Publication structure

Editorial desks

Ten permanent editorial desks structure Mark and Focus analysis across the connected systems shaping markets, cities, infrastructure, economies, and society.

The desks provide distinct editorial lenses while allowing analysis to connect governance, finance, technology, infrastructure, climate, nature, and urban transformation.

Urban Systems

Cities, urban governance, planning, adaptation, public space, and systems transformation.

24 analyses

Latest analysisJapan Is Asking Which Infrastructure Still Needs to Exist
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Water Governance

Water security, utilities, integrated water management, reuse, digital water, and institutional reform.

46 analyses

Latest analysisPoland Is Opening Power-Station Cooling to Reclaimed Water
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Climate Resilience

Climate adaptation, disaster resilience, drought, flooding, extreme heat, coastal pressures, and the mechanisms used to strengthen resilience.

91 analyses

Latest analysisEngland’s Drought Response Is Now Managing Scarcity and Sudden Flooding at Once
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Infrastructure Systems

Water, transport, energy, digital, and municipal infrastructure, with a focus on governance, investment, implementation, and delivery.

38 analyses

Latest analysisBrazil Is Rewriting the Connection Rules for a Two-Way Grid
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Digital Systems & Intelligence

Digital infrastructure, data systems, AI, sensors, monitoring, digital twins, automation, and operational intelligence.

23 analyses

Latest analysisIndonesia Wants One Data Reference Without One Data Owner
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Circular Economy

Resource recovery, reuse, industrial symbiosis, circular procurement, waste systems, and material transitions.

64 analyses

Latest analysisJapan Is Building a Local Carbon Chain Around a Waste Plant
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Nature-Based Solutions

Green infrastructure, ecosystem restoration, urban nature, wetlands, and nature-based adaptation.

11 analyses

Latest analysisEngland’s Wildfires Show Why Peatland Resilience Is an Operating System
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Environmental Governance

Institutions, regulation, policy frameworks, public administration, cooperation, and implementation capacity.

19 analyses

Latest analysisJapan Is Testing Environmental Due Diligence Inside Two Real Value Chains
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Infrastructure Finance

Capital planning, public investment, tariffs, blended finance, climate finance, asset management, and delivery systems.

31 analyses

Latest analysisJapan Is Moving Nature Finance From Disclosure Toward Investment Decisions
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Sustainable Urban Development

Integrated urban sustainability, resource resilience, land use, housing and infrastructure relationships, and long-term urban transitions.

24 analyses

Latest analysisAPEC’s Zero-Carbon City Framework Starts With Comparable Urban Energy Work
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Cross-desk perspective

Connected systems

Mark and Focus examines how developments move across institutional boundaries. Infrastructure finance shapes delivery. Digital monitoring changes governance. Nature-based solutions affect urban resilience. Circular systems influence investment and resource security.

  • Climate Resilience Infrastructure Finance
  • Urban Systems Nature-Based Solutions
  • Water Governance Digital Water & Monitoring
  • Circular Economy Sustainable Urban Development