by Vance Tan | Nov 7, 2018 | Energy, Urban water
Abstract Urban water management represents a core economic sector exposed to global water-related challenges. Recently, small modular system configurations have been identified to enable a potential sustainability transition in this lasting and rather conservative...
by Vance Tan | Nov 7, 2018 | Infrastructure systems
Abstract National infrastructure systems spanning energy, transport, digital, waste, and water are well recognised as complex and interdependent. While some policy makers have been keen to adopt the narrative of complexity, the application of complexity-based methods...
by Vance Tan | Nov 2, 2018 | News
This week the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Philip Hammond, wrote to the National Infrastructure Commission, formally requesting the NIC to conduct a study on infrastructure resilience with DAFNI. In the terms of reference for this study, the Chancellor wrote:...
by Vance Tan | Oct 26, 2018 | Collaborations, Infrastructure systems
A new Oxford University-UNOPS report stresses infrastructure as key to unlocking Sustainable Development Goals. A new report published by the University of Oxford-led Infrastructure Transition Research Consortium (ITRC) and UNOPS, has found that efficient...
by Vance Tan | Oct 2, 2018 | Infrastructure systems
Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. Over the past four decades, the concept of sustainable development has become an increasingly central theme of...
