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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Dedication -- Contributors -- 1. Introduction -- 2. A Brief History of Infrastructure in Canada, 1870-2015 -- 3. The Canadian Infrastructure Report Card -- 4. Financing Regional Public Transit in Ontario: The Case for Strengthening the Wicksellian Connection -- 5. A Fiscal Federalism Framework for Financing Infrastructure -- 6. Distorted Infrastructure -- 7. Cost Overruns on Infrastructure Projects: Patterns, Causes, and Cures -- 8. Infrastructure and Intergovernmental Relations: A Policy Framework, Roles, and Relationships, and a Case Study -- 9. Québec's Management of Public Infrastructure -- 10. In Defence of Borrowing -- 11. Recycling Public Assets: An Idea Whose Time Has Come? -- 12. Fiscal Policy and Federal Infrastructure Financing -- 13. KENNETH MACGREGOR LECTURE. When Public-Private Partnerships Make Sense: Two Basic Observations -- 14. The Aboriginal Resource Tax: Closing the Infrastructure Gap -- 15. Federalism and Transportation Infrastructure: The US Experience -- 16. Is the Teaching of Federalism Dead or Alive in Canada and the United States?.

Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Contributors -- 1 Natural Slope -- 1 Clean Up Slided Soil After Checking the Slope -- 2 A Fresh Crack in a Rock Mass is a Warning Sign of a Landslide and/or Failure -- 3 Carefully Observe Puddles on Roads, Gaps in Pavement, and the Slope -- 4 A Depression on a Ridge Which Looks Like an Animal Trail is a Warning Sign -- 5 Do Not Rest Easy Even If the Rain Stops -- 6 Bent Trees are a Warning Sign of a Landslide -- 7 If You See Small Fallen Rocks on Roadsides, Pay Attention to the Upper Slope -- 8 Turbid Water at the Foot of a Slope Could be a Warning Sign of a Slope Failure -- 9 Watch Out for the Valley Side of the Slope as Well -- 10 Withering of Trees Could be a Warning Sign of a Landslide and/or Failure -- 2 Embankment -- 1 Watch Out for Cut and Fill Boundary -- 2 Start with the Top Part of an Embankment Slope -- 3 Watch Out for Buckling of a Slope -- 4 A Crack and Deflection of a Road Surface Should be Carefully Observed -- 5 Watch Out for Turbid Water as It Could be a Warning Sign of a Slide -- 6 Watch Out for the Level of Water Spring -- 7 Scour Marks on a Slope Mean Poor Drainage -- 8 Clogging and Accumulated Water in and/or Around Drain Must be Cleared Immediately -- 9 Check the Water Collection into the Drain -- 10 Watch Out for Embankments Facing a River or Seashore -- 3 Cut -- 1 Cut Inspection Starts with Your Attire -- 2 Walk on the Top of the Slope When Inspecting Cuts -- 3 Inspect Cuts Closely on the Way Up and Widely on the Way Down. Walk on the Same Path Both Ways -- 4 Take a Step Further and Inspect the Backland of the Top of the Slope -- 5 Watch Out for Cuts Below Fills and Fills Above Cuts -- 6 Gully Erosion Leads to a Disaster -- 7 If You See Water Spring or a Tensile Crack, Check for Buckling -- 8 Greenery in Winter is a Sign of Danger -- 9 Watch Out for Deterioration of Slope-Protection Work.

This report summarizes the findings and recommendations of the Infrastructure Committee. The report of the Infrastructure Committee contains this committee's recommendations. Although the report is structured along similar lines as the Infrastructure Study Research Team's Report #4--Summary of Findings and Activities of Other States, this is the report that contains the Committee's recommended actions to the Governor and State Legislature.

