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performance - affordable and efficient public infrastructure and services - remains lacking in this region - notably, in Sub …-Saharan Africa. To address this, the region itself has initiated a major, long-term, continent-wide infrastructure development … programme which is intended to fix this problem sustainably - namely, the Programme for Infrastructure Development in Africa …
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longest history of PPP delivery. Based on the results of those interviews, we develop a governance model for infrastructure … contract with private companies to finance and deliver infrastructure as a long term service to governments and their citizens …, rather than having the private firms design and build infrastructure assets to be financed, operated-and, hopefully …
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On 11 March 2020, the World Health Organization declared a pandemic of the COVID-19 coronavirus disease that was first recognized in China in late 2019. Among the primary effects caused by the pandemic, there was the dissemination of health preventive measures such as physical distancing, travel...
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complete solution is ever actually found. Adaptive governance addresses wicked problems through a framework to engage …, goals and priorities can all vary over time and by region. The Resource Management Act can be seen as an adaptive governance …, overlapping, iterative and time-consuming nature of the work involved in developing and implementing adaptive governance and …
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Factoring sustainable development into the appraisal of investment projects is a topical issue at both the analytical and the decision-making level. In the area of analysis, we find numerous studies and research projects devoted to the assessment of environmental damage and its translation into...
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sustainability through the marketplace. But there is a limit to the changes in consumption behaviour which individuals can make … sustainability. This paper critically assesses the potential of one such alternative system of provision: namely money and exchange … design, and assess their potential as new institutions for environmental governance. The currencies examined are: Local …
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the thematic areas of sustainability and business models through the theoretical lens of Creating Shared Value and the … Triple Bottom Line. A survey of 325 engineers indicated four primary shortfalls for measuring SDGs on infrastructure projects … practitioners in the construction industry who seek to link their investment decisions to the broader outcomes of people, planet and …
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the long-term goals of urban sustainability and resilience. In essence, a smart and sustainable city is an urban locality …
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Wissenstransfer zu beobachten sind und wie erfolgversprechende Governance-Strukturen zur Steuerung des Zusammenspiels geschaffen … regions, barriers to and determinants of knowledge transfer as well as governance modes for a successful cooperation between … to research and education) is often enhanced by the normative concept of sustainability. From this point of view …
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Research and innovation partnerships involving firms or firms and public research organizations (PROs) have been increasing over the last twenty years in OECD countries. In this paper we present empirical evidence about the impact of government sponsored R&D programs on firms' partnership...
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