Operative Water Infrastructure as Shared Value: A Proposal to Reshape a Microeconomic Landscape

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.201009.020How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Social Impact, operative infrastructure, urban ecology, social equality, microeconomic landscape, shared value

Abstract

According to the World Bank, countries need to invest 4,5% of their GDP in infrastructure to reach the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) in 2030. This requires us to build new infrastructure and transform the existing one. We must assess how we can transform the existing infrastructure from a solely functional perspective towards a social and ecological tool to improve people’s quality of life [1]. In this paper, I assess the existing infrastructure of metropolitan drinking water networks and how it can be transformed to improve the quality of life of the population in any city. The massive extension and ubiquity of the drinking water network sites can be renewed beyond its functional operation, considering social, economic and ecological opportunities. This assessment is aligned with contemporary theories about the role landscape, operative infrastructure, and technology play for equity in urban living.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Eugenio Simonetti Toro
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/10/10
TI  - Operative Water Infrastructure as Shared Value: A Proposal to Reshape a Microeconomic Landscape
BT  - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Dwelling Form (IDWELL 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 190
EP  - 199
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.201009.020
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.201009.020
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