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Journal articles on the topic "Infrastructure"
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Tammisto, Tuomas. "The Disposition of Oil Palm Infrastructure." Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society 48, no. 2 (May 10, 2024): 111–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.30676/jfas.143611.
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The Tzen oil palm plantation in the northwestern corner of Wide Bay in Pomio District, East New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea is a highly infrastructured space. Roads surround and order the oil palm plantings into a grid-like space and connect the main estate to the extensions of the plantation in the surrounding area. Not only is the plantation an area characterized by these ‘hard infrastructures’, but the plantation was established in 2008 as a part of a large combined logging and agriculture project aimed to bring income, employment and road infrastructure to the rural and remote Pomio District. In this essay, I examine these two infrastructural features of the Tzen oil palm plantation. I begin by examining the specific components of the wider infrastructural system of the plantation, such as the road network, the palm oil mill and the palm oil pipeline that connects to the mill. After this, I examine the logging and agriculture projects as a part of the plan which the plantation was established. I argure that while the provision of infrastructure is built into the plan of the logging and plantation project, so the extractive logic of this project is built into the infrastructural system being developed.
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Johnson, Adriana Michele Campos, and Daniel Nemser. "Introduction." Social Text 40, no. 4 (December 1, 2022): 1–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/01642472-10013276.
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Abstract This essay introduces the special issue “Reading for Infrastructure: Worlds Made and Broken.” It offers an account of the “infrastructural turn” in the humanities and explains how the assembled essays frame infrastructures as making worlds with dispositions that facilitate certain “forms of life,” even as they break and dismantle others. These essays cluster around three key themes that open onto the imbrication of “modern” infrastructures and racial capitalism: slavery, borders, and energy. The introduction also outlines the various conjugations of reading and infrastructure suggested by the essays: practices of reading new things as infrastructure, reading infrastructures themselves, and engaging with readings of infrastructure.
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Salaudeen, Jubril A. "SUKUK: POTENTIALS FOR INFRASTRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA." Advanced International Journal of Banking, Accounting and Finance 3, no. 7 (June 15, 2021): 104–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.35631/aijbaf.37009.
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The growth of any economy in the world will happen on the back of the needed infrastructural facilities. And to build the needed infrastructures for national development requires a lot of money and time. There have been incessant concerns of the citizenry on the present level of infrastructural neglect and decay in Nigeria. The infrastructural decay in Nigeria ranks very high when compared to the national resources to the availability and quality of the needed infrastructure. The availability of needed infrastructures will enhance ingenuity, novelty, employment, self-confidence, wealth creation, and social security. However, it is wretched to note that the dire infrastructure in Nigeria is in a bad state thereby creating an evolving crisis. The inability of the government of Nigeria to maintain and endure her perilous infrastructure such as; road rails and pipelines network, the micro small and medium enterprises will require developed and scalable transportation infrastructure ( Land, Air, and Water), Electricity energy ( power for industrial and domestic use), Educational infrastructure ( Schools, Research and instructional materials), Health infrastructure ( Hospital, trained personnel, and Equipment), Security infrastructure ( Police, Military and Para-military). This study aims to explicate the potential of Sukuk as an alternative and sustainable financial vehicle for financing infrastructural development in Nigeria. The study is library-based and analytical and evaluation approaches are used to explore related library-based data on the causes and effects of infrastructural development in Nigeria. The study investigates and describes how the Nigerian government can utilize the potentials of Sukuk investment for infrastructural development across the nation.
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Chetverikov, A. O. "Scientific Facilities as a Subject Matter of “Infrastructure Law”: Une Approche Québéсoise". Kutafin Law Review 8, № 3 (5 жовтня 2021): 485–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.17803/2313-5395.2021.3.17.485-494.
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The article deals with the original approach of Canadian French-speaking province (federal entity) to legal regulation of scientific facilities as a type of infrastructural objects governed by “infrastructure law.” The author firstly proves that the expression “scientific facility” and “Megascience” represent no more than the specific types of social infrastructure and, thus, generally denoted in legal instruments as “research infrastructure” which may be qualified as “large” (Megascience), “medium”, “small” etc. Further the article explores the modern legislation of Quebec which, unlike other countries, has decided to create a full-fledged “infrastructure law” governing, amongst other types of infrastructure, the research infrastructure. The article points out and analyses the particularities and principle findings of Quebec infrastructure laws and by-laws: the “supraministerial” governance of all infrastructure projects, the general public infrastructure company (Quebec Society of Infrastructures) etc. The latest developments in the Quebec “infrastructure law” relating to information infrastructures are also taken into account.
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Xing, Jack Linzhou. "The Temporality of and Competition between Infrastructures." Transfers 11, no. 3 (December 1, 2021): 80–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/trans.2021.110305.
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This article examines the competition between taxis and e-hailing from the perspective of the temporality of infrastructures, which refers to 1) decay and maintenance of infrastructures, 2) imaginations of infrastructures regarding old, new, past, and future, and 3) the (spatio)temporal experience of infrastructure supporters. I propose that taxis and e-hailing are simultaneously transport and livelihood infrastructures that facilitate passengers’ and drivers' lives, and that they are maintained by the two parties. One reason that taxis are maintained in this competition lies in taxi drivers’ preference for taxis as a livelihood infrastructure. The article highlights infrastructure supporters’ labor and spatiotemporal experience, emphasizes the importance of the perspective of the decay and maintenance of infrastructures, and proposes a dialectic view of the infrastructure-related imaginations of old and new, especially in a context in which disruptive innovations in infrastructural technologies are continuously emerging.
