1. The quest for value -- 2. Data-led planning, measurement and evaluation -- 3. Plans -- 4. Setting objectives for impact and legacy -- 5. Stakeholders -- 6. Who needs to do what, to what standard? -- 7. Knowing what, knowing how -- 8. Engagement : do they get it? -- 9. Full cost -- 10....

This article investigates how managers in public-private partnership (PPP) projects respond to social or physical events during the implementation of their projects, and which of their responses produce satisfactory outcomes. Multi-value Qualitative Comparative Analysis (mvQCA) was used to...

This paper introduces and assesses Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) as a complexity-informed framework for evaluating complex infrastructure projects coupled with area development. This is done in four steps. First, the properties of infrastructure and area development are discussed. When...

Conventional cost-benefit rules typically assume that the alternative to the project under evaluation is 'doing nothing' or 'business as usual'. In this note we contrast this approach to one where the alternative is to provide another environmental good or service. We show that this approach,...