Sustainable Infrastructure

Asset Management

• USEPA Asset Management for Water and Wastewater Utilities

Biodiversity

• A roadmap to biodiversity net gain under the Environment Bill - Lexology

• All About Biodiversity Net Gain: A Question and Answer Session

• Biodiversity net gain: updating planning requirements - GOV.UK

• BNG - What's it all about? - TEP - The Environment PartnershipTEP – The Environment Partnership

• Case Studies — USAID Biodiversity Integration Case Study Competition

• Measure What You Treasure - Biodiversity Net Gain Measurement and Enforcement - Lexology

• New draft British Standard for Biodiversity Net Gain

• Setting a standard for biodiversity net gain for development - BSG Ecology

• The Biodiversity Metric 2.0 - JP029

• The big question: What are the greatest barriers to biodiversity net gain working in practice? | Transform

• WSP Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG)

• z-biodiversity-net-gain | WSP

Biodiversity Standard

• BSI Committee

• BSI Project

• New Standard on BNG

Blue

• ENABLE – improving green and blue infrastructure in cities | IUCN

Blue-Green

• Blue/green infrastructure design - Ramboll Group

• Designing green and blue infrastructure to support healthy urban living - Adaptive Circular Cities

Cities

• Freiburg Green City http://wwf.panda.org/?204419/Freiburg-green-city

• Freiburg Germany Sustainability Center https://www.leistungszentrum-nachhaltigkeit.de/en/

• Freiburg Germany Sustainability Process https://www.freiburg.de/pb/,Len/644009.html

• London

• Lyons CO

• Lyon FR - Challenge

• National League of Cities Sustainable Cities Institute

• New York

• NSF A river runs through it: U.S. cities' waterways show consistent patterns of evolution

• OECD Compact Cities

• San Francisco Treasure Island

• WWF Cities Urban Solutions for a Living Planet

• WWF Sustainable Cities

Countries

• Japan https://www.japan.go.jp/infrastructure/

Finance

• Asian Development Bank Sustainable Infrastructure

• Chatham House The Role of Investors in Promoting Sustainable Infrastructure under the Belt and Road Initiative https://www.chathamhouse.org/publication/role-investors-promoting-sustainable-infrastructure-under-belt-and-road-initiative

• Path to Sustainable Infrastructure 100 Top Funds https://www.top1000funds.com/featured-homepage-posts/2017/06/02/path-to-sustainable-infrastructure/

• Peter Boswell Com Industry Survey http://www.peterboswell.net/blog/sustainability-survey/

Economics

• Royal Academy of Engineering Engineering and Global Economic Growth https://www.raeng.org.uk/policy/partnerships/international-policy-and-development/gcrf-international-development/engineering-a-better-world-caets-2016/economic-research See especially Chapter 5

General

• Attributes and Framework for Sustainable Infrastructure

• China leadership on Sustainable Infrastructure

• Economist Intelligence Unit The Critical Role of Infrastructure for the Sustainable Development Goals https://unops.economist.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/ThecriticalroleofinfrastructurefortheSustainableDevelopmentGoals.pdf

• The Solutions Lab – Scaling for Sustainable Infrastructure – EMSD

• EMSD Sustainable Infrastructure

• FIDIC Summary Sustainable Infrastructure: rating and certification, decision-support, calculators and guidelines http://fidic.org/other-resources/sustainability/sustainable-infrastructure

• G20 Insites - Toward a Global Policy Climate, infrastructure, finance

• Global Infrastructure Hub Quality Investment Casebook https://www.gihub.org/resources/publications/quality-infrastructure-investment-casebook/

• Green Metropolis https://placesjournal.org/article/green-metropolis/

• IISD Policy Brief How can Progress on SDG 9 Contribute to Achieving the SDGs

• Infrastructure 2030

• Infrastructure Services Post = 2015

• Norton Rose Fulbright What is Sustainable Infrastructure see graphic

• Pro-poor urbanization, sustainable infrastructure can unlock Asia-Pacific's prosperity – UN

• Sustainable Infrastructure Canada

• Sustainable Infrastructure Foundation

• Sustainable infrastructure for Asia and the Pacific: the new normal

• Thacker et al Infrastructure for Sustainable Development http://www.greengrowthknowledge.org/sites/default/files/downloads/resource/Thackeretal_NS_2019.pdf

• The Resilience Shift https://www.resilienceshift.org/securing-our-future-through-resilient-infrastructure/

Governance

• Regional Roundtables on Infrastructure Governance program https://pppknowledgelab.org/infragovernance

Green

• Green vs. Gray Infrastructure: When Nature Is Better than Concrete | World Resources Institute

