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This book presents an analysis of why some large infrastructure projects are delayed or compromised and offers important insights into the better delivery of future projects. It provides an important reaction to the ambitious €315 billion investment plan devised by the European Commission, wherein Europe's infrastructure is a key investment target. Germany is adopted as a focus, as Europe's largest economy, and a nation that has seen significant delays and tensions in the delivery of key infrastructure projects. The contributions to this volume demonstrate various patterns for infrastructure assets and illustrate how factors such as poor project governance, early planning mistakes, inappropriate risk management and unforeseen technological challenges influence delivery. The in-depth case studies on the Berlin Brandenburg Airport, the Hamburg Elbphilharmonie, and offshore wind parks show how project delivery can face massive problems, and illuminating solutions are offered to these problems. Overall, the case of Germany also offers the opportunity to assess various new forms of project delivery, such as public-private partnerships (PPP), and the risks and opportunities of ambitious first-mover 'pioneer' projects. The book will be of great interest for scholars and upper-level students of human geography, business and management, as well as policy makers.

Social sciences. --- Sociology, Urban. --- Social Sciences. --- Urban Studies/Sociology. --- Infrastructure (Economics) --- Government policy --- Capital, Social (Economics) --- Economic infrastructure --- Social capital (Economics) --- Social infrastructure --- Social overhead capital --- Economic development --- Human settlements --- Public goods --- Public works --- Capital --- Urban sociology --- Cities and towns

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The safe and continued functioning of critical infrastructures - such as electricity, natural gas, transportation, and water - is a social imperative. Yet the complex connections between these systems renders them increasingly precarious. Furthermore, though we depend so heavily on interconnected infrastructures, we do not fully understand the risks involved in their failure. 'Reliability and Risk' argues that designs, policies, and laws often overlook the knowledge and experiences of those who manage these systems on the ground-reliability professionals who have vital insights that would be invaluable to planning.

Infrastructure (Economics) --- Risk management. --- Reliability (Engineering) --- Risk management --- Reliability of equipment --- Systems reliability --- Engineering --- Maintainability (Engineering) --- Probabilities --- Systems engineering --- Plant performance --- Safety factor in engineering --- Structural failures --- Insurance --- Management --- Capital, Social (Economics) --- Economic infrastructure --- Social capital (Economics) --- Social infrastructure --- Social overhead capital --- Economic development --- Human settlements --- Public goods --- Public works --- Capital --- Management. --- E-books

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Economic development projects --- Community development --- Public works --- Infrastructure (Economics) --- Political corruption --- Capital, Social (Economics) --- Economic infrastructure --- Social capital (Economics) --- Social infrastructure --- Social overhead capital --- Economic development --- Human settlements --- Public goods --- Capital --- Regional development --- Economic assistance, Domestic --- Social planning --- Development projects, Economic --- Projects, Economic development --- Economic assistance --- Technical assistance --- Corrupt practices --- Citizen participation --- Government policy --- E-books

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A detailed examination of the increasingly ambitious developments and infrastructure programmes realized in Dubai since the 1970's. This book provides an invaluable understanding of Dubai urbanism, but by highlighting the cycle of typological borrowing, prototypical replication, and scalar amplification. It also argues that the definition of 'infrastructure' in this type of territorial development should be expanded into a set of objects, networks and services that cities can replicate and amplify.

Harbors -- United Arab Emirates -- Dubayy (Emirate). --- Infrastructure (Economics) -- United Arab Emirates -- Dubayy (Emirate). --- Infrastructure, Port. --- Harbors --- Infrastructure (Economics) --- Business & Economics --- Regions & Countries - Asia & the Middle East --- Transportation Economics --- Middle East --- History & Archaeology --- Capital, Social (Economics) --- Economic infrastructure --- Social capital (Economics) --- Social infrastructure --- Social overhead capital --- Harbours --- Ports --- Seaports --- Economic development --- Human settlements --- Public goods --- Public works --- Capital --- Channels (Hydraulic engineering) --- Hydraulic structures --- Terminals (Transportation) --- Anchorages (Harbors)

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Infrastructure and its effects on economic growth, social welfare, and sustainability receive a great deal of attention today. There is widespread agreement that infrastructure is a key dimension of global development and that its impact reaches deep into the broader economy with important and multifaceted implications for social progress. At the same time, infrastructure finance is among the most complex and challenging areas in the global financial architecture. Ingo Walter, Professor Emeritus of Finance, Corporate Governance and Ethics at the Stern School of Business, New York University, and his team of experts tackle the issue by focussing on key findings backed by serious theoretical and empirical research. The result is a set of viable guideposts for researchers, policy-makers, students and anybody interested in the varied challenges of the contemporary economy.

Infrastructure (Economics) --- Public works --- Municipal services --- Economic development --- Sustainable development --- Development, Sustainable --- Ecologically sustainable development --- Economic development, Sustainable --- Economic sustainability --- ESD (Ecologically sustainable development) --- Smart growth --- Sustainable economic development --- Eco-development --- Ecodevelopment --- Capital, Social (Economics) --- Economic infrastructure --- Social capital (Economics) --- Social infrastructure --- Social overhead capital --- Human settlements --- Public goods --- Capital --- Finance --- Environmental aspects --- Economic aspects --- Finance. --- economics --- new york university --- stern school of business --- infrastructure --- finance --- report --- welfare --- social progress --- sustainability --- Project finance