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Les infrastructures sont partout. Comme leur nom l'indique, elles supportent nos vies quotidiennes, ce sont des ponts, des aéroports, des réseaux d'eau ou d'électricité, mais aussi des câbles sous-marins et des fermes de serveurs informatiques. Alors que l'on constate, en général, un clivage prononcé entre les chercheurs qui s'intéressent aux nouvelles infrastructures (autour du numérique) et les « fidèles » des infrastructures liées de prime abord à la première et la seconde révolution industrielle, les auteurs de cet ouvrage s'inscrivent indistinctement dans les deux groupes. Certains d'entre eux s'essaient même à explorer ce qu'il advient des infrastructures classiques à l'ère du numérique. Ce rapprochement permet d'approfondir ce qu'il y a de commun dans des infrastructures variées et de discuter de la pertinence de l'extension de la notion à d'autres domaines. Il permet également de souligner certaines évolutions partagées en particulier autour de l'affirmation de l'individu et de l'émergence d'une dimension politique jusque-là souvent enterrée, comme le sont bien des réseaux d'infrastructures.
Infrastructure (Economics) --- Capital, Social (Economics) --- Economic infrastructure --- Social capital (Economics) --- Social infrastructure --- Social overhead capital --- Economic development --- Human settlements --- Public goods --- Public works --- Capital
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Politicians and citizens universally agree that Canada’s urban infrastructure urgently needs work. Roads and bridges are overdue for repair, aging water systems should be replaced, sewage must be adequately treated, urban transit needs to be updated and extended, and it is necessary that public housing as well as schools, health centres, and government offices are brought up to current standards. But few cities have room to raise additional revenue, and the federal and provincial governments to which they turn for financial support are already in deficit, so who is going to pay for all of this? Bringing together perspectives and case studies from across Canada, the US, and Europe, Financing Infrastructure argues that the answer to the question “Who should pay?” should always be “users.” Headed by two of Canada’s foremost experts on municipal finance, this book provides a closer look at why charging user fees makes sense, how much users should pay, how to charge fees well and where present processes can be improved, and how to convince the politicians and the public of the importance of pricing infrastructure correctly. Across the disciplines of public policy, urban studies, and economics, almost no one is looking at the extent to which users should play a role in infrastructure planning. Financing Infrastructure contends that the users, not federal and provincial taxpayers, should start paying directly for their cities’ repairs and expansions. Contributors include Richard M. Bird (University of Toronto), Bernard Dafflon (University of Fribourg, Switzerland), Robert D. Ebel (Local Governance Innovation and Development), Harry Kitchen (Trent University), Jean-Philippe Meloche (Université de Montréal), Matti Siemiatycki (University of Toronto), Enid Slack (University of Toronto), Almos T. Tassonyi (University of Calgary), Lindsay M. Tedds (University of Victoria), François Vaillancourt (Université de Montréal), and Yameng Wang (World Bank).
Infrastructure (Economics) --- Capital, Social (Economics) --- Economic infrastructure --- Social capital (Economics) --- Social infrastructure --- Social overhead capital --- Economic development --- Human settlements --- Public goods --- Public works --- Capital --- Finance
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"In the summer of 2013, just as a small town in Quebec was decimated due to a train derailment, heavy rainfall prompted thirty Alberta communities to declare a state of emergency. Whereas a SWAT team surrounded train conductor Thomas Harding and brought him to court where he was charged with the deaths of forty-seven in Quebec, Calgary mayor Naheed Nenshi emerged from the Alberta crisis as a folk hero. As the Lac-Mégantic train derailment and the flood in Alberta demonstrate, political, economic, legal, and cultural climates influence the way disasters are received. In Too Critical to Fail, Kevin Quigley, Ben Bisset, and Bryan Mills identify the social context that shapes the Canadian government's ability to prepare for and respond to emergencies. Using original research on natural disasters, pandemics, industrial failures, cyber-attacks, and terrorist threats, the authors evaluate the risk regulation regimes that monitor, interpret, and respond to failures in Canada's critical infrastructure to limit their possibilities and consequences. More broadly, this book identifies key vulnerabilities and regulatory challenges for both the government and the private sector in mitigating threats to safety and security. Too Critical to Fail applies an investigative lens to the multiple and competing risks that the government balances to secure assets that enable modern civilization. Raising questions not only about Canadians' ability to protect critical infrastructure and respond to threats, this book further challenges the biases that determine who is held to account when the system fails."--
Infrastructure (Economics) --- Capital, Social (Economics) --- Economic infrastructure --- Social capital (Economics) --- Social infrastructure --- Social overhead capital --- Economic development --- Human settlements --- Public goods --- Public works --- Capital --- Government policy --- Security measures
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Infrastructure (Economics) --- Capital, Social (Economics) --- Economic infrastructure --- Social capital (Economics) --- Social infrastructure --- Social overhead capital --- Economic development --- Human settlements --- Public goods --- Public works --- Capital --- Asia --- Economic conditions.