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Onuoha, D. C., O. G. Ogbo, and M. Amaechi. "The Need for Resilient Infrastructure as an Adaptive Measure for Climate Change." British Journal of Environmental Sciences 10, no. 4 (April 15, 2022): 17–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.37745/bjes.2013/vol10n4pp1727.
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Climate change is one of the most pressing environmental issues of the 21st century, and its impacts extend to the current society's infrastructure. Consequently, the need for resilient infrastructure to withstand climate impacts becomes paramount. This paper reviewed the need for resilient infrastructure in today's society. Literature was reviewed under three major subcategories viz a viz impacts of climate change on infrastructure, impacts of infrastructural development on climate change, and climate-resilient infrastructure. It was found that the extent to which climate change translates into risks for infrastructure depends upon the interaction of the changing climate hazards with the infrastructure. In Nigeria and Africa at large, many infrastructures give an unsatisfactory performance, and they are short-lived due to technical and non-technical factors. Extreme weather events due to climate change will likely increase disruption to these infrastructures. The paper recommended a great need to overhaul already existing infrastructure to withstand climate change disruptions better.
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Truelove, Yaffa. "Gendered infrastructure and liminal space in Delhi’s unauthorized colonies." Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 39, no. 6 (November 26, 2021): 1009–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/02637758211055483.
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This paper takes an embodied approach to the lived experiences and everyday politics of liminal neighborhoods and infrastructures in Delhi’s unauthorized colonies, which lack official entitlements to networked infrastructures such as water and sewerage. Bringing a feminist political ecology lens to critical infrastructure studies, I show how gendered social relations, subjectivities, and the unequal experience of urban liminality are tied to accessing water and its fragmented infrastructures beyond the network. In particular, liminal infrastructural space is produced in unauthorized colonies through not only these neighborhoods’ quasi-legal status and unequal access to urban water, but also through gendered discourses and the socially differentiated ways water infrastructures are co-produced, managed, and made livable by residents. As water is primarily accessed beyond the network via tubewells and tankers, I demonstrate how these fractured modalities ultimately constitute gendered infrastructural assemblages that enable water’s circulation across neighborhoods but also serve to deepen forms of gendered marginality and differentiation. Here, gendered infrastructural practices and labor to negotiate and supplement fragmented components of water infrastructure shape subjectivities and possibilities for social relations and urban claims-making. These infrastructural assemblages expose both the situated experience of urban liminality, as well as its transcendent possibilities.
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Rowland, Nicholas J. "Infrastructural Lives: Urban Infrastructure in Context." Science & Technology Studies 28, no. 3 (January 1, 2015): 125–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.23987/sts.55346.
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Rao, Yichen. "Discourse as infrastructure: How “New Infrastructure” policies re-infrastructure China." Global Media and China 8, no. 3 (September 2023): 254–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/20594364231198605.
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The term “New Infrastructure” has been highlighted in China’s recent policies. It refers to a set of new, and expanding, policies and the discourse surrounding them which support the development of facilities, equipment, and systems derived from the latest technologies, including 5G Internet of Things, AI, cloud computing, and data centers. This article reviews China’s New Infrastructure policies, analyzing their specific discursive ontologies and how they relate to major state projects to “re-infrastructure” China’s economy. It introduces the concept of “discursive infrastructure” and argues that the policies that redefine and recategorize infrastructure themselves serve as a form of infrastructure. Key to the concept is the recognition that discursive infrastructure relies on mutually constitutive material and semiotic dimensions and dialectically reproduces both symbols of progress and positive infrastructural imaginaries. Drawing on an analysis of policy documents and other discursive materials, the article tracks New Infrastructure’s fetish-like existence and unravels the multiple political modalities, as well their varying efficacies, that are manifested through the discursive publics they generate. It likewise reveals some emerging conflicts that appear across New Infrastructure’s different contexts, showing critical gaps between imaginaries and actualities, all of which have a profound effect on a re-infrastructured China.
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McArthur, Jenny. "Comparative infrastructural modalities: Examining spatial strategies for Melbourne, Auckland and Vancouver." Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space 36, no. 5 (April 11, 2018): 816–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2399654418767428.
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Infrastructure systems are critical to support sustainable and equitable urbanisation, and infrastructure is becoming more prominent within urban spatial strategies. However, the fragmented governance and delivery of spatial plans and infrastructure projects create a challenging environment to embed planning goals across the planning, delivery and operation of infrastructure systems. There is significant uncertainty around future needs and the complex ways that infrastructures influence socio-spatial relations and political-economic processes. Additionally, fragmented knowledge of infrastructure across different disciplines undermines the development of robust planning strategies. Comparative analysis of strategic spatial plans from Auckland, Melbourne and Vancouver examines how infrastructures are instrumentalised to support planning goals. Across the three cases, the analysis identified four common infrastructural modalities: rescaling socio-spatial relations through targeted intensification, intra-urban mobility upgrades and containment boundaries; re-localising socio-spatial relations to the suburban scale with ‘complete communities’; protection of ‘gateway’ precincts; and local planning provisions to support housing affordability. By examining infrastructure through a theoretical framework for suburban infrastructures, this analysis revealed how infrastructures exert agency as artefacts shaping socio-spatial relations and through the internalisation of political-economic processes. Each modality mobilised infrastructure to support goals of global competitiveness, economic growth and ‘liveability’. Findings suggest that spatial strategies should take a user-focused approach to infrastructure to meet the needs of diverse urban populations, and engage directly with the modes of infrastructure project delivery to embed planning goals across design, delivery and operations stages. Stronger institutional mandates to control land-use and provide affordable housing would improve outcomes in these city-regions.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Infrastructure"
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Tubridy, Daniel. "Redesigning urban infrastructures : new infrastructure design imaginaries and practices." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2019. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/22841/.
