Chapter 3 examines how the spatial organisation of our cities affects infrastructure provision. Green space is certainly welcome but is difficult to provide if the
construction of roads and buildings is allowed all over the place without any proper
planning.
Chapter 4 discusses sustainable development from a long way. Explained in
simple terms, the concept may still be difficult to apply when the stakeholders are
so many, think so differently or do not know what to think.
Chapter 5 explains that before an infrastructure is implemented, it must be
planned to work satisfactorily for a century, and some 20 years, even before it starts
working! This is one of the concepts which is difficult to get across.
Chapter 6 shows that unfortunately different fields (e.g. water, agriculture, electricity)
of infrastructure and different infrastructure sectors (e.g. technical, economic, environmental, legal) are interdependent and must be thought of as systems or networks.
Chapter 7 starts with some simple welfare economics concerning infrastructure
provision, which the technical person might well consider. How the population
views infrastructure in the life of a country gives an interesting perspective in the
second part of the chapter.
Chapter 8 expounds the different methods which may be used to investigate the
environmental impacts of infrastructure provision. Sometimes, they are enough to
forbid project implementation.
Chapter 9 deals with reliability and quality of infrastructure and approaches that
are used to ensure them. To take a simple example, it might be difficult for the
modern citizen to really manage without electricity.
Chapter 10 talks about the possible impacts of climate change on the availability of
infrastructure. Weather conditions can decrease infrastructure service quality, quantity
or reliance and can necessitate infrastructure retrofit, a concept not very easy to convey.
Chapter 11 explains the ability of infrastructure systems to absorb and recover
from the impact of disruptive events without fundamental changes in function or
structure, followed by ways to introduce resilience when designing infrastructure
facilities and systems. Another concept which is difficult to transmit.
Chapter 12 presents a three-level risk management framework: (1) before the
disaster – planning, drills and communication; (2) during the event – communication
and operations associated with the operation of existing systems; and (3) after the
disaster – assessment and reconstruction and lessons learnt for starting all over.
Chapter 13 explains the different possibilities and mathematical techniques which
exist and then proposes a simulation example which depicts what type of results may
be obtained for discussion and for decision making.
Chapter 14 considers infrastructure systems which can have multiple goals and
objectives which are in conflict or competition with one another, most particularly
when the stakeholders or customers or users may have different preferences; it
proposes a few approaches to handle this problem
Chapter 15 gives examples to show how to tackle the objectives under different
criteria, with weightage coefficients which may be applied to different objectives.
Step by step calculations are given for examples applied to infrastructure and
ancillary projects.
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construction of roads and buildings is allowed all over the place without any proper
planning.
Chapter 4 discusses sustainable development from a long way. Explained in
simple terms, the concept may still be difficult to apply when the stakeholders are
so many, think so differently or do not know what to think.
Chapter 5 explains that before an infrastructure is implemented, it must be
planned to work satisfactorily for a century, and some 20 years, even before it starts
working! This is one of the concepts which is difficult to get across.
Chapter 6 shows that unfortunately different fields (e.g. water, agriculture, electricity)
of infrastructure and different infrastructure sectors (e.g. technical, economic, environmental, legal) are interdependent and must be thought of as systems or networks.
Chapter 7 starts with some simple welfare economics concerning infrastructure
provision, which the technical person might well consider. How the population
views infrastructure in the life of a country gives an interesting perspective in the
second part of the chapter.
Chapter 8 expounds the different methods which may be used to investigate the
environmental impacts of infrastructure provision. Sometimes, they are enough to
forbid project implementation.
Chapter 9 deals with reliability and quality of infrastructure and approaches that
are used to ensure them. To take a simple example, it might be difficult for the
modern citizen to really manage without electricity.
Chapter 10 talks about the possible impacts of climate change on the availability of
infrastructure. Weather conditions can decrease infrastructure service quality, quantity
or reliance and can necessitate infrastructure retrofit, a concept not very easy to convey.
Chapter 11 explains the ability of infrastructure systems to absorb and recover
from the impact of disruptive events without fundamental changes in function or
structure, followed by ways to introduce resilience when designing infrastructure
facilities and systems. Another concept which is difficult to transmit.
Chapter 12 presents a three-level risk management framework: (1) before the
disaster – planning, drills and communication; (2) during the event – communication
and operations associated with the operation of existing systems; and (3) after the
disaster – assessment and reconstruction and lessons learnt for starting all over.
Chapter 13 explains the different possibilities and mathematical techniques which
exist and then proposes a simulation example which depicts what type of results may
be obtained for discussion and for decision making.
Chapter 14 considers infrastructure systems which can have multiple goals and
objectives which are in conflict or competition with one another, most particularly
when the stakeholders or customers or users may have different preferences; it
proposes a few approaches to handle this problem
Chapter 15 gives examples to show how to tackle the objectives under different
criteria, with weightage coefficients which may be applied to different objectives.
Step by step calculations are given for examples applied to infrastructure and
ancillary projects.
Preface
xi