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The book provides readers with a clear understanding of infrastructure challenges, how Public‐Private Partnerships (PPP) can help, and their use in practice. Infrastructure bottlenecks are generally considered the most important constraint to growth in many countries worldwide. Historically, infrastructure projects have been financed and implemented by the state. However, owing to the fiscal resource crunch, time and cost over‐runs, and the general poor quality of publicly provided infrastructure, many emerging market governments, including India, have increasingly adopted PPPs with billions of dollars of investment riding on them. The results have been varied – from spectacular airports like the Delhi International Airport Limited with the associated controversy over land use, to the renegotiation of contracts as in the case of Tata Mundra Ultra Mega Power Project. Illustrating concepts with relevant case studies, the book makes the challenges of PPPs understandable to industry and management practitioners as well as students of management, public policy and economics. It is useful to practitioners wishing to avoid the pitfalls in the tricky terrain of PPPs and policymakers wanting guidance in crafting proper incentives. It also helps students gain a holistic and “applied” understanding of this increasingly important and popular model. “Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) in India are currently under stress. A comprehensive treatment of the subject by a long-time and erudite practitioner and a management academic, this book should be useful to students trying to learn the basics, while also being valuable to professionals and policy makers. The book suggests that the Government should hold bidders accountable to their submitted bids, thereby preserving sanctity of contract. This will discourage aggressive bidding which has become a serious and endemic problem. The book also suggests the use of better bidding criteria to mitigate traffic risk in transport projects. Policy makers should pay heed to these suggestions as they consider improvements in the PPP policy regime going forward.” —Arvind Subramanian, Chief Economic Adviser, India “For a fast-growing India, infrastructure creation and operation is a great challenge and opportunity. This excellent book combines theory and practice on PPPs, and is very useful for professionals and students alike. With case studies and current developments, the authors bring out issues in India with global experiences as well. A must-read for infrastructure practitioners.” —Shailesh Pathak, Chief Executive (Designate), L&T Infrastructure Development Projects Limited “India’s program of private participation in infrastructure attracted worldwide attention as it became one of the largest programs in emerging markets. As well as the volumes of finance mobilized, it garnered interest because of some of the innovative approaches developed, such as Viability Gap Funding. The Indian PPP story is well captured in this book, which also makes the point that India is seeing project cancellations and failures rise. The authors analyze the factors behind this and point the way to a more robust PPP market that learns from the experiences of the past.” —Clive Harris, Practice Manager, Public-Private Partnerships, World Bank.
Public-private sector cooperation --- Infrastructure (Economics) --- Capital, Social (Economics) --- Economic infrastructure --- Social capital (Economics) --- Social infrastructure --- Social overhead capital --- Private-public partnerships --- Private-public sector cooperation --- Public-private partnerships --- Public-private sector collaboration --- Finance. --- Real estate management. --- Finance, Public. --- Public policy. --- Development economics. --- Public Finance. --- Public Policy. --- Real Estate Management. --- Development Economics. --- Economic development --- Human settlements --- Public goods --- Public works --- Capital --- Cooperation --- Cameralistics --- Public finance --- Currency question --- Property management --- Apartment houses --- Housing --- Office buildings --- Real estate business --- Economics --- Public finances
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Proven, Profitable, and Sustainable For the past fifty years, leaders in the business world have believed that their sole responsibility is to maximize profit for shareholders. But this obsessive focus was a major cause of the abuses that nearly sunk the global economy in 2008. In this analytically rigorous and eminently practical book, Bruno Roche and Jay Jakub offer a more complete form of capitalism, one that delivers superior financial performance precisely because it mobilizes and generates human, social, and natural capital along with financial capital. They describe how the model has been implemented in live business pilots in Africa, Asia, and elsewhere. Recent high-profile books like Capital in the Twenty-First Century have exposed financial capitalism's shortcomings, but this book goes far beyond by describing a well-developed, field-tested alternative.
