In 2011, an outbreak of dengue fever struck the most urbanised districts Punjab. After initially slow response, Punjab Government set up a digital disease surveillance system which was soon hailed as model for epidemic control and public health governance. Despite these successes, Aedes aegypti mosquitoes have continued to take advantage micro-ecologies Lahore’s urban landscape—in part because ...

In this study, the possible causal links between the built environment, travel attitudes and travel behaviour of people that have moved between totally different urban and transportation contexts were investigated. A quasi-longitudinal design was developed to collect data about the perceived neighbourhood characteristics, neighbourhood preferences, travel attitudes and changes in car, walking a...

The development of spatial data infrastructures is often the victim of an excessive focus on data and standards. In this paper we use the hermeneutics of Gadamer and Habermas to understand the problem of how spatial data infrastructures (SDI) can succeed, both in emergent and developed countries. We use Gadamer’s concept of phronesis to show how being an application-driven project is a key for ...

There is increasing recognition by researchers, businesses, and policymakers of the value of integrating the systems of systems of which cities are comprised. It is less clear how this can be achieved, in practice, from a technical and organizational standpoint. This paper is concerned with one element of this integration, namely, the integration of physical infrastructures and digital technolo...

In this study, the possible causal links between the built environment, travel attitudes and travel behaviour of people that have moved between totally different urban and transportation contexts were investigated. A quasi-longitudinal design was developed to collect data about the perceived neighbourhood characteristics, neighbourhood preferences, travel attitudes and changes in car, walking a...

Our societies are reliant on metals to such an extent that the total amounts of some of them in the built environment are comparable in size to the remaining amounts in known mountain ores. Because of concerns about mineral scarcity, the United Nations has assessed alternative sources for metal extraction and targeted urban areas in general and infrastructure systems in particular, since these ...

The concept “smart city” nowadays designates a plethora of things. multiple meanings associated with the smart city, and its imperfect synonym “robotic city”, continue to provide topic debate. In this paper we aim present an epistemologically grounded review articles focused on correlatives. goal article is ascertain whether scientific character theories employed in such discussed and/or ascert...

The Applications and Services in the Year 2021 workshop was successfully organized on January 27-28, 2016 in Washington DC through funding support from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The goal of the workshop was to foster discussions that bring together applications researchers in multidisciplinary areas, and developers/operators of research infrastructures at both national, regional, u...

The basis of this article is an ethnographical study conducted in a German electricity provider company. The energy supply sector is an important domain in the field of emergency management research since electricity providers maintain an important infrastructure in various crisis scenarios. There exist many dependencies and interrelations between power infrastructure providers and authorities ...