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Infrastructures handle high-volume goods and services that require heavily capitalized, large-scale, durable, reliable, shared, interdependent, and specialized systems. Infrastructure facilitates social, economic, and environmental functions by achieving a high degree of efficiency at a low marginal cost to produce, transport, distribute, quality-control, and allocate high-volume goods and services. Infrastructure development usually requires large, long-term investments and substantial consideration of risk, change, and extreme events during the design phase. This chapter explains the basic structures that form infrastructure for FEW systems and provides useful diagrams of FEW supply chains that utilize those infrastructures.
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Ruddell, B.L., Gao, H., Pala, O., Rushforth, R., Sabo, J. (2020). Infrastructure. In: Saundry, P., Ruddell, B. (eds) The Food-Energy-Water Nexus. AESS Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies and Sciences Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29914-9_10
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