this topic is still in an emerging stage with a steady growth of publications. The research themes have expanded dramatically to cover critical infrastructure, development need, technological innovation, urban planning design, and cyber-physical system. United States is currently leading this research area, but countries have their own interests in sustainable urban infrastructure depending on economic development. In the end, we provided an in-depth analysis about renewable energy, smart grid, green infrastructures, and cloud computing in terms of research themes and challenges. The testing and validation of these technologies will be required that can fulfill the complex needs of urban citizens in a sustainable and rel...

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“…Urban Infrastructure plays a salient role in shaping urban space, determining where inhabitants live, work and create wealth; how they move; and how they exchange or sell their goods. The influence of urban infrastructure on city development, function, management, and growth over the short, medium, and long time has been frequently emphasized (see, for example, Azizi, 2000;Boyle et al, 2010;Ausbel & Herman, 1988;Cotton & Franceys, 1994;Seitz, 1995;Seitz & Licht, 1993).…”

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Challenges of Coordination in Provision of Urban Infrastructure for New Residential Areas: The Iranian Experience

Yazdani

Dola

Azizi

et al. 2014

EMSD

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Urban infrastructure provides foundations for modern civil community and enhances quality of life. Coordination between different urban infrastructure agencies plays a pivotal role in Environmental Management and Sustainable Development ISSN 2164-7682 2015 www.macrothink.org/emsd 49 the success of provision of these critical facilities. In turn, identifying and managing interdependency between different urban infrastructures is a key issue in establishing robust coordination in the process of the provision of urban infrastructure. To this end, the present paper, by reviewing the pertinent literature and investigating the current coordination context of urban infrastructure provision in Iran, provides a conceptual framework for identifying the roots of coordination challenges in this salient domain of urban knowledge. The interdependency between urban infrastructure and complexity of the urban infrastructure provision, two significant features of urban infrastructure provision, are two highlighted points in the framework.

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Delivering Sustainable Infrastructure that Supports the Urban Built Environment

Abstract: Sustainable living will require megacity-level infrastructural support designs and paradigms.

Cited by 45 publications

References 24 publications

Ensuring adaptation to climate change does not increase health risks from the built environment

Ensuring adaptation to climate change does not increase health risks from the built environment

Research Development on Sustainable Urban Infrastructure From 1991 to 2017: A Bibliometric Analysis to Inform Future Innovations

Challenges of Coordination in Provision of Urban Infrastructure for New Residential Areas: The Iranian Experience

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