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da Rocha, C G and Kemmer, S (2018) Integrating product and process design in construction. Construction Management and Economics, 36(09), 535–43.

Kaminsky, J and Faust, K (2018) Infrastructure epistemologies: water, wastewater and displaced persons in Germany. Construction Management and Economics, 36(09), 521–34.

  • Type: Journal Article
  • Keywords: Resiliency; population dynamics; water and wastewater infrastructure; disaster migration;
  • ISBN/ISSN: 0144-6193
  • URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/01446193.2018.1462499
  • Abstract:
    Recent years have seen historically unprecedented global disaster migration; in 2016 Germany received 1.3 million displaced individuals. Regardless of past resources and future potential, disaster migrants are a new, vulnerable population. This new population increases demand for water and wastewater infrastructure services, despite being temporarily unable to pay for services. As such, this kind of sudden population increase is a resiliency challenge for the receiving infrastructure systems. Qualitative analysis of 1,884 open-ended survey responses was blended with a statistical analysis to discover how and why the German public perceives water and sanitation services have been provided to the disaster migrants. Unprompted, 36% (112/314) of respondents referenced at least one of three infrastructure epistemologies, including water and wastewater as a service, as a basic need, and as a human right. These epistemologies share statistically significant relationships with how long respondents feel water and wastewater should be provided to displaced persons. A temporally limited, normative perception of water and sanitation as a humanitarian good functions to enable water and wastewater infrastructure to deliver a high level of service despite the significant disruption of the large and vulnerable population influx, and has practical implications for the structure of cost recovery.

Noorizadeh, A, Rashidi, K and Peltokorpi, A (2018) Categorizing suppliers for development investments in construction: application of DEA and RFM concept. Construction Management and Economics, 36(09), 487–506.

Sacilotto, J and Loosemore, M (2018) Chinese investment in the Australian construction industry: the social amplification of risk. Construction Management and Economics, 36(09), 507–20.