Society heavily depends on infrastructure systems, such as road-traffic networks, water networks, electricity networks …, etc. Infrastructure systems are hereby considered to be large-scale, networked systems, that almost everybody uses on a …

Part 1 - Next Generation E-Government Information and Service Infrastructure -- Future Citizen Portals -- Citizen Led e … cities from different parts of the world …

-based allocation of infrastructure costs to business processes or users is often not possible as the necessary resource consumption …

Agricultural Formations: Information and Analytical Support -- chapter 16: Problems and Perspectives of Transport Humanization …

: Toward an Improved Measure of Macroeconomic Well-Being -- 3. Funding Infrastructure and Local Economic Development: A Public …

Roberto Grasso -- Chapter 9. Competition, Intellectual Property Rights and Collaboratively Set Standards: Federal Trade …, particularly in the information and communications technology (ICT) sector, the complexities and contradictions at the interface of … dynamics in the ICT sector. This book includes discussions on fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory (FRAND) licensing terms …

regulation and renewable energy innovation -- Environmental regulation and renewable energy exports. . … competitiveness in renewable energy equipment based on a large sample of 225 developed and developing countries from 1990 to 2012. The … carbon trading regimes. Moreover, the data show that early adopters of renewable energy support policies benefit most …

Preface -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Theory of Trade Agreements and Economic Integration, Size of Economics, Trade Costs … Impact of Trade Costs on Trade Flows and Welfare: Country Size and PTA Implications -- 5 A Cross-Section Analysis of Size … Classification and the Effects of Preferential Trade Agreements -- 6 A Panel data Analysis of Size Classification and the Effects of …

infrastructure and other public investments of a similar scope (“mega-projects”) reflect public sector priorities and objectives, non … public sector with respect to transportation infrastructure investments are affected by the large populations and territories …1. Introduction -- 2. Infrastructure Needs and Reality -- 3. The Dubious Status of Formal Project Evaluation Procedures …

global financial future. The contributors argue that our world cannot move toward sustainability, address climate change … the worldwide, supranational sustainable finance discussions about how we can transition to a new socio-ecological system … where finance, human well-being, and planetary health are recognized as being highly intertwined …