Human Activity Infrastructure Services

The human activity infrastructure services provide services that enable each of the human activity systems to carry out their purpose. These infrastructure services form a life support system for human activity on the Earth. All of the infrastructure areas address production to consumption.

Human Activity Infrastructure Services (HAIS) Essential Services

The human activity infrastructure services fall into three types of services. The following references are used to identify the human activity infrastructure services:

Infrastructure services references (more to be added):

Basic Human Need Services

Food Infrastructure Service (CCC, DD, FNI, UBS)

The Food Infrastructure Service covers the entire value system from production to consumption. This infrastructure service also has dependencies on energy, transportation, water and waste. The infrastructure service covers the following:

  • Safe and secure food and agriculture production and consumption.

  • Local vs global supply chain (including transportation)

  • Production methods: organic, factory, permaculture, horticulture, Agroecology / Agroecological Farming

  • must also address:

    • packaging (e.g. single use plastic packing, reusable packaging, transportation packaging)

    • storage (refrigeration)

    • Ecosystem impacts (loss of soil, pollinators, runoff into water, etc)

Primary SDG Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture

Primary SDG Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts*

Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agricultureGoal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for allGoal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovationGoal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patternsGoal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts*Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable developmentGoal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss

Water and Sanitation Infrastructure Service (FNI)

The purpose of the Water and Sanitation Infrastructure Service is to provide the following services:

  • Clean water (production to consumption)

  • Drinking, cooking cleaning, and other household uses

  • Sanitation (removal of waste and used water)

  • River water quality (runoff from city regions)

  • Use of water for irrigation / food production and energy.

  • Storm and Flood Water Management

Primary SDG Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all

Primary SDG Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts*

Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agricultureGoal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for allGoal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for allGoal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovationGoal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts*

Built Environment Infrastructure Service (CCC, DD, UBS)

The purpose of the Built Environment Infrastructure Service is to identify the systems that contribute to the production to consumption value system for the built environment.

The scope of this infrastructure service includes: Buildings: Office space, Production facilities, housing, infrastructure technology, etc. This infrastructure service covers the following:

  • The needs of all other infrastructure services, including:

    • Transportation Infrastructure Service

    • Food Infrastructure Service

    • Water and Sanitation Infrastructure Service

    • Energy Infrastructure Service

    • Waste Infrastructure Service

    • All other HAIS and HAS Systems where needed.

  • Construction, maintenance and disposal services

  • Energy efficiency

  • Building supplies: steel, concrete, lumber, etc

  • Reuse / recycle strategies (circular economy).

  • Resilience (able to withstand environmental shocks).

  • Possibly includes contents of buildings / shelter.

Primary SDG Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation

Primary SDG Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts*

Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for allGoal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovationGoal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainableGoal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patternsGoal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts*

Economic Support Services

Energy Infrastructure Service (CCC, DD, FNI)

The purpose of the Energy Infrastructure Service is to show the full value system from energy production to consumption.

The operational energy system (SoS) is a human activity infrastructure service that is established:

  • To supply energy to consumers
  • To manage finite consumable resources in a sustainable way
  • To recover from disruptive natural or human created events (resilience)
  • To ensure that the Earth is able to sustain human and other life on Earth.

The scope of this infrastructure service also includes:

  • Multi-vector energy sources (renewable, oil, gas, hydrogen, electricity, geothermal).

  • Also includes community heating and power

  • Cooling

Primary SDG Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all

Primary SDG Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts*

Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agricultureGoal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all agesGoal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for allGoal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for allGoal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovationGoal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patternsGoal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts*Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable developmentGoal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss

Transportation Infrastructure Service (CCC, DD, FNI, UBS)

The purpose of the Transportation Infrastructure Service provides a service to move things from A to B, (an alternative name may be Mobility (mostly for people)

The scope of the transportation sector includes the following types: Rail, Road, Aviation, Shipping, Bicycles, Walking, Pipes, Cables, Aerospace, under water, etc

The services include:

  • Vehicles and power source (hydrogen, electric, fossil fuel, aviation fuel, wind)

  • Load and unload (stations, docks, airports, etc)

  • Maintenance (repair, supply, etc.)

