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| Author | : Matthias Korn |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 290 |
| Release | : 2019-05-28 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 3658207256 |
The volume scrutinizes publics and infrastructures not separately but in their constitutive interrelations and resonances. The contributions, originating in a range of disciplinary perspectives, share a praxeological approach, discussing historical and current processes of mediated cooperation in infrastructuring and making public(s) by tracing different forms of the production, design, and historic trajectories of various publics and infrastructures.
| Author | : E. R. Yescombe |
| Publisher | : Butterworth-Heinemann |
| Total Pages | : 549 |
| Release | : 2018-05-29 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 0081007671 |
Public-Private Partnerships for Infrastructure - Principles of Policy and Finance, Second Edition explains how public private partnerships are prepared, procured, financed, and managed from both the public- and private-sector perspectives. As the use of public private partnerships continues to develop world-wide, both in the area of public policy and private financing and contracting, the Second Edition of this leading textbook: - Captures and explains the latest approaches, providing a comprehensive all-round guide for those on both the public- and private-sector sides of the table - Emphasises a step-by-step approach within a comprehensive, cross-referenced format - Includes clear explanations of PPP evaluation, structuring and financing concepts for the benefit of those new to the topic: no prior knowledge is assumed or required - Provides detailed reference points for more experienced practitioners - Draws from the authors' experience and practice in PPP markets worldwide to provide a perspective on practical application of the key underlying principles - Includes an extensive glossary of technical and financial terms used in the PPP sector - Includes more technical information and a stronger legal perspective than other books - Emphasizes a step-by-step approach within a comprehensive, cross-referenced format - Expands and updates the historical backgrounds and political contexts of public-private partnerships
| Author | : Edward L. Glaeser |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 479 |
| Release | : 2021-11-11 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 022680058X |
"Policy-makers often call for expanding public spending on infrastructure, which includes a broad range of investments from roads and bridges to digital networks that will expand access to high-speed broadband. Some point to near-term macro-economic benefits and job creation, others focus on long-term effects on productivity and economic growth. This volume explores the links between infrastructure spending and economic outcomes, as well as key economic issues in the funding and management of infrastructure projects. It draws together research studies that describe the short-run stimulus effects of infrastructure spending, develop new estimates of the stock of U.S. infrastructure capital, and explore the incentive aspects of public-private partnerships (PPPs). A salient issue is the treatment of risk in evaluating publicly-funded infrastructure projects and in connection with PPPs. The goal of the volume is to provide a reference for researchers seeking to expand research on infrastructure issues, and for policy-makers tasked with determining the appropriate level of infrastructure spending"--
| Author | : Carlos Oliveira Cruz |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Total Pages | : 189 |
| Release | : 2013-05-18 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 3642369103 |
Economic development and social welfare depend on the existence of effective and efficient infrastructure systems, particularly in health, energy, transportation and water, many of which are developed and managed through Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs). However, empirical evidence suggests some pitfalls in the use of these PPP arrangements. This book addresses these issues, focusing on mostly three key questions: How to improve the robustness of the decision-making process leading to the option of PPP? How to improve contract management as the longest phase of the process? How can contracts be improved to accommodate uncertainty and avoid harmful renegotiations? The authors explore the concept of flexible contracts, the uncertainty modeling for improving the robustness of the decision-making process, and develop an overall framework for effective contract management, along with a comprehensive analysis of current renegotiation patterns. The ultimate goal is to improve the contractual performance, as well as the overall infrastructure management and social welfare.
| Author | : Christopher Coutts |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 327 |
| Release | : 2016-02-05 |
| Genre | : Architecture |
| ISBN | : 1317298578 |
There is a growing body of knowledge revealing a sweeping array of connections between public health and green infrastructure – but not until now have the links between them been brought together in one comprehensive book. Green Infrastructure and Public Health provides an overview of current research and theories of the ecological relationships and mechanisms by which the environment influences human health and health behaviour. Covering a broad spectrum of contemporary understanding, Coutts outlines: public health models that explicitly promote the importance of the environment to health ways in which the quality of the landscape is tied to health challenges of maintaining viable landscapes amidst a rapidly changing global environment This book presents the case for fundamental human dependence on the natural environment and creates a bridge between contemporary science on the structure and form of a healthy landscape and the myriad ways that a healthy landscape supports healthy human beings. It presents ideal reading for students and practitioners of landscape architecture, urban design, planning, and health studies.