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According to Rubio and Fogué (2013, 1039), cities are witnessing a "technological and infrastructural invasion" associated with new low-carbon and sustainable technologies. In this context, infrastructure has (re-)emerged as a topic of debate in design theory and practice. One strand of this debate which, the thesis argues, constitutes a new infrastructure design imaginary suggests that new infrastructures should be designed as "multifunctional" systems, taking account of potential ecological, aesthetic and cultural benefits. It is suggested that design could facilitate new affective relationships between people, infrastructures and ecological systems, thereby contributing to sustainability. Now that new approaches to design are being adopted in some places and circumstances, there is an opportunity to investigate their assumptions, logics and effects and whose interpretation of design and aesthetics is given legitimacy. As such, the overall aim of this thesis was to explore contemporary meanings and practices of infrastructure design. This has encompassed an investigation of what types of infrastructure are being designed, what model of design is adopted and who the "infrastructure designer" mobilised might be. Evidence has been collected in two stages through a total of 42 interviews, first, in a scoping phase with a sample of infrastructure design professionals and, second, in two case studies of stormwater design, Hans Tavsens Park and Korsgade in Copenhagen and "Grey to Green" in Sheffield. The case studies explore where, how and why new visions of infrastructure design are being realised and describes the actors, institutions and agendas which influence the infrastructure design process. The key finding of the case study research is that understanding infrastructure design visions and practices requires exploring the material, institutional and economic context for design. Investigation of the context for design demonstrates that seemingly avant-garde design strategies have, in both cases, become implicated in socially-exclusive processes of transformation. Overall, the research foregrounds and explores an under-researched and under-valued dimension of urban development. It establishes a conceptual framework to guide future research in a field that is likely to become more important. Its key contribution is to provide new perspectives and in-depth analysis of both contemporary visions of infrastructure design and on the infrastructure design process.
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Zurawski, Maciej. "An infrastructure mechanism for dynamic ontology-based knowledge infrastructures." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/3291.
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Both semantic web applications and individuals are in need of knowledge infrastructures that can be used in dynamic and distributed environments where autonomous entities create knowledge and build their own view of a domain. The prevailing view today is that the process of ontology evolution is difficult to monitor and control, so few efforts have been made to support such a controlled process formally involving several ontologies. The new paradigm we propose is to use an infrastructure mechanism that processes ontology change proposals from autonomous entities while maintaining user-defined consistency between the ontologies of these entities. This makes so called semantic autonomy possible. A core invention of our approach is to formalise consistency constraints as so called spheres of consistency that define 1) knowledge regions within which consistency is maintained and 2) a variable degree of proof-bounded consistency within these regions. Our infrastructure formalism defines a protocol and its computational semantics, as well as a model theory and proof theory for the reasoning layer of the mechanism. The conclusion of this thesis is that this new paradigm is possible and beneficial, assuming that the knowledge representation is kept simple, the ontology evolution operations are kept simple and one proposal is processed at a time.
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Lukens, Jonathan. "DIY infrastructure." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/47634.
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This document investigates a set of projects I call DIY Infrastructure, in which designers are building alternative infrastructural systems. Through these projects, new actors-often non-experts-reveal and re-imagine long-established social and technological relationships which were previously off limits to them. These projects are significant to the study of design and digital media for the following reasons:
First, they detail a new area of design. The designers of DIY infrastructure present an expansion of the scope of design coupled with a nuanced and almost paradoxical understanding of infrastructure as an intractable and exceedingly complex problem. At the same time, their work reveals the extensive social and political effects of existing design decisions-the far-reaching consequences of the design decisions which formed existing infrastructure. These decisions are in play across a variety of scales of time and space, affecting individual bodies as much as continental ecosystems, and shaping personal behavior as much as global commerce and trade.
Second, they expand the scope of digital media studies. Digital media studies often overlook infrastructure, in spite of their interdependence. Digital media are involved in areas including the control and monitoring of the electrical system, the treatment and movement of water and sewage, and the routing of freight through intermodal shipping systems. The study of DIY infrastructure design, and infrastructure more broadly, exposes the role of digital media in shaping these overlooked aspects of modern life. There is an invisible relationship between digital media, infrastructure, and political authority, and it includes the interdependence of infrastructure and the contingent nature of our ongoing reliance on these complex sociotechnical systems.
For example, Cloacina is the project of two activists developing a new municipal waste disposal system in which a decentralized networked system significantly lessens the amount of water used in processing human waste. Another project, Feral Trade Courier, employs the sort of shipping database we might associate with FedEx or UPS to facilitate an alternative shipping infrastructure, in which volunteers transport goods in an ad hoc freight network.
I begin by surveying and defining DIY practice, delineating the properties of infrastructure, and determining the ways that those properties and practices can be augmented or diminished by the affordances of digital media. Next, I review the attributes that these DIY infrastructure projects share before revealing their significance through in-depth case studies. Finally, each of these case studies highlights a particular lesson from DIY infrastructure. Feral Trade Courier exposes the role of the social and the subjective in the design of logistics systems. Village Telco and Fluid Nexus show us that the relationship between established infrastructure and DIY infrastructure can be both complementary and antagonistic. Cloacina provides us an example of a way that DIY infrastructure might scale up and effect lasting sociotechnical change.
