Definition(s)
Infrastructure refers to the basic network of capital facilities or community investments which are necessary to serving a country, city, or area, including services and facilities necessary for its economy to function. It typically characterizes technical structures such as roads, bridges, tunnels, water supply, sewers, electrical grids, telecommunications et. al (...), essential to enable, sustain, or enhance societal living conditions. (Source: GEMET/Wikipedia), and as such can be an (adverse) anthropogenic impact on the environment.
Hierarchy
Narrower: green infrastructure
In other languages
French
infrastructure
Russian
инфраструктура
Spanish
infraestructuras
Chinese, Simplified
公共建设
Arabic
البنية الأساسية - البنية التحتية
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Multilateral environment agreements tagged with infrastructure
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Basel Convention | 1 decision41 documents |
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Stockholm Convention | 24 documents |
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Rotterdam Convention | 5 documents |
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Agreement on the Conservation of Populations of European Bats (EUROBATS) | 1 document |
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Framework Convention on the Protection and Sustainable Development of the Carpathians | 1 decision |
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United Nations Environment Assembly | 1 decision |