Primary SDG Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation

Primary SDG Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts*

Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agricultureGoal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for allGoal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovationGoal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainableGoal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patternsGoal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts*Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development

Waste Infrastructure Service (CCC, FNI)

The purpose of the Waste Infrastructure Service is to collect and recycle waste. The scope of this infrastructure service is as follows:

  • GHG (including F-Gasses, CO2, Methane)

  • Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) including skins (land, coastal, ocean and engineered)

  • Waste removal and disposal

  • Plastic waste

  • Nuclear waste

  • supply of biowaste for energy or agriculture

The Circular Economy (design for recycle and reuse) and focus on zero waste provides an opportunity for the waste infrastructure service to support the waste producers to find ways to eliminate waste at the source. This infrastructure service may also provide a number of possible Secondary Raw Materials Sector / Market as part of the nutrient (technical and biological) recycle, reuse and regeneration processes.

Primary SDG Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation

Primary SDG Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts*

Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agricultureGoal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all agesGoal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for allGoal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovationGoal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patternsGoal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts*Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development

Information and Communication Technology Infrastructure Service (FNI, UBS)

The Information and Communication Technology Infrastructure Service provides the following services:

  • Telecommunications (phone, cable, internet)

  • Storage of information (cloud, server farms, data protection, etc)

  • Networks (security, access, speed, wireless safety, etc).

  • Software technology: Operating Systems, Applications, Social Media / Technology.

Consider distribution (postal service, parcel delivery service). This may also interface with Transportation.

Primary SDG Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation

Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for allGoal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for allGoal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation

Social Support Services

Education Infrastructure Service (DD, UBS)

The purpose of the Education Infrastructure Service is to support people through life long learning . This includes:

  • Primary, Secondary, Tertiary, life long

  • Curriculum, Knowledge Base

  • Teachers

  • Learning spaces (schools, events, etc).

"All kids deserve to have an education it's about their own development as a human being, that's the first fundamental purpose of education is for me to become me in the context of society; in the community in which I live. The second purpose of education is so I can truly contribute to my society, so that is why it is very appropriate to always be asking the question, what are the fundamental challenges of our society? Today it is a global society so the purpose of education is to prepare kids to truly be global citizens, but to do it in a way that really is nurturing the uniqueness of them" - Peter Senge

"The principal purpose of an institution of higher learning ought to have two prongs to it, to enable students to learn how to learn and secondly motivate them to do so" - Dr. Russell Ackoff

See Education System Innovation

Primary SDG Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all

Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhereGoal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all agesGoal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for allGoal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainableGoal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts*

Health Infrastructure Service (DD, UBS)

The Health Infrastructure Service covers the entire value system from production to consumption. The scope of this infrastructure service includes both public health and personal health. This infrastructure service includes the following:

  • Full integrative health capabilities (production to consumption)

  • Social Care (care homes, home visiting, community resources)

  • Primary care (GP, local doctors and facilities)

  • Secondary care (accident and emergency, out patient, in patient, intensive care)

  • Pharmacy and drug production and consumption.

  • Public Health (including pandemic response and other health related topics).

  • Alternative healthcare and herbal medicine

Primary SDG Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages

Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhereGoal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all agesGoal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girlsGoal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all

Emergency Services Infrastructure Service

The purpose of the Emergency Services Infrastructure Service is to respond to emergency situations and where possible recommend measures to mitigate the cause. This service provides the following:

  • Single point of contact for help (e.g. phone or local contact)

  • This contact point may route calls to health or the correct emergency services that is available in the community (e.g. mental health, education, etc).

  • Fire, Flood, Earthquake, Storm, Ambulance, Police

  • Police maintain the peace in the community (more to go here).

  • Also includes policing by consent.

Primary SDG Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable

Primary SDG Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts*

Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all agesGoal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainableGoal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts*

Resource Usage Infrastructure Service

The purpose of the Resource Usage Infrastructure Service is to plan and monitor the use of resources within an identified area. This service provides protection to the ecosystems and the way resources are allocated to types of infrastructure services. This services ensures that all people have a say in the shared commons available on the planet.

  • Land use and Management.

  • Allocation of land to types of use (agriculture, housing, manufacturing, roads, energy, etc)

  • Also includes rights for mining or use of natural resources.

Primary SDG Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation

Primary SDG Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable

Primary SDG Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts*

Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agricultureGoal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for allGoal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovationGoal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countriesGoal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainableGoal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patternsGoal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts*Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development

two diagrams to add:

  • N*2 for systems
  • mapping systems to SDG.

Where do the following items go: (DD Uses the term Industry).

  • Clothing (personal protection)
  • Furniture (things in buildings that need to be manufactured)

(this might be a manufacturing infrastructure).