What are digital Infrastructures?

Digital Infrastructures: Enabling Civil and Environmental Systems through Information Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 3-18

  Zimmerman, Rae ^a   Horan, Thomas ^b,c  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CLAREMONT GRADUATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Claremont Information and Technology Institute (CITI)   (United States)

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EID: 84905485548     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203357125     Document Type: Chapter

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