China's Urban Infrastructure Challenges

Urban Infrastructure and Morphosis

Financing Green Urban Infrastructure

This paper presents an overview of practices and challenges related to financing green sustainable cities. Cities are essential actors in stimulating green infrastructure; and urban finance is one of the promising ways in which this can be achieved. Cities are key investors in infrastructure with green potential, such as buildings, transport, water and waste. Their main revenue sources, such as...

Urban Infrastructure and Industrialization1

Public infrastructure in Third World cities is generally in a fairly poor condition. The quality of infrastructure services is further eroded by the rapid population growth in most of these cities. Poor infrastructure reduces the profitability of modern sector manufacturing and may therefore inhibit industrialization. The present analysis demonstrates that there may arise situations with stable...

Infrastructure Monitoring Challenges

When charged with monitoring the security of an enterprise, an information systems security professional must make choices. There are never enough resources to monitor everything that may be useful in detecting any type of security incident. But there must be enough to represent due diligence in protecting company assets. For example, where automated detection mechanisms do not make the risk/re...

Challenges in Critical Infrastructure Security

The threat landscape is continuously evolving. Large, widespread worm infections are leaving more and more space to more stealthy attacks targeting highly valuable targets. Industrial Control Systems (ICS) are rapidly becoming a new major target of cyber-criminals: ICS are evolving, bringing powerful capabilities into the critical infrastructure environment along with new and yet undiscovered t...