Whether motivated to reveal or overcome dependence on infrastructure, address flaws in its design, or correct externalities generated by its use, new designers have begun to engage with the problem of infrastructure in new ways. This document analyzes these design projects through a series of case studies, synthesizing a new perspective on the study of infrastructure through design and on the scope of digital media research along the way.
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Kurlbaum, Ryan E. (Ryan Edward). "Social infrastructure." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/82164.
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Thesis (S.M. in Architecture Studies)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2013.<br>This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.<br>Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis. Vita.<br>Includes bibliographical references (p. 120-123).<br>Current urbanization patterns and aging transportation infrastructures have marginalized millions of US citizens. The result is that 4 .5 million US residents live within 100 meters of a four-lane highway' and have become hound to communities, which endure social hardship and environmental detriment. For too long, the physical form of the city has taken a relaxed position on these endangered and often hazardous urban edges. Considering the social, spatial and environmental conditions. the central argument of this thesis is that architecture built along major transportation corridors must respond to the scale of the infrastructure itself Dense concentrations of pollution and rising transient populations (homeless, working poor and chronically unemployed) surrounding transportation infrastructure call for a new approach to contemporary urbanism. The thesis Social Infrastructure investigates an elevated 3/4 mile stretch of highway 1-93 in South Boston - an infrastructural remnant of the 14.6 billion dollar Big Dig'. TIle elevated highway built in 1955, has formed a number of under-utilized and vacant sites along and under the 1-93 corridor. This thesis explores a new mode of urbanism, which leverages policy, urban design, landscape, and architecture to embrace the infrastructural scale and to demonstrate new potential for this bleak urban condition. The result is a set of three hybrid architecture and landscape typologies which seek to resolve social inequity, reuse infrastructural space, and remediate environmental conditions.<br>by Ryan E. Kurlbaum.<br>S.M.in Architecture Studies
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Bird, Julia. "Essays on the Economics of Infrastructure and Public Investment." Thesis, Toulouse 1, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015TOU10054.
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Dans cette thèse, je présente trois essais qui traitent de diverses questions liées aux investissements publics. Tout d'abord, dans le premier chapitre, est examiné l'impact des politiques de Partenariats Publics-Privés. Les gouvernements et organisations internationales promeuvent souvent les Partenariats Publics-Privés comme moyen de limiter les investissements en infrastructure entrepris à des fins électorales. Utilisant un modèle théorique simple, je montre que cet avantage des Partenariats Publics-Privés n’est pas, en fait, vérifié. Trois types de contrats de Partenariat Public-Privé potentiels sont présentés et les problématiques liées à chaque type de contrat sont mis en évidence. Dans le deuxième chapitre, un travail en collaboration avec Margaret Leighton (TSE), j'examine les transferts intergouvernementaux au Brésil et me demande si ceux-ci conduisent à une augmentation des dépenses gouvernementales locales ou au contraire s’ils les évincent. J'utilise une variation exogène du niveau des transferts qu'une municipalité reçoit pour prouver que, contrairement à la théorie de l’évincement des dépenses locales, le gouvernement local augmente les recettes fiscales suite à une augmentation des transferts et déclenche à son tour des dépenses locales, et en particulier des dépenses d’investissement. Cet effet varie selon la richesse de la municipalité, les municipalités les plus pauvres augmentant notamment leurs dépenses sociales, mais pas selon le pouvoir politique de l'administration municipale locale. Je constate également qu'une augmentation des dépenses locales due aux transferts a des effets directs sur les ressources éducatives, indiquant que l'argent reçu par l'intermédiaire de ce canal n’est pas dépensé inefficacement.Enfin, dans le troisième chapitre, laissant de côté les décisions politiques inhérentes au processus de provision d'infrastructures, j'examine les résultats d'un tel investissement. En collaboration avec Stéphane Straub (TSE), nous utilisons une expérience naturelle, la construction d'une nouvelle capitale au Brésil, Brasilia, et la construction ultérieure d'autoroutes radiales qui la connectent à des villes importantes préexistantes, pour montrer que la construction d'autoroutes a un impact substantiel sur le PIB et les populations. Ces effets sont hétérogènes ; selon que la municipalité nouvellement raccordée se connecte à une ville industrialisée, plus riche, bien desservie, ou à uneville plus pauvre et moins développée, les effets sont différents. Dans le nord, de nouvelles autoroutes conduisent à une augmentation du PIB et de la population des municipalités près de l'autoroute, parce que ces zones accèdent à des marchés plus vastes et deviennent des centres secondaires de l'activité économique. Dans le sud, cependant, pour les municipalités à quelques centaines de kilomètres de leur capitale d'Etat, une nouvelle connexion réduit le PIB et la population, car l'activité économique se déplace vers les grandes agglomérations préexistantes<br>In this thesis, I provide three essays which address various issues related public investment. Firstly, in chapter one, I look at the impact of politics on the use of Public-Private Partnerships. I use a simple theoretical model to show that while international organisations and governments globally often promote Public-Private Partnerships as a means to limit pork barrel politics in infrastructure investments, this assumed advantage of Public-Private Partnerships does not in fact exist. I discuss different types of potential Public-Private Partnership contracts, and show in turn the issues with each of these contract types. In the second chapter, joint work with Margaret Leighton (TSE) I examine intergovernmental transfers in Brazil, and whether these lead to increases in local level government spending or whether they crowd-out local expenditures. I use exogenous variation in the level of transfer a municipality receives to find that as opposed to the theory of crowding-out, increased transfers actually lead to crowding in; the local government increases tax revenues following an increase in transfers, and in turn