This article uses some simple conceptual models to derive implications of infrastructure investments with long lifetimes for future greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Such investments, related both to energy supply and demand, may commit societies to high and persistent levels of GHG emissions that...

The environment of infrastructure location decision-making is in a flux: new thinking, ideologies, social and environmental awareness coupled with political expediencies and economic imperatives are constantly changing the weights of factors considered in location decision making. As expected,...