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Waste Siege: The Life of Infrastructure in Palestine is a nonfiction book by Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins.The book is an ethnography of waste management in the West Bank under the constraints of Israeli occupation, arguing that the Oslo Accords led to the abnormal presence and flow of waste for Palestinians, which Stamatopoulou-Robbins refers to as "waste siege".
Recent changes in ICT use globally have damaged the environment (in terms of waste and energy consumption etc.) but also have the potential to support environmental sustainability activities, [2] such as the targets set within the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) number 7 (MDG7) to "ensure environmental sustainability".
Sustainable urban infrastructure expands on the concept of urban infrastructure by adding the sustainability element with the expectation of improved and more resilient urban development. In the construction and physical and organizational structures that enable cities to function, sustainability also aims to meet the needs of the present ...
Official website for the NRC's Board on Infrastructure and Constructed Environment (BICE) List of all BICE reports from 1985; Official website for BICE's Federal Facilities Council (FFC) Rexmond C. Cochrane (1978). The National Academy of Sciences: The First Hundred Years, 1863-1963. National Academies. ISBN 9780309025188. NAP:11988. ISBN 0-309 ...
Sometimes the term infrastructure management is used to mean the same thing, most notably in the title of The International Infrastructure Management Manual (2000, 6th edition). Where there is no problem of confusion, the term asset management is more widely used, as in the professional societies: the Asset Management Council in Australia and ...
In business analysis, PEST analysis (political, economic, social and technological) is a framework of external macro-environmental factors used in strategic management and market research. PEST analysis was developed in 1967 by Francis Aguilar as an environmental scanning framework for businesses to understand the external conditions and ...
The success of implementing green infrastructure within communities that have experienced environmental injustice, like excess exposure to pollution or affordable housing, is dependent on the interaction and collaboration of project managers overseeing green infrastructure sites alongside community residents.
Building disaster-resilient infrastructure and early warning systems is costly, but typically yields benefits 4-36 times higher than initial outlay. However, there is a need to ensure there is maintenance of systems and assets, or else investments may be wasted and with catastrophic consequences.