raises spending, particularly capital spending. This effect varies according to the wealth of the municipality, with poorer municipalities increasing particularly their social spending, however it notably does not vary according to the political power of the local municipal government. I also observe that increased local spending through transfers has direct effects on local outcomes, indicating that money received through this channel is not lost to inefficiencies in spending. This is documented in educational spending and resultant outcomes. Finally in chapter three, leaving the political decisions involved in infrastructure provision aside, I examine the outcomes of such investment. In joint work with Stéphane Straub (TSE), we use a natural experiment, the building of a new capital in Brazil, Brasília, and the subsequent construction of radial highways to connect it to pre-existing important towns, to show that the building of highways has substantial impacts on GDP and populations. These effects are heterogeneous, and in Brazil the effects vary according to whether the newly connected municipality connects to an industrialised, richer, well-serviced city, or a poorer, less developed city. In the North, new highway connections lead to increased GDP and populations for municipalities near the highway, as these areas gain access to wider markets and become secondary centres of economic activity. In theSouth, however, for municipalities within a few hundred kilometres of their state capital, a new highway connection leads to reduced GDP and population, as economic activity appears to shift towards the major pre-existing agglomerations. These centres are large and developed enough to have substantial economic activity and widespread provision of local services
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Blood, Jessica, and jessica blood@rushwright com. "Landscape as Infrastructure." RMIT University. Architecture and Design, 2007. http://adt.lib.rmit.edu.au/adt/public/adt-VIT20080130.095737.
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This research is an investigation into the phrase 'landscape as infrastructure' and questions the influence of this notion in the design of new housing developments along the Maribyrnong River, Melbourne. The phrase lends itself to a systems based agenda because the word 'infrastructure' implies that it performs some kind of function. It is through this functioning that we can understand the way landscape acts as a stage for activities to occur, not just background to the object. The main question within the research is how landscape can precede housing development and set the parameters for its location, density, and relationship to the river. This is tested through four overriding themes which summarise the key ideas and methodologies for designing with landscape as infrastructure. The themes 'Catalyst', 'Time', 'Cause and Effect' and 'Experience' are tested on four different sites along the Maribyrnong River responding to different site conditions and the influence of geology and topography. The four sites have been named to reflect the primary function they perform within the overall strategy. To establish a framework for this discourse the research has been filtered through seven principals, originally developed by Stan Allen as a series of propositions for infrastructure. These principals question issues of force, process, typology, scale, invisible form, structure, function and change and visible form and set up a mechanism enabling me to challenge the notion of landscape as infrastructure. If the landscape is infrastructure then Allen's principals will also apply for the design of housing developments. This Appropriate Visual Record (AVR) is a selection of research material and design solutions developed over the last three years as part of the Research Masters Degree at RMIT.
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Cai, Guan Yan. "IP infrastructure geolocation." Thesis, Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/45165.
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Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited<br>Physical network maps are important to critical infrastructure defense and planning. Current state-of-the-art network infrastructure geolocation relies on Domain Name System (DNS) inferences. However, not only is using the DNS relatively in accurate for infrastructure geolocation, many router interfaces lack DNS name entries. We adapt the technique of Wang et al. to send trace route probes from distributed vantage points, and approximate a target’s location by finding the nearest landmark. To evaluate the technique’s performance, we geolocate router interfaces previously geolocated via DNS-based router positioning (DRoP). Our results show that 50% of the targets have error distances greater than 2,400 km; however, 75% of the nearest landmark predictions are less than 5 ms distant. We find that geolocation accuracy is insensitive to vantage point location, while the use of more vantage points improves accuracy. To better understand these results, we use Constraint-based Geolocation (CBG) on a subset of DRoP predictions. Forty-six percent of 4,638 DRoP location inferences are in regions outside the feasible physical boundaries imposed by CBGand 56% are 1,800 km away from the CBG centroid. Our findings suggest that our methodology can supplement prior work to not only geolocate infrastructure without DNS names, but also improve accuracy.
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Shwani, Hazim G. "Critical infrastructure protection." Thesis, Utica College, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1555605.
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<p> This research study focused on identifying the protection of critical infrastructures and enhancing cybersecurity. The most recent cyber practice that is in place to protect critical infrastructures was also explored. From the literature review, it was concluded there are security loopholes in critical infrastructures. The study also uncovered that the federal government uses the newest cybersecurity tools, but does not share cyber vulnerabilities and risks with the private sector operating the infrastructures. The study also included an in-depth examination of Congressional documents pertaining to cybersecurity. However, it concluded that implementing rules and regulations is an ardouous step for the US Congress due to conflicts of interest. Finaly, the studied uncovered robust training, information sharing, and a contingency plan as the DHS's strategy to adapt to cyber threats that are emerging. Key Words: Critical Infrastructure, Cybersecurity.</p>
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Raven, Paul Graham. "Making infrastructure legible." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2018. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/22772/.