E-books --- Capitalism --- Capital market --- Human capital --- Infrastructure (Economics) --- Capitalism. --- Capital market. --- Human capital. --- Capital, Social (Economics) --- Economic infrastructure --- Social capital (Economics) --- Social infrastructure --- Social overhead capital --- Economic development --- Human settlements --- Public goods --- Public works --- Capital --- Human assets --- Human beings --- Human resources --- Labor supply --- Capital markets --- Market, Capital --- Finance --- Financial institutions --- Loans --- Money market --- Securities --- Crowding out (Economics) --- Efficient market theory --- Market economy --- Economics --- Profit --- Economic value --- #SBIB:316.334.2A60 --- #SBIB:33H012 --- #SBIB:33H041 --- Economische sociologie --- Economische stelsels (Marxisme, capitalisme …) --- Economische ontwikkelingen en bewegingen --- Capital Market --- Human Capital --- Political Science --- Business & Economics
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"This book is an ethnographic and historical study of the main Albania-Greece highway. But more than an ethnography on the road, it is an anthropology of the road. Highways are part of an explicit cultural-material nexus that includes houses, urban architecture and vehicles. Complex socio-political phenomena such as EU border security, nationalist politics, post-Cold War capitalism and financial crises all leave their mark in the concrete. This book explores anew classical anthropological and sociological categories of analysis in direct reference to infrastructure, providing unique insights into the political and cultural processes that took place across Europe after the Cold War. More specifically, it sheds light on political and economic relationships in the Balkans during the socialist post-Cold War period, focusing especially on Albania, one of the most under-researched countries in the region. Categories such as the house, domestic life, the city, kinship, money, boundaries, nationalism, statecraft, geographic mobility, and distance--to name but a few--seem very different when seen from, or on, the road."--
#SBIB:39A72 --- Etnografie: Europa --- Roads --- Infrastructure (Economics) --- Ethnology --- Transportation geography --- Social aspects --- Anthropology --- E-books --- Human beings --- Highways --- Roadways --- Thoroughfares --- Transportation --- Highway engineering --- Pavements --- Ethnology. --- Transportation geography. --- Capital, Social (Economics) --- Economic infrastructure --- Social capital (Economics) --- Social infrastructure --- Social overhead capital --- Economic development --- Human settlements --- Public goods --- Public works --- Capital --- Transport geography --- Geography --- Cultural anthropology --- Ethnography --- Races of man --- Social anthropology --- Social aspects. --- Balkan Peninsula. --- Balkan States --- Balkans --- Europe, Southeastern --- Southeastern Europe --- Primitive societies --- Roads - Social aspects - Balkan Peninsula --- Infrastructure (Economics) - Social aspects - Balkan Peninsula --- Ethnology - Balkan Peninsula --- Transportation geography - Balkan Peninsula --- Eastern Europe --- Social sciences --- Albania. --- Balkans. --- Borders. --- Critical Studies. --- Greece. --- House. --- Infrastructures. --- Migration. --- Mobility. --- Urban Development.
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'The Traffic Systems of Pompeii' is the first sustained examination of the development of the road infrastructure in Pompeii - from the archaic age to the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 CE - and its implications for urbanism in the Roman empire.