Intro -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- 1 Background and Aim of the Text -- 2 Basic Choices and Concepts -- 2.1 Networked Technical Infrastructure -- 2.2 Science and Technology Studies Perspective -- 2.3 Key Concepts are 'Boundary Concepts' -- 2.4 System -- 2.5 Perturbation and Breakdown -- 3 Structure of the Text -- 2 Criticality -- 1 Ad-Hoc Description -- 2 Literature Overview -- 3 Criticality within Critical Infrastructure Research -- 4 Open Questions and Problems -- 3 Vulnerability -- 1 Ad-Hoc Description -- 2 Literature Overview -- 2.1 Different Research Traditions -- 2.2 Need to Consider Social and Cultural Factors -- 2.3 Major Differences -- 2.4 Negative or Positive? -- 3 Vulnerability within Critical Infrastructure Research -- 4 Open Questions and Problems -- 4 Resilience -- 1 Ad-Hoc Description -- 2 Literature Overview -- 2.1 Origin as a Scientific Concept -- 2.2 Resilience as a Postmodern Approach -- 2.3 Urban Resilience -- 2.4 Criticism of Hidden Agendas in the Concept -- 2.5 Critical Infrastructure Resilience and Disaster Risk Management -- 3 Significance for our Research -- 4 Open Questions and Problems -- 5 Preparedness & Prevention -- 1 Ad-Hoc Description -- 2 Literature Overview -- 3 Preparedness & Prevention in Critical Infrastructure Research -- 4 Conclusion -- 6 Relations between the Concepts -- 1 Criticality and Vulnerability -- 2 Criticality and Resilience -- 3 Criticality and Preparedness & Prevention -- 4 Vulnerability and Resilience -- 5 Vulnerability and Preparedness & Prevention -- 6 Resilience and Preparedness & Prevention -- Bibliography.

Infrastructure only tends to be noticed when it is absent, declining, or decrepit, or when enormous cost overruns, time delays, or citizen protests make the headlines. If infrastructure is indeed a fundamental driver of economic growth and social development, why is it so difficult to get right? In addressing this perennial question, this volume makes the case for a governance perspective on infrastructure

"The book documents the evolution of Asia's infrastructure over the past half-century and reviews existing literature on the role of infrastructure investment in supporting growth and social development. It highlights the implications of tax financing and mass transit investments on land and property values and infrastructure financing. It then examines Asia's current practices and new solutions that can help meet the infrastructure gap. It discusses the role of institutions, how innovation can foster energy infrastructure investments, and the role of bond markets in infrastructure investments. The book explores ASEAN+3 efforts in developing local currency bond markets to provide long-term local financing for infrastructure investment while providing financial resilience. It also examines the use of green bonds to finance sustainable growth in Asia and the role of housing bond markets in infrastructure investment"--

The new edition of this infrastructure planning and management resource has been fully updated and streamlined to improve ease of use for instructors, students, and professionals alike. It features global case studies and includes a new chapter on sustainability for design, construction, and maintenance.

Engineers argue that inadequate maintenance of roads, bridges, airports, waterways, and other critical aspects of infrastructure along with underinvestment have created an infrastructure crisis in the United States. Many politicians agree with this claim and are attempting to take action. However, we are faced with the issue of which projects are most essential and how to fund them. Is the state of America's infrastructure that dire compared to the rest of the world? Are these efforts to improve it a cynical ploy from politicians to gain attention and ensure reelection? This volume considers the many perspectives of this pressing issue.

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 sectors. As a result, it represents the most comprehensive reference currently available on infrastructure in the region. The book covers the five main economic infrastructure sectors-information and communication technology, irrigation, power, transport, and water and sanitation. Africa's infrastructure sectors lag well behind those of the rest of the world, and the gap is widening. Some of the main-policy-relevant-findings highlighted in the book include the following: infrastructure in the region is exceptionally expensive, with tariffs being many times higher than those found elsewhere. Inadequate and expensive infrastructure is retarding growth by 2 percentage points each year. Solving the problem will cost over US90 billion per year, which is more than twice what is being spent in Africa today.However, money alone is not the answer. Prudent policies, wise management, and sound maintenance can improve efficiency. There is the potential to recover an additional US17 billion a year from within the existing infrastructure resource envelope-simply by improving efficiency.Finally, the power sector and fragile states represent particular challenges. Even if every efficiency in every infrastructure sector could be captured, a substantial funding gap of 31 billion a year would remain. Nevertheless, the African people and economies cannot wait any longer. Now is the time to begin the transformation to sustainable infrastructure development.

Behavioral "insight" in the policy for European Critical Infrastructure Protection Special focus on the matter of compliance and how to draft the Operator Security Plans Includes previsions on what to expect from the future challenges for Critical Infrastructure Protection.

Intro -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Executive Summary -- PART 1. INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT CHALLENGES IN MEXICO -- 1. Main Issues and Challenges -- Part 2. Sector Reviews -- 2. Telecommunications -- 3. Natural Gas -- 4. Urban Water Supply and Sanitation -- 5. Toll Roads -- 6. Railroads -- 7. Ports -- 8. Civil Aviation -- 9. Airports -- 10. Multimodality and Commercial Transport -- PART 3. POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS -- 11. Proposed Action Program -- TABLES -- FIGURES -- BOXES.