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This thesis represents the development and pilot application of a novel methodology for the speculative qualitative assessment (or "prototyping") of new infrastructural systems. Its core aim and guiding principle is to make infrastructure legible: to reveal and narrate its role in everyday life from a more human perspective than that of the paradigmatic technology-focussed approach. Or, more simply, the project aims to understand how infrastructures develop, how they evolve and entangle over time. The methodology is centred on a novel model of sociotechnical change, known as the infrastructural trialectic. The trialectic makes a unique relational distinction between infrastructural systems and the technologies through which infrastructural functions are accessed, traces vectors of influence between focal actors in the model, and provides a framework for mapping the articulatory institutions which are enrolled in the formation and mutation of infrastructural assemblages. The methodology has two modes of application: the historical mode, and the speculative. In the historical mode, the trialectic model becomes the lens of a situated longue duree analysis which explores the historical dynamics of sociotechnical change in the assemblages underpinning a particular everyday practice. In the speculative mode, the findings from the historical mode are used as the basis for an extrapolative and speculative analysis of a novel technological intervention into the practice previously analysed. Drawing on techniques from strategic foresight and critical design, the prospective technology is "prototyped" against the context of a suite of four divergent near-future scenarios, so as to "stress test" the plausibility of its deployment under difficult circumstances. This thesis presents and applies a novel model of sociotechnical change, and in doing so demonstrates that the shortcomings of paradigmatic models of change might be addressed through such an approach. It further demonstrates a unique hybrid method for the assessment and critique of new technologies and practices alike, which provides a more human perspective upon infrastructure (and indeed upon change itself) than prevailing approaches to assessment.
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Eid, Serge Emile. "Financing infrastructure projects." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/43894.
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Thesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2008.<br>Leaf 82 blank.<br>Includes bibliographical references (leaves 79-81).<br>Infrastructure is of great importance to the development and economic growth of communities. Due to the increased demand on sophisticated infrastructure, governments' budgets are not anymore able to satisfy this growing need. The role of the private sector in infrastructure finance is essential, and the amount of private investments in infrastructure projects has been dramatically increasing over the last few years. Public Private Partnerships, Private Finance Initiatives, and Alternative Service Delivery methods are becoming the trends for procuring infrastructure, and by relying on Project Finance, the private sector is more willing to be involved in these projects. These methods, combined with effective risk management techniques, would provide a solution to the decreasing governments' budget. Meanwhile, the construction experience, operation efficiency, and financial capabilities of the private sector may be a way to relieve governments from the burden of infrastructure development.<br>by Serge Emile Eid.<br>M.Eng.
Books on the topic "Infrastructure"
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Isle of Wight (England). Joint Planning Technical Unit., ed. Infrastructure. Newport, I.o.W: Isle of Wight Joint Planning Technical Unit, 1992.
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Statistical, Economic, and Social Research and Training Centre for Islamic Countries., ed. Infrastructure. Ankara, Turkey: SESRTCIC, 1991.
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Price, Tom. Infrastructure. 2455 Teller Road, Thousand Oaks California 91320 United States: CQ Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/cqr_ht_infrastructure_2017.
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Greenblatt, Alan. Infrastructure. 2455 Teller Road, Thousand Oaks California 91320 United States: CQ Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/cqr_ht_infrastructure_2016.
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(India), 3iNetwork. India infrastructure report, 2007: Rural infrastructure. New Delhi: Oxford Univ., 2007.
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Fafinski, Mateusz. Roman Infrastructure in Early Medieval Britain. NL Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789463727532.
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Early Medieval Britain was more Roman than we think. The Roman Empire left vast infrastructural resources on the island. These resources lay buried not only in dirt and soil, but also in texts, laws, chronicles, charters, even churches and landscapes. This book uncovers them and shows how they shaped Early Medieval Britain. Infrastructures, material and symbolic, can work in ways that are not immediately obvious and exert an influence long after their creators have gone. Infrastructure can also rest dormant and be reactivated with a changed function, role and appearance. This is not a simple story of continuity and discontinuity: It is a story of adaptation and transformation, of how the Roman infrastructural past was used and re-used, and also how it influenced the later societies of Britain.
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Anwar, Nausheen H. Infrastructure Redux. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137448170.
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Murer, Stephan, Bruno Bonati, and Frank J. Furrer. "Infrastructure." In Managed Evolution, 129–59. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-01633-2_4.
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Marker, Brian R. "Infrastructure." In Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series, 1–3. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12127-7_170-1.
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Kordon, Arthur K. "Infrastructure." In Applying Data Science, 353–63. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-36375-8_12.
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Weik, Martin H. "infrastructure." In Computer Science and Communications Dictionary, 781. Boston, MA: Springer US, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-0613-6_8990.
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Kakushadze, Zura, and Juan Andrés Serur. "Infrastructure." In 151 Trading Strategies, 269–73. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02792-6_20.
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Ruddell, Benjamin L., Hongkai Gao, Okan Pala, Richard Rushforth, and John Sabo. "Infrastructure." In The Food-Energy-Water Nexus, 259–95. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29914-9_10.
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Soga, Kenichi. "Infrastructure." In Geotechnics and Earthquake Geotechnics Towards Global Sustainability, 59–74. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0470-1_4.
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Otorbaev, Djoomart. "Infrastructure." In Central Asia's Economic Rebirth in the Shadow of the New Great Game, 142–68. London: Routledge, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003360728-8.
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Noha, Mellor. "Infrastructure." In Arab Digital Journalism, 16–33. London: Routledge, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003218838-2.
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Carolini, Gabriella Y., and Isadora Cruxên. "Infrastructure." In The Routledge Handbook of Financial Geography, 232–60. 1 Edition. | New York : Routledge, 2020. | Series: Routledge companions in business, management & marketing: Routledge, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781351119061-13.