Traffic engineering --- City and town life --- Streets --- Technique de la circulation --- Vie urbaine --- Rues --- Pompeii (Extinct city) --- Pompéi (Ville ancienne) --- Social conditions. --- Economic conditions. --- Conditions sociales --- Conditions économiques --- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Transportation. --- City and town life. --- Economic history. --- Infrastructure (Economics) --- Infrastructure (Economics). --- Streets. --- TRANSPORTATION / Public Transportation. --- Traffic engineering. --- History --- Italy --- History. --- Capital, Social (Economics) --- Economic infrastructure --- Social capital (Economics) --- Social infrastructure --- Social overhead capital --- Economic development --- Human settlements --- Public goods --- Public works --- Capital --- Avenues --- Boulevards --- Thoroughfares --- Roads --- City life --- Town life --- Urban life --- Sociology, Urban --- Engineering, Traffic --- Road traffic --- Street traffic --- Traffic, City --- Traffic control --- Traffic regulation --- Urban traffic --- Highway engineering --- Transportation engineering --- Pompei (Extinct city) --- Pompeii (Ancient city) --- Antiquities
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Selected papers from the International Conference on Sustainable Infrastructure 2017, held in New York, New York, October 26–28, 2017. Sponsored by the Committee on Sustainability of ASCE. This collection contains 37 peer-reviewed papers on methodologies in sustainable infrastructure development. Topics include: complex systems analysis; sustainable return on investment; infrastructure and management; and infrastructure problems in developing nations. This collection will be of interest to practitioners, researchers, and policy makers and public infrastructure owners, planners, and managers.
Infrastructure (Economics) --- Sustainable development --- Sustainable engineering --- Water quality management --- Environmental aspects --- Methodology --- Engineering sustainability --- Green engineering --- Engineering --- Green technology --- Environmental engineering --- Development, Sustainable --- Ecologically sustainable development --- Economic development, Sustainable --- Economic sustainability --- ESD (Ecologically sustainable development) --- Smart growth --- Sustainable economic development --- Economic development --- Capital, Social (Economics) --- Economic infrastructure --- Social capital (Economics) --- Social infrastructure --- Social overhead capital --- Human settlements --- Public goods --- Public works --- Capital --- Water quality --- Water quality control --- Management --- Sewage disposal --- Water conservation --- Water-supply --- Infrastructure --- System analysis --- Professional societies --- Investments --- Developing countries --- Public policy --- Owners
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This book addresses the role of social capital in promoting rural and local development. The recent financial and economic crises have exposed the European Union (EU) to an increased risk of social exclusion and poverty, which are now at the heart of its economic, employment and social agenda with explicit reference to rural and marginal areas (Europe 2020). The authors' work from the notion that rural development is not imposed from the ‘outside’, but depends also on endogenous factors, namely local cultural and ecological amenities, eco-system services, and economic links with urban areas which expand rural opportunities for innovation, competitiveness, employment and sustainable development. Social capital is of paramount importance because it helps build networks and trusting relations among local stakeholders in the public and private spheres, and supporting the enhancement of governance of natural resources in rural areas.
Evolutionary economics. --- Development economics. --- Economics. --- Agricultural economics. --- Agricultural Economics. --- Development Economics. --- Institutional/Evolutionary Economics. --- Economic Systems. --- International Political Economy. --- Rural development. --- Social capital (Sociology) --- Infrastructure (Economics) --- Capital, Social (Economics) --- Economic infrastructure --- Social capital (Economics) --- Social infrastructure --- Social overhead capital --- Economic development --- Human settlements --- Public goods --- Public works --- Capital --- Capital, Social (Sociology) --- Sociology --- Community development, Rural --- Development, Rural --- Integrated rural development --- Regional development --- Rehabilitation, Rural --- Rural community development --- Rural development --- Rural economic development --- Agriculture and state --- Community development --- Regional planning --- Citizen participation --- Social aspects --- Political economy. --- Political Economy/Economic Systems. --- Economic theory --- Political economy --- Social sciences --- Economic man --- Economics --- Agrarian question --- Agribusiness --- Agricultural economics --- Agricultural production economics --- Agriculture --- Production economics, Agricultural --- Land use, Rural --- Economic aspects --- Economic policy. --- Economic nationalism --- Economic planning --- National planning --- State planning --- Planning --- National security --- Social policy
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