Infrastructure investment must incorporate Nature’s lessons in a rapidly changing world

Authors :: Ariana E. Sutton-Grier
Emily Corwin
Jens Figlus
Mike Donahue
Elizabeth Losos
Lydia Olander
Michael W. Beck
Borja G. Reguero
Hans Pietersen
Don McNeill
Nigel Pontee
Donald R. Nelson
Brian P. Bledsoe
Rachel K. Gittman
Todd Guidry
Siddharth Narayan
Brian R. Silliman
Robert Costanza
Rusty A. Feagin
Todd S. Bridges
Q. Lodder
Carter S. Smith
Susana Ferreira
Rowan Palmer
Source :: One Earth. 4:1361-1364
Publication Year :: 2021
Publisher :: Elsevier BV, 2021.
Abstract: Summary Infrastructure must become more resilient as the global climate changes and also more affordable in the economic and political context of a post-COVID world. We can solve this dual challenge and drive global infrastructure investment into a more sustainable direction by taking our cues from Nature.

Subjects :: 2019-20 coronavirus outbreak
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
Global climate
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)
Context (language use)
010501 environmental sciences
Investment (macroeconomics)
01 natural sciences
Dual (category theory)
Politics
13. Climate action
11. Sustainability
Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous)
Business
Economic system
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
General Environmental Science

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