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Bykov, Sergei A., and Vladimir A. Shiboldenkov. "Infrastructure-as-Code Approach for IT-Infrastructure." In 2025 7th International Youth Conference on Radio Electronics, Electrical and Power Engineering (REEPE), 1–6. IEEE, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1109/reepe63962.2025.10971160.
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Bellini, Emanuele, and Emiliano Degl'Innocenti. "Transitioning SSH European Research Infrastructures to Critical Infrastructure Through Resilience." In 2024 IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Resilience (CSR), 801–6. IEEE, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/csr61664.2024.10679383.
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Tkáč, Andrej, and Martin Bobák. "Virtual Infrastructure Management." In 2025 Cybernetics & Informatics (K&I), 1–6. IEEE, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1109/ki64036.2025.10916477.
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Abduletif, Abdulkadr Ahmed, Gyorgy Neszmelyi, and Henrietta Nagy. "Role of transport infrastructure in the Ethiopian economy." In 23rd International Scientific Conference Engineering for Rural Development. Latvia University of Life Sciences and Technologies, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technologies, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.22616/erdev.2024.23.tf051.
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The reduction of poverty, assurance of food security, and sustainable development of a country are all closely tied to infrastructural development. Developing nations face significant economic growth challenges due to inadequate transport infrastructures. Although the importance of transport infrastructures has been studied, the impact of the distribution of federal roads in Ethiopia has not been specifically investigated. This research aims to investigate the significance of the transport sector in Ethiopia’s economic growth and identify the primary challenges facing the sector. Data from various secondary sources, such as the World Bank and Ethiopian Roads Authority, official reports, and published research works were used to conduct this research. Descriptive statistical analysis was employed to describe the secondary data, while charts, tables, and graphs were utilized to visualize the data findings. Ethiopia has faced numerous challenges in establishing and maintaining essential infrastructure, but the research suggests that the economic growth of the country is largely attributed to the development of its transport infrastructure. Despite ongoing obstacles, progress in the transport sector has been evident on an annual basis. The substandard quality of the road transport infrastructure has been a major impediment to the overall development of the country. Considering Ethiopia’s significant resource endowment, it is imperative that the continued development of the transport infrastructure remains a top priority.
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Jiang, Guofei, George Cybenko, and Dennis McGrath. "Infrastructure web: distributed monitoring and managing critical infrastructures." In Enabling Technologies for Law Enforcement, edited by Simon K. Bramble, Edward M. Carapezza, and Lenny I. Rudin. SPIE, 2001. http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.417522.
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Samuels, Linda C., and Bernardo Teran. "Infrastructural OpportunismI-11_A Next Generation Infrastructure Case Study." In 2017 ACSA Annual Conference. ACSA Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.35483/acsa.amp.105.7.
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Federal transportation legislation known as MAP-21 brought renewed attention to a proposed interstate corridor (I-11) connectingLas Vegas and Southern Arizona to complete a new Canada to Mexico, or CANAMEX, corridor. Using I-11 as a case study, our studio explored three key ways otherwise status quo infrastructure can be transformed into innovative, sustainable solutions: by intervening in the design and planning process, by transforming the existing mono-functional freeway prototype, and by evolving the freeway paradigm from an “engineering only”to a “sustainability first” model. Students and faculty from architecture, planning and landscape architecture investigated the possibilities of transforming the proposed I-11freeway from a limited use, auto-dominant roadway (the “red arrow” scenario) into a sustainable, multi-functional, ecologically and socio-economically focused Super corridor (the“green arrow” scenario). The results of this work, summed up on this poster, exhibit the advantages of infrastructure opportunism –leveraging investments intended for status quo infrastructure towards more broadly inclusive, design-centric, next generation proposals.
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Ghijsen, Mattijs, Jeroen van der Ham, Paola Grosso, and Cees de Laat. "Towards an Infrastructure Description Language for Modeling Computing Infrastructures." In 2012 IEEE 10th International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications (ISPA). IEEE, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ispa.2012.35.
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Wilburn, Bennett. "Infrastructure." In ACM SIGGRAPH 2006 Courses. New York, New York, USA: ACM Press, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1185657.1185700.
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Randeniya, M., R. Palliyaguru, and D. Amaratunga. "Defining critical infrastructure for Sri Lanka." In 10th World Construction Symposium. Building Economics and Management Research Unit (BEMRU), University of Moratuwa, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.31705/wcs.2022.26.
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In the last few decades, infrastructure has played a major role in supporting modern society. Moreover, there has been an increase in natural and human-induced disasters worldwide. In these situations, securing infrastructure is a major requirement. Confusion and misinformation can result if the boundaries of what constitutes critical infrastructure for a country are not clearly defined. Identification of critical infrastructure is the first step in the process of securing and protecting the available critical assets. This study aims to establish the infrastructure that can be classified as "critical infrastructure" in Sri Lanka. This includes establishing a clear margin for subsectors that fall within and operate within critical infrastructure and, consequently, ascertaining a clear definition for the critical infrastructure of the nation. This study adopted a mixed-method approach, which included an initial comprehensive literature analysis on infrastructure and the parameters involved in determining the criticality of infrastructure. Secondly, a questionnaire and semi-structured interviews were conducted to determine which infrastructure sectors would be most critical to Sri Lanka. The most significant infrastructures with the parameters of national security, economic sustainability, quality of life, public health, and safety, the criticality of infrastructure were ranked in both pre- and post-disaster scenarios, and an appropriate margin for the Sri Lankan critical infrastructure was demonstrated. The emergency services sector was found to have the most significant infrastructure in both pre- and post-disaster situations. Accordingly, the study reveals emergency services, water, energy, transportation, telecommunication, and finance as the critical infrastructures for Sri Lanka.
