Transdisciplinary Convergence: Intelligent Infrastructure for Sustainable Development

Grand convergence: a future sustainable development goal?

Development of Green Engineered Cementitious Composites for Sustainable Infrastructure Systems

Over the last decade, enormous strides have been made in creating engineered cementitious composites (ECC) with extreme tensile ductility, on the order of several hundred times that of normal concrete or fiber reinforced concrete (FRC). Current ECC investigations include load carrying structural members in new infrastructure systems, as well as for repair and retrofitting of existing structures...

Infrastructure Ecology: An Evolving Paradigm for Sustainable Urban Development

Increasing urbanization places cities at the forefront of achieving global sustainability. For cities to become more sustainable, however, the infrastructure on which they rely must also become more productive, efficient and resilient. Unfortunately the current paradigm of urban infrastructure development is fragmented in approach lacking a systems perspective. Urban infrastructure systems are ...

Sustainable Tourism Development on La Digue Island, Republic of Seychelles Transdisciplinary methods for sustainable solutions in a tropical paradise

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reThinKing susTainabiliTy: susTainable urban and infrasTruCTure developmenT introduction

In the foreword the Sustainable Urban and Regional Infrastructure Development: Technologies, Applications and Management,1 Kevin O’Connor points out that, in the 21st Century, ‘urban and infrastructure sustainability’ has become a very prominent element in the day-to-day debate on urban policy and the expression of that policy in urban planning and development decisions. While the origins of th...