Infrastructure category: 179 books

Cover of Africa's Infrastructure: A Time For Transformation
by Foster Vivien; Briceño-Garmendia Cecilia M.
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009

Sustainable infrastructure development is vital for Africa's prosperity. And now is the time to begin the transformation. This volume is the culmination of an unprecedented effort to document, analyze, and interpret the full extent of the challenge in developing Sub-Saharan Africa's infrastructure...
Cover of The Political Economy of Infrastructure Investment in Latin America: Analysis of Brazil, Mexico, and Chile on Deficiencies in Transportation, Energy, Telecommunications, and Water and Sanitation
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018

This important 2018 report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. What factors are responsible for varying levels of infrastructure investment and development across Latin America? Deficiencies in economic infrastructure—broadly classified...
Cover of The Limits Of Stabilization: Infrastructure, Public Deficits And Growth In Latin America
by World Bank
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2003

Customers in the US and Canada please order from Stanford University Press at (800) 621-2736 or visit their website at www.sup.org. Over the 1980s and 1990s, most Latin American countries witnessed a retrenchment of the public sector from infrastructure provision and an opening up of infrastructure activities...
Cover of The Road Taken

The Road Taken

The History and Future of America's Infrastructure

by Henry Petroski
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016

A renowned historian and engineer explores the past, present, and future of America's crumbling infrastructure. Acclaimed engineer and historian Henry Petroski explores our core infrastructure from both historical and contemporary perspectives, explaining how essential their maintenance is...
Cover of Handbook of Research on Economic, Financial, and Industrial Impacts on Infrastructure Development
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Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2017

The infrastructure of a country has significant effects on both the lives of its citizens and its place in international markets. As such, it is imperative to develop policies to promote the quality of a nation’s infrastructure. The Handbook of Research on Economic, Financial, and Industrial Impacts...
Cover of Infrastructure for Supporting Inclusive Growth and Poverty Reduction in Asia
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012

This publication summarizes the papers and presentations in Workshops on Economics of Infrastructure in a Globalized World, funded by the Asian Development Bank through a regional technical assistance project. The discussions at the conferences focused on three themes: (i) the role of infrastructure...
Cover of Nuclear Infrastructure Protection and Homeland Security
by Frank R. Spellman, Melissa L. Stoudt
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2011

Experts agree, though it is already important, nuclear power will soon be critical to the maintenance of contemporary society. With the heightened importance of nuclear energy comes a heightened threat of terrorism. The possibility of nuclear energy infrastructure terrorism-that is, the use of weapons...
Cover of Technology Infrastructure
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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013

Technology infrastructure supports the design, deployment and use of both individual technology-based components and the systems of such components that form the knowledge-based economy. As such, it plays a central role in the innovation process and in the promotion of the diffusion of technologies....
Cover of Service Unavailable

Service Unavailable

America’s Telecommunications Infrastructure Crisis

by Frederick L. Pilot
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015

A decade and a half into the twenty-first century, the United States is more than 20 years behind where it should be relative to constructing fiber optic telecommunications infrastructure to deliver advanced, Internet-based telecommunications services. Moreover, the nation has no credible, comprehensive...
Cover of Green Infrastructure Implementation
by Water Environment Federation
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014

Green Infrastructure Implementation provides actionable information that promotes the implementation of green infrastructure. Unlike most publications, which focus on technical design of individual green elements, this book tackles topics that relate directly to the ability to implement green infrastructure....
Cover of Laws of Infrastructure Development in India
by Dr. Souvik Chatterji
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014

Indian Infrastructure Sectors including Airports, Roadways, Telecom Sector, Electricity Sector, Ports, SEZs, Natural Gas Sector, etc., had developed a lot in the last 15 years after liberalization took place considering the developments all across the world. A lot of development projects in these...
Cover of Energy Infrastructure Protection and Homeland Security
by Frank R. Spellman
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016

In the post-9/11 world, the possibility of energy infrastructure-terrorism—the use of weapons to cause devastating damage to the energy industrial sector and cause cascading effects—is very real. Energy Infrastructure Protection and Homeland Security, Second Edition, is a reference for those involved...
Cover of Handbook of Research on Strategic Business Infrastructure Development and Contemporary Issues in Finance
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Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014

The dynamic economic climate invites participants who are grounded in strategic financial management and infrastructure development. Thus, a lack of sufficient infrastructure, in both quality and quantity, often disqualifies developing countries from being key players in the global economy and influences...
Cover of Beyond the Gap

Beyond the Gap

How Countries Can Afford the Infrastructure They Need while Protecting the Planet

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Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2019

Beyond 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...
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