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Jurisic, Dragisa. "CHALLENGES OF CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE PROTECTION IN CONTEMPORARY SECURITY ENVIRONMENT." In SECURITY AND CRISIS MANAGEMENT - THEORY AND PRACTICE. RASEC, 2023. https://doi.org/10.70995/rsnh8963.
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Infrastructures are all around and the life of people in contemporary times depends on them. People are using that infrastructure to make their lives easier and more acceptable. In order to have a nice life people are trying to protect some of that infrastructure. The same situation is with the states. Protection of critical entities or infrastructure is one of the state's tasks when it comes to the basic needs of the population, but these infrastructures usually, in the contemporary world, cross the border, and then there are more subjects responsible for protection. Moreover, some infrastructures are so important and they are in focus for the all world. That kind of infrastructure should be also in some way protected because it has benefits for most of the population in the world. However, the big geopolitical players are calculating depending on their interests whether they would protect that infrastructure or not. This paper shows that world critical infrastructure depends on the interest of big geopolitical players and individual states are not able to do anything to prevent destruction or failure on purpose of that infrastructure.
Reports on the topic "Infrastructure"
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Langlais, Pierre-Carl. Open Science Infrastructure. Comité pour la science ouverte, 2023. https://doi.org/10.52949/75.
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Open Science infrastructure plays a fundamental role in research. Large ecosystems of interconnected scholarly infrastructures have emerged in Europe, South and North America since 2000, through the development of new open science projects and the conversion of legacy infrastructures to open science principles. In 2021 the Unesco described Open Infrastructures as “shared research infrastructures that are needed to support open science and serve the needs of different communities” and acknowledged them as one of the four pillars of Open Science. The landscape of open infrastructure is significantly decentralized. While a few very large actors exist, most infrastructures have a small size and rely on limited costs (less than €50,000 per year). While diverse, the ecosystem is still highly integrated: most infrastructures belong to a wider ecosystem of scholarly commons, with privileged interaction through free services (ORCID, Datacite), free software (OJS) or open knowledge projects (Wikidata). Open science infrastructure became technically feasible after the creation of the World Wide Web. While scientific computing infrastructures have been developed since the 1960s, they were generally inaccessible to their end users. Electronic diffusion of articles, databases and other scientific outputs quickly developed after 1990, which stirred increasing concerns on the sustainability of online research projects. After this initial period of rapid and uncontrolled expansion, the 2000s saw a movement of consolidation, as large projects were able to secure recurrent fundings. Numerous initiatives have been taken after 2015 to better define, support and protect open science infrastructures, as large commercial publishers have begun acquiring critical common infrastructures such as open repositories. The Principles for Open Scholarly Infrastructure laid influential recommendations on sustainability, collaborative governance and the funding of open infrastructures, based on the theory of common-resource management of Elinor Ostrom. They have influenced in turn major reports, policies and initiatives. By 2022, major historical scientific infrastructures have endorsed open science as an integral part of their activity and identity. It has become an essential topic of debate for the future of research along with the conversion of the publishing system: in 2021, a collective of researchers called for a Plan I or Plan Infrastructure in reaction to the plan S of the cOAlition S.
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Myers, Natalie, Michelle Swearingen, and James Miller. Deployment infrastructure. Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (U.S.), February 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.21079/11681/26421.
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Mueller, Sven-Uwe, Fan Li, Zhang Xiang, Shang Shengping, and Zhang Tianyi. Sustainable Infrastructure: New Chapter for China-LAC Infrastructure Cooperation. Inter-American Development Bank, December 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0000561.
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Xiang, Zhang, Fan Li, Shang Shengping, Sven-Uwe Mueller, and Zhang Tianyi. Sustainable Infrastructure: New Chapter for China-LAC Infrastructure Cooperation. Inter-American Development Bank, December 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0009319.
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In recent years, a growing emphasis has been given to the impact of infrastructure on economy, society and environment as well as to the sustainability of infrastructure projects. The Inter-American Development Bank, a major driver of infrastructure development in Latin America, has partnered with the China International Contractors Association (CHINCA) to advocate for sustainable development as a strategy to boost the comprehensive competitiveness of its members. With a shared vision to promote sustainable infrastructure, CHINCA and IDB will intensify collaboration and offer an impetus and guidance for Chinese contractors to invest in and undertake sustainable infrastructure projects in Latin America and the Caribbean.
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Gallego-Lopez, Catalina, and Jonathan Essex. Introducing Infrastructure Resilience. Evidence on Demand, September 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.12774/eod_tg.july2016.gallegolopezessex1.
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Tomko, John S., and Jr. Critical Infrastructure Protection. Fort Belvoir, VA: Defense Technical Information Center, April 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.21236/ada401004.
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Moriarty, K., and J. Yanowitz. E15 and Infrastructure. Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), May 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.2172/1215238.
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Cunningham, Robert T. Trinity Storage Infrastructure. Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), July 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.2172/1291254.
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Lind, S., and P. Pfautz. Infrastructure ENUM Requirements. RFC Editor, November 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.17487/rfc5067.
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Schembri, Phillip Edward. Material Model Infrastructure. Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), August 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.2172/1467253.
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