Overview
Includes problems and worked examples
Offers information specially adapted to small island problems
Explains the need for long term infrastructure planning
Considers infrastructure resilience against extreme conditions
Works out cost allocation for multipurpose projects
Describes the need for infrastructure maintenance
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Table of contents (22 chapters)
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About this book
This book explains how water, electricity/power, roads and other infrastructure services are linked together within the general basket of development and how to obtain the optimum use of resources. The emphasis, nowadays, is on