Infrastructure ecology: an evolving paradigm for sustainable urban development

Journal of Cleaner Production

Volumn 163, Issue , 2017, Pages S19-S27

  Pandit, Arka ^a,b   Minné, Elizabeth A ^a,b   Li, Feng ^e   Brown, Hillary ^d   Jeong, Hyunju ^a,b   James, Jean Ann C ^a,b   Newell, Joshua P ^c   Weissburg, Marc ^a   Chang, Michael E ^a   Xu, Ming ^c   Yang, Perry ^a   Wang, Rusong ^e   Thomas, Valerie M ^a,b   Yu, Xuewei ^a,b   Lu, Zhongming ^a,b   Crittenden, John C ^a,b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^e RESEARCH CENTER FOR ECO ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Complex adaptive systems; Infrastructural symbiosis; Infrastructure ecology; Integrated urban infrastructure systems; Sustainable urban infrastructure systems

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; URBAN GROWTH;

ADAPTIVE COMPONENTS; COMPLEX ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY; INFRASTRUCTURAL SYMBIOSIS; SUSTAINABLE URBAN DEVELOPMENT; SYSTEM LEVEL OPTIMIZATION; URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE; URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEM;

INVESTMENTS;

EID: 84947596107     PISSN: 09596526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2015.09.010     Document Type: Article

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