• More Than Stormwater: How Green Infrastructure Offers Multiple Benefits for Los Angeles Communities | RAND https://www.rand.org/blog/2020/01/more-than-stormwater-how-green-infrastructure-offers.html

• Putting Nature to Work: Integrating Green and Gray Infrastructure for Water Security and Climate Resilience

Green-Gray

• Green Infrastructure Versus Grey Infrastructure

• Grey Infrastructure

History

• ASCE Report Card History https://www.infrastructurereportcard.org/making-the-grade/report-card-history/

• Fragile Foundations: A report on America's Public Works https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=pur1.32754061292805;view=1up;seq=1

• NAE Towards Sustainable Critical Infrastructure Systems: Framing the Challenges Workshop April 2019 https://www.nae.edu/104533/Toward-Sustainable-Critical-Infrastructure-Systems-Framing-the-Challenges-Workshop

• NAP 1988 Cities and their Vital Systems https://www.nap.edu/catalog/1093/cities-and-their-vital-systems-infrastructure-past-present-and-future Highly recommended report that can be downloaded for free as pdf

Management

• Veolia https://www.veolia.com/en

Nature-Based

• Biodiversity provides cost-effective natural infrastructure https://www.cbd.int/article/biodiversityforcities

• Building the Investment Case for Nature-Based Infrastructure | International Institute for Sustainable Development https://www.iisd.org/articles/investment-case-for-nature-based-infrastructure

• FHA Nature-based Resilience for Coastal Highways https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/environment/sustainability/resilience/ongoing_and_current_research/green_infrastructure/

• Flooding, climate change, and the need for nature-based solutions | Water, Land and Ecosystems https://wle.cgiar.org/thrive/2016/01/18/flooding-climate-change-and-need-nature-based-solutions

• GEF https://www.iisd.org/articles/new-initiative-supports-nature-based-infrastructure-climate-adaptation

• Global Green-Gray Community of Practice https://www.conservation.org/projects/global-green-gray-community-of-practice

• Green Infrastructure Archives - ICEM https://icem.com.au/portfolio_category/green-infrastructure-issue/

• How Can Urban Flood Management in Vietnam Become More Sustainable? | Urbanet https://www.urbanet.info/sustainable-urban-flood-management-in-vietnam/

• Increasing Infrastructure Resilience with Nature-Based Solutions (NbS) https://publications.iadb.org/en/increasing infrastructure-resilience-with-nature-based-solutions-nbs

• IUCN https://www.iucn.org/theme/nature-based-solutions

• Nature-based development is a sustainable pathway for Việt Nam | UNDP in Viet Nam https://www.vn.undp.org/content/vietnam/en/home/blog/nature-based-development-is-a-sustainable-pathway-for-vit-nam.html

• Nature-based solutions for our towns and cities | PreventionWeb.net https://www.preventionweb.net/news/view/76760

• Nature-based Solutions: An Opportunity to Rethink Development Pathway in Bangladesh | International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD) http://www.icccad.net/blog/nbs-opportunity-to-rethink-development-pathway-in-bangladesh/

• Nature-based Solutions – Bangladesh Portal | Collating scientific evidence and evidence from practice on the effectiveness of existing nature-based solutions projects from across Bangladesh http://www.nbsbangladesh.info/

• NCHRP Applying Climate Change Information to Hydrologic and Hydraulic Design of Transportation Infrastructure https://apps.trb.org/cmsfeed/TRBNetProjectDisplay.asp?ProjectID=4046

• Oxford University Nature-based solutions initiative

• Proposing a typology of nature-based solutions for strengthening resilience of Central Vietnamese cities - First findings from the GreenCityLabHue project - NASA/ADS https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020EGUGA..2210107S/abstract

• Publication on nature-based solutions in Viet Nam launched in ADB HQ https://www.livablecities.info/nature-based-solution

• Shifting adaptation towards nature-based solutions | Dhaka Tribune https://www.dhakatribune.com/climate-change/2020/02/16/shifting-adaptation-towards-nature-based-solutions

• The Integration of Nature-Based Solutions into Climate Adaptation Policy and Planning in Bangladesh - The Journal of Science Policy & Governance https://www.sciencepolicyjournal.org/article_1038126_jspg180204.html

• Understanding the value and limits of nature-based solutions to climate change and other global challenges | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstb.2019.0120

• UNEP Nature-based solutions https://www.unep.org/explore-topics/disasters-conflicts/what-we-do/nature-based-solutions

• UNDP Brief on Nature-based climate solutions

Planning

• ACE Planning Community Toolbox: Tools https://planning.erdc.dren.mil/toolbox/tools.cfm?Id=137&Option=Templates%20and%20Checklists

