Infrastructure
A collective term for structures and facilities that allow people to work, travel, and live in comfort.
What is infrastructure?
The philosophy that human systems should not deplete the earth's resources or exert harm on others.
What is sustainability?
More than half of the world's population live in this areas.
What are urban areas?
What are carbon dioxide emissions?
The rating that ASCE most recently gave the US infrastructure.
What is a C-?
What are economic, social, and environmental sustainability?
Low-density, low-cost development on the edges of urban areas.
What is sprawl?
What is False?
A list of principles describing goals for a sustainable future.
What are the Hannover principles?
The ranking of US infrastructure in the World Economic Forum's Global Competitiveness Index
What is thirteenth?
An analysis that considers the manufacture, shipping, installation, use, and disposal of a product or structure.
What is a life cycle cost analysis?
The standard of living in urban areas relative to rural areas.
What is higher?
The term for a strategic response that reduces the severity of climate change.
The term for the growing connections between nations enabled by technological innovation.
What is Globalization?
The nation with the highest infrastructure rating in the Global Competitiveness Index
Singapore
When the benefits of a project go to one group while the costs are borne by a different group.
An urban sustainability problem created by cars that electric vehicles do not fix.
What is [crashes, congestion, air pollution, noise, parking needs, and basically everything except carbon emissions]?
The term for a strategic response that reduces the impact of climate change.
What is an adaptation strategy?
What is Creation?