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Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2006-06-29
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9264023992
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis long-term examination of future infrastructure needs examines what will be required, how it will be financed, and how such factors as climate change, globalisation, and urbanisation will affect these needs.
Author: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Publisher: Org. for Economic Cooperation & Development
Published: 2006-07-06
Total Pages: 366
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKEffective infrastructure provision for energy, transport, water and telecommunications services is a key aspect of modern societies and will continue to be essential to future economic development and growth in both OECD and non-OECD countries worldwide. Drawing on a series of expert papers, this publication examines the trends and developments that are likely to impact on infrastructure investment and planning to the year 2030, including urbanisation, climate change, security issues, the evolution of public finances, globalisation and technological developments. The report goes on to assess the longer-term challenges facing the following sectors: electricity transmission and distribution, surface transport, water, telecommunications and broadband.
Author: Dale S. Rothman
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-12-03
Total Pages: 391
ISBN-13: 1317262956
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBuilding Global Infrastructure is the fourth in a series of volumes-Patterns of Potential Human Progress-that uses the International Futures (IFs) simulation model to explore prospects for human development: how development appears to be unfolding globally and locally, how we would like it to evolve, and how better to assure that we move it in desired directions. Earlier volumes addressed the reduction of global poverty, the advance of global education, and the improvement of global health. Volume 4 sets out to tell the story of the future of global infrastructure. The approach used in this book focuses on the question of whether individual societies will be able to meet future infrastructure demands. Related questions include the following: * What is the range of realistically conceivable futures for infrastructure, considering both demand and supply? * How are the demands for infrastructure balanced with the ability to meet these demands, thereby linking the physical and financial treatment of infrastructure? * What are the effects of providing for infrastructure on issues such as economic productivity and health?
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2008-11-13
Total Pages: 191
ISBN-13: 9264054197
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines the contributions that space technologies can make in tackling some of the serious problems posed by climate change, focusing on examples of water management, marine resources and maritime transport.
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2009-05-05
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9264059423
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis review of China's regulatory system focuses on the overall economic context for regulatory reform, the government’s capacity to manage regulatory reform, competition policy and enforcement, and market openness.
Author: Julien Chaisse
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 2017-01-27
Total Pages: 443
ISBN-13: 1785366726
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is about the issues, challenges and directions currently faced by water as a key resource for mankind. The book aims at providing a finer understanding of the water regulatory future. The contributions in this book are grouped around specific themes. In Part I, the contributions address the water challenge to public international law. In Part II, the authors explore the most pressing ethical, legal, and social issues. In Part III, the discussion covers the economic drivers shaping the future of water.
Author: Rajeev J. Sawant
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2010-03-15
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 0470537310
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInvaluable information regarding one of the biggest worldwide growth areas in investing-infrastructure assets Infrastructure investing is about to explode on the worldwide scene. The fact is that real money will need to be spent on real projects-which will present real opportunities for stable, long-term returns. But infrastructure assets have unique characteristics and the investments and funds that will likely rise up must be suitably structured to serve investor needs. Author Rajeev Sawant has been analyzing infrastructure investments, funds, and project financing programs for nearly five years, and with this book, he presents information that will be invaluable to lenders, pension funds, insurance companies, investment funds, rating agencies, and even governments. Presents comprehensive data analysis on infrastructure cases worldwide Analyzes the opportunities as well as the pitfalls of infrastructure investing Focuses on the needs of pensions, insurance companies, and endowments interested in infrastructure investing For the next decade, worldwide economic growth and increased employment-as well as investment returns-will come from infrastructure projects. This book will help you understand today's dynamic infrastructure asset class and quickly get you up to speed on the unique risks and rewards associated with it.
Author: Colin Turner
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 2020-02-28
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 1788970314
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAt the core of the logic of this book is that states engage in infrastructuring as a means of securing and enhancing their territoriality. By positioning infrastructure as a system, there is a presumption that all infrastructures exhibit some degree of mutual dependence. As such, a National Infrastructure System (NIS) is not simply about conventional conceptions of infrastructure based on those that support economic activity (i.e. energy, transport and information) but also about broader hard and soft structures that both enable and are supported by the aforementioned economic infrastructures. Consequently, this book offers an ambitious holistic view on the form of NIS arguing that the infrastructural mandate requires a conception of the state that encapsulates themes from both the competition and the welfare states in infrastructure provision.
Author: Michiel C.J. Bliemer
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 2016-02-26
Total Pages: 545
ISBN-13: 1783471395
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis Handbook provides comprehensive coverage of all of the major factors that underpin our understanding of urban and transport planning in the developed world. Combining urban and transport planning in one volume, the chapters present the state of the art as well as new research and directions for the future. The contributions from leading international academics at the forefront of their fields consider transport and urban planning from a number of different perspectives including historical, policy and strategy dimensions, appraisal and financing of options, planning and design of urban areas and the management of transport and urban systems. Examples and practical guides from the developed world are included along with a detailed discussion of the emerging issues. The Handbook provides an essential reference to all of the key points on the topic as well as signalling areas of concern and future research paths. Academics, researchers, students, policymakers and practitioners will find it a constant source of information and guidance.
Author: Julie Rozenberg
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Published: 2019-02-12
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 1464813647
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBeyond the Gap: How Countries Can Afford the Infrastructure They Need while Protecting the Planet aims to shift the debate regarding investment needs away from a simple focus on spending more and toward a focus on spending better on the right objectives, using relevant metrics. It does so by offering a careful and systematic approach to estimating the funding needs to close the service gaps in water and sanitation, transportation, electricity, irrigation, and flood protection. Exploring thousands of scenarios, this report finds that funding needs depend on the service goals and policy choices of low- and middle-income countries and could range anywhere from 2 percent to 8 percent of GDP per year by 2030. Beyond the Gap also identifies a policy mix that will enable countries to achieve key international goals—universal access to water, sanitation, and electricity; greater mobility; improved food security; better protection from floods; and eventual full decarbonization—while limiting spending on new infrastructure to 4.5 percent of GDP per year. Importantly, the exploration of thousands of scenarios shows that infrastructure investment paths compatible with full decarbonization in the second half of the century need not cost more than more-polluting alternatives. Investment needs remain at 2 percent to 8 percent of GDP even when only the decarbonized scenarios are examined. The actual amount depends on the quality and quantity of services targeted, the timing of investments, construction costs, and complementary policies. Finally, investing in infrastructure is not enough; maintaining it also matters. Improving services requires much more than capital expenditure. Ensuring a steady flow of resources for operations and maintenance is a necessary condition for success. Good maintenance also generates substantial savings by reducing the total life-cycle cost of transport and water and sanitation infrastructure by more than 50 percent.
