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Covers -- Editorial advisory board -- Guest editorial -- Factors affecting maintenance management in hospital buildings -- Modified sewer asset management to accommodate London's future sustainable development -- Actions, attitudes and beliefs of occupants in managing dampness in buildings -- Adaptive reuse of historical buildings -- Delay factors of the schedule of strategic industrial projects -- Mechanisms for preventing rising damp in new building infrastructure -- A review of selected neighbourhood sustainability assessment frameworks using the Bellagio STAMP.

Attending to the everyday lives of infrastructure across four continents, the contributors to The Promise of Infrastructure demonstrate how infrastructure such as roads, power lines, and water pipes offer a productive site for generating new ways to theorize time, politics, and promise

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; Notes on contributors; Foreword; Introduction; Part I Knowing infrastructure; 1 Relational infrastructures in postcolonial urban worlds; 2 Infra-city: speculations on flux and history in infrastructure-making; Part II Infrastructural violence and dispossession; 3 Water wars in Mumbai; 4 Waiting in the ruins: the aesthetics and politics of favela urbanization in "PACification" Rio de Janeiro; 5 Road 443: cementing dispossession, normalizing segregation and disrupting everyday life in Palestine

This paper proposes an institutional solution that can help unlock the flow of low yielding longterm savings towards high-return infrastructure investments. The solution is to transform public-private partnerships in infrastructure and the classic model of multilateral development banks. Instead of thinking of public-private partnerships as bilateral contracts between a private concession operator and a government agency, we argue that they should be conceived as partnerships that also involve a development bank and long-term institutional investors as partners. We propose a new model for development banks, which is to transform themselves into originate-and-distribute banks for PPP infrastructure projects. This way they can conserve their valuable capital and leverage their expertise and capabilities by making them available to longterm institutional investors.

chapter 1. Introduction to multihazard considerations -- chapter 2. Theoretical background -- chapter 3. Analysis in MH environment -- chapter 4. Vulnerability, reliability, and exposure: current design paradigms -- chapter 5. Probabilistic graph networks -- chapter 6. Risk and resilience assessment in multihazard environment -- chapter 7. Multihazard acceptance -- chapter 8. Multihazard risk and resilience treatment -- chapter 9. Multihazard exposure, risk, and resilience monitoring -- chapter 10. Applications

A comprehensive look at the emergence of infrastructurefinance Just as infrastructure development acts as a catalyst foreconomic growth, it is also changing the landscape for potentialinvestors and the burgeoning field of infrastructure finance.Infrastructure systems for transportation, utilities, and publicworks are essential for economic growth and have quickly developedinto an emerging alternative asset class. Infrastructure Finance examines how the activitiesassociated with updating and creating efficient transportation andcommunications, reliable and affordable energy, clean water, andother essential systems, have become a profitable financialendeavor. Recently, providing, operating, and maintaininginfrastructure has advanced as a recognized and importantinvestment sector that reaches beyond earlier business models.Infrastructure Finance puts this field in perspectiveand details what you need to know to succeed within it. An informative look at infrastructure finance-an emergingalternative investment for all types of institutionalinvestorsDissects the central organizational and financial issues behindthe revolutions that are occurring in infrastructure management andfinanceContains detailed guidance for navigating the dynamic field ofinfrastructure financeDiscusses infrastructure as arteries of life for a betterworldHighlights infrastructure undergoing transformations to adaptto turbulent environmentsFocuses on Green infrastructure to balance economic andenvironmental changes As infrastructure finance continues to grow in importance,you'll need to enhance your understanding of its essential aspects.Infrastructure Finance will provide you with theinsights to achieve this goal.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1 -- The Institutional and Regulatory Environment for Public-Private Partnerships in Infrastructure in Emerging Markets and Developing Economies -- Abstract -- Introduction -- The Enabling Environment: Regulatory and Institutional Framework for PPPs -- Empirical Analysis -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 2 -- Governance Institutions and the Investment Costs of Non-Conventional Renewable Energy Initiatives in Developing Countries -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Privately Sponsored Non-Conventional Renewable Energy Initiatives in Develping Countries -- The Econometric Analysis -- Description of the Variables -- Institutional Governance and Business Environment Variables -- Control Variables -- The Econometric Methodology -- Results -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3 -- Electric Power Generation in Brazil: Evaluating the Regulation Model's Basic Assumption -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Electric Power Generation Market in Brazil -- Methodology -- Data and Variables -- The SUR Results -- Economies of Scale -- Stochastic Frontier Model Results -- Economies of Scale -- Efficiency Measurement -- Productivity Evolution -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4 -- Tapping the Bounty: Challenges to Restore the Investments in the Brazilian Oil Industry -- Abstract -- Introduction -- The Oil Production in Brazil: Challenges and Prospects -- The Pre-Salt Revolution -- The Role of the Technological Learning Process -- The Role of the Liberalization Process -- The Discovery of the Bounty - The "Winning Ticket" -- The Crisis in the Brazilian Oil Industry: The Road from Euphoria to Depression -- The Rise and Crisis of the Brazilian Independent Oil Companies' : The OGX Case -- Petrobras in Trouble -- Petrobras' Financial Statements for 2014: Discovering the Damage