TY  - JOUR
AV  - public
JF  - Frontiers in Built Environment
N2  - All aspects of Modern life are infrastructure-enabled. National infrastructure (NI) simultaneously: supports the realisation of societally beneficial outcomes; and determines the level of GHG emissions; air, water, noise pollution; production of solid waste and sewage. Therefore, all sustainability and resilience challenges are interdependent emergent properties arising directly or indirectly from National Infrastructure. NI is a systemically, societally, economically, globally significant leverage point. The systemic transformation of NI into a net zero enabling, resilience enhancing, sustainability supporting system is urgently needed to catalyse the speed, scale and breadth of synergistic action needed to achieve Net zero and tackle other sustainability and resilience challenges. Systemic perspectives on, and systemic characterisations of, NI; its societal purpose; and the interdependent mechanisms that enable NI to fulfil its purpose are needed to support the required systemic transformation. This paper provides these.
UR  - https://doi.org/10.3389/fbuil.2021.752765
VL  - 7
A1  - Dolan, T
ID  - discovery10136095
KW  - conceptual framework
KW  -  Emergen
KW  -  governance
KW  -  outcomes
KW  -  global warming
KW  -  interdependent
KW  -  synerg
KW  -  transformation
N1  - © 2021 Dolan. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY).
Y1  - 2021/11/15/
TI  - Systemic Perspectives on National Infrastructure for a Sustainable, Resilient Net Zero Future
ER  -