• ADB Principles of Infrastructure: Case Studies and Best Practices https://www.adb.org/publications/principles-infrastructure-case-studies-best-practices

• APA Principles for New Federal Infrastructure Investment Policy https://www.planning.org/policy/principles/infrastructure/

• Australia Infrastructure Decision-Making Principles https://www.infrastructureaustralia.gov.au/sites/default/files/2019-06/Infrastructure_Decision-Making_Principles.pdf

• EMSD Project Preparation https://emsdialogues.org/sustainable-infrastructure-project-preparation

• FHWA Planning https://flh.fhwa.dot.gov/resources/design/plans/wfl/sample/

• InfraCompass Planning https://infracompass.gihub.org/drivers/planning/

• Infrastructure Canada https://www.infrastructure.gc.ca/plan/about-invest-apropos-eng.html

• NGA Principles for National Infrastructure Investment https://www.nga.org/policy-communications/policy-positions/principles-for-national-infrastructure-investment/

• OECD FOUR GUIDING PRINCIPLES FOR USING INFRASTRUCTURE TO REDUCE POVERTY

• OECD The OECD Framework for the Governance of Infrastructure https://www.oecd.org/gov/getting-infrastructure-right.pdf

• Planning Sustainable Infrastructure Projects with ISI Envision | Black & Veatch

Report Cards

• Global Infrastructure Outlook - 2017 https://www.oxfordeconomics.com/recent-releases/99f4fa86-a314-4762-97c6-fac8bdcbe40a

• Hazardous Waste Infrastructure | ASCE's 2021 Infrastructure Report Card https://infrastructurereportcard.org/cat-item/hazardous-waste/

• History of American Infrastructure | ASCE's 2021 Infrastructure Report Card https://infrastructurereportcard.org/making-the-grade/report-card-history/

• Infrastructure for climate action | UNOPS https://www.unops.org/news-and-stories/news/infrastructure-for-climate-action

• Methodology - Development of the Report Card Grades | 2009 Report Card for America's Infrastructure https://www.infrastructurereportcard.org/2009/methodology-development-report-card-grades.html

• New Oxford University-UNOPS report stresses infrastructure as… | UNOPS https://www.unops.org/news-and-stories/news/new-oxford-university-unops-report-stresses-infrastructure-as-key-to-unlocking-sustainable-development-goals

• Solid Waste Infrastructure | ASCE's 2021 Infrastructure Report Card https://infrastructurereportcard.org/cat-item/solid-waste/

• Sustainable Development Report 2021 https://dashboards.sdgindex.org/

• Sustainable Development Report 2021 https://dashboards.sdgindex.org/rankings

• WFEO http://www.wfeo.org/working-group-infrastructure-report-card/

Transportation

• Federal Highway Administration | Sustainable Highways Initiative | Report: Advancing a Sustainable Highway System - Highlights of FHWA Sustainability Activities

UN

• Interagency Statement On Sustainable Infrastructure: How can integrated approaches help deliver the 2030 Agenda? http://www.greengrowthknowledge.org/sites/default/files/downloads/resource/Interagency%20Statement%20On%20Sustainable%20Infrastructure_UN%20Environment.pdf

• Sustainable Infrastructure Partnership https://www.greengrowthknowledge.org/coalition/sustainable-infrastructure-partnership

• UN Agencies Biodiversity and Sustainable Infrastructure http://www.greengrowthknowledge.org/resource/mainstreaming-biodiversity-infrastructure-sector-fostering-system-level-approaches

• UN Agencies Call for Integrated Approaches to Infrastructure Development | News | SDG Knowledge Hub https://sdg.iisd.org/news/un-agencies-call-for-integrated-approaches-to-infrastructure-development/

• UNEA Mainstreaming Biodiversity in the Infrastructure Sector https://www.cbd.int/doc/c/9206/bf63/6ca9e1f8a8f3ee712f423c4c/cop-14-hls-04-en.pdf

• UNEMG Sustainable Infrastructure for the SDGs https://unemg.org/sustainable-infrastructure-for-the-sdgs/

• UNOPS Infrastructure Underpinning Sustainable Development https://content.unops.org/publications/Infrastructure_underpining_sustainable_development_EN.pdf?mtime=20181220182223

UNEP

• GEO for Business | UNEP - UN Environment Programme

• UNEP Resolution on Sustainable Infrastructure https://papersmart.unon.org/resolution/uploads/k1900873_0.pdf

• UNEP Sustainable Infrastructure Partnership http://www.unenvironment.org/explore-topics/green-economy/what-we-do/economic-and-fiscal-policy/sustainable-infrastructure