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Editorial – The raison d’être of “Infrastructure & Development”
Editorial – The raison d’être of “Infrastructure & Development”
My constant interest in the topic of infrastructure and development took a special turn after I returned from the Philippines to Europe in…
Jerome Cachau
Mar 11, 2021
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The road ahead: five infrastructure themes for the next decades
The road ahead: five infrastructure themes for the next decades
The strategy of participants in the infrastructure market tends to be quite opportunistic in comparison to other sectors. Infrastructure, a…
Jerome Cachau
Nov 10, 2021
Spirits in our material world
Spirits in our material world
Recently, a friend and I were discussing what we grandiosely called “secular trends” in our field of infrastructure. The topic I picked was…
Jerome Cachau
Jun 29, 2021
Materials — part 1: the world in 2050: probably rich, certainly crowded and likely hungry for…
Materials — part 1: the world in 2050: probably rich, certainly crowded and likely hungry for…
We cannot start a discussion on sustainability (in the present case, with respect to material consumption) without looking at the forecast…
Jerome Cachau
Jun 29, 2021
Materials — part 2: material resources and the curse of prosperity
Materials — part 2: material resources and the curse of prosperity
After having discussed -qualitatively- the potential decoupling between resource consumption and economic growth, we might want to…
Jerome Cachau
Jun 29, 2021
Materials — part 3: waste management or the implacability of conservation laws
Materials — part 3: waste management or the implacability of conservation laws
Antoine Lavoisier, the great French chemist whose head was so full of new ideas that the Révolutionnaires had to chop it off, once came up…
Jerome Cachau
Jun 29, 2021
Airports: sic transit gloria mundi?
Airports: sic transit gloria mundi?
Sic transit gloria mundi. Thus passes worldly glory. A moralistic aphorism once used to remind catholic popes of the job’s precariousness…
Jerome Cachau
Apr 2, 2021
Airports — part 3: the new pariah?
Airports — part 3: the new pariah?
My previous article referred to a recent report issued by a collective of French aeronautical engineers, pleading for a containment -or…
Jerome Cachau
Apr 2, 2021
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