| Author | : Germà Bel |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 175 |
| Release | : 2016-04-14 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1317574370 |
Public–private partnerships (PPPs) are arrangements between government and private actors with the objective of providing public infrastructure, facilities and services. Three fundamental questions frame the use of PPPs at the local level: What do PPPs look like? What gives rise to the use of PPPs? And, what are the outcomes of PPPs? The articles in this book provide insightful answers to these questions. In addition, the contributions in the book identify lines of research that invite further investigation, namely: problems related to the degree of risk transfer; the challenges posed by renegotiation; and evaluation of PPPs’ results. The content of this book will be of interest for scholars, policy analysts, and policy makers. This book was published as a special issue of Local Government Studies.
| Author | : Nikhil Anand |
| Publisher | : Duke University Press |
| Total Pages | : 270 |
| Release | : 2018-07-16 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1478002034 |
From U.S.-Mexico border walls to Flint's poisoned pipes, there is a new urgency to the politics of infrastructure. Roads, electricity lines, water pipes, and oil installations promise to distribute the resources necessary for everyday life. Yet an attention to their ongoing processes also reveals how infrastructures are made with fragile and often violent relations among people, materials, and institutions. While infrastructures promise modernity and development, their breakdowns and absences reveal the underbelly of progress, liberal equality, and economic growth. This tension, between aspiration and failure, makes infrastructure a productive location for social theory. Contributing to the everyday lives of infrastructure across four continents, some of the leading anthropologists of infrastructure demonstrate in The Promise of Infrastructure how these more-than-human assemblages made over more-than-human lifetimes offer new opportunities to theorize time, politics, and promise in the contemporary moment. A School for Advanced Research Advanced Seminar Contributors. Nikhil Anand, Hannah Appel, Geoffrey C. Bowker, Dominic Boyer, Akhil Gupta, Penny Harvey, Brian Larkin, Christina Schwenkel, Antina von Schnitzler
| Author | : Limn LImn |
| Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
| Total Pages | : 106 |
| Release | : 2016-12-30 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781541384927 |
Infrastructure has always had a privileged relationship to both expertise and the public in modern government. But in the early 21st century, this relationship is inflected in novel ways. The purposes public infrastructure was meant to serve-welfare, quality of life, economic development, and so on-persist. But they are often conceptualized differently, promoted by different agencies, and articulated through novel technological and collective relations. This issue of Limn explores new formations of infrastructure, publicness, and expertise.The contributions examine how new forms of expertise conceive the public and make claims in its name, how publics are making novel claims on experts (and claims to expertise), and how earlier norms and techniques of infrastructure provisioning are being adapted in the process.
| Author | : Neil L. Shumsky |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 436 |
| Release | : 2013-12-16 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1135603057 |
First Published in 1996. Part of a series that brings together more than 200 scholarly articles pertaining to the history and development of urban life in the United States during the past two centuries. The physical development of cities and their infrastructure is considered in Volume 2, which focuses on city planning and its origins in the Rural Cemetery Movement, the City Beautiful Movement, and the role of business in advocating more rational and efficient urban places. Volume 2 also contains articles about essential aspects of the urban infra structure and the provision of basic services essential for urban survival—water, sewer, and transportation systems.
| Author | : Jan-Erik Lane |
| Publisher | : SAGE |
| Total Pages | : 322 |
| Release | : 1997-12-12 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 085702616X |
Deregulation, privatization and marketization have become the bywords for the reforms and debates surrounding the public sector. This major book is unique in its comparative analysis of the reform experience in Western and Eastern Europe, Australia, New Zealand and Canada. Leading experts identify a number of key factors to systematically explain the similarities and differences, map common problems and together reflect on the future shape of the public sector, exploring significant themes in a lively and accessible way.
