This paper provides an account of the development of the web-based Okavango Collections (OC) metadata catalogue. In light of climate change, growing population, and developmental pressures on the transboundary CubangoOkavango river basin, there is an urgent need to ensure timely access to reliable environmental data and information for environmental decision-making. Commissioned by the Permanen...

MDA has been around for more than three years already. Nevertheless, besides the lack of a standard model transformation language to support the MDA vision, there is even a lack of tool support to implement the platform-specific mappings promoted by the same MDA. For quite some years now, tool vendors offer the possibility to generate code for different programming languages, but the spectrum o...

Critical infrastructures are complex societal systems. For that reason, risk criteria for critical infrastructures are also “part” of the risk criteria for complex societal systems. The questions to be resolved are 1. are the societal risk criteria of complex systems defined and quantifiable 2. is known how the risk criteria of critical infrastructures relate to the risk criteria of the complex...

Land available for energy production is limited in cities owing to high population density. To reach the net zero goal, contributing 70% of overall greenhouse gas emissions need dramatically reduce and increase self-sufficiency production. Environmental infrastructures such as sewage treatment incineration plants can be used facilities cities. This study attempted examine effect using environme...

This article aims to analyze research trends on the role played by green infrastructures as a tool seeking address current environmental challenges, such climate change, that put human well-being at risk. For this purpose, bibliometric analysis was used documents obtained from WoS database, and selecting combination of words “green infrastructures”, “ecosystem services”, “climate change”. The r...

PROBLEM The lack of proper water and sanitation infrastructures and poor hygiene practices in health-care facilities reduces facilities' preparedness and response to disease outbreaks and decreases the communities' trust in the health services provided. APPROACH To improve water and sanitation infrastructures and hygiene practices, the Liberian health ministry held multistakeholder meetings t...

When researchers analyze data, it typically requires significant effort in data preparation to make the analysis ready. This often involves cleaning, pre-processing, harmonizing, or integrating from one multiple sources and placing them into a computational environment form suitable for analysis. Research infrastructures their repositories host available researchers, but rarely offer Published ...

The quality of life of our modern society depends on several infrastructures that provide vital services such as water supply, electric energy supply, natural gas supply, food chain distribution, oil distribution, communications and others. During last decades the former infrastructures have significantly increased their complexity to allow for wider, better quality and continuous provision of ...