A Social-Ecological Infrastructural Systems (SEIS) Framework for Inter-Disciplinary Study of Sustainable City-Systems: An Integrative Curriculum Across Seven Major Disciplines

Author(s)
Anu Ramaswami
Christopher Weible
Deborah Main
Tanya Heikkila
Saba Siddiki
Andrew Duvall
Andrew Pattison
Meghan Bernard
Parent Collection
Sustainability
DOI
https://doi.org/10.18130/t59w-cd64
Rights
Use of Materials on the OEC
Discipline(s)
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Engineering
Environmental Engineering
Environmental Health
Industrial Engineering
Life and Environmental Sciences
Public Health
Public Policy and Public Administration
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Systems Engineering
Urban Studies and Planning
Topics
Sustainability
Published Work
Description

Cities are embedded within larger-scale engineered infrastructures (e.g., electric power, water supply, and transportation networks) that convey natural resources over large distances for use by people living there. Their sustainability therefore depends upon complex, cross-scale interactions between the natural system, the transboundary engineered infrastructures, and the multiple social actors and institutions that govern these infrastructures. These elements are best studied in an integrated manner using a novel social-ecological-infrastructural systems (SEIS) framework.

ExternalURL
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1530-9290.2012.00566.x/abstract
Citation
Anu Ramaswami, Christopher Weible, Deborah Main, Tanya Heikkila, Saba Siddiki, Andrew Duvall, Andrew Pattison, Meghan Bernard. . A Social-Ecological Infrastructural Systems (SEIS) Framework for Inter-Disciplinary Study of Sustainable City-Systems: An Integrative Curriculum Across Seven Major Disciplines. Online Ethics Center. DOI:https://doi.org/10.18130/t59w-cd64. https://onlineethics.org/cases/sustainability/social-ecological-infrastructural-systems-seis-framework-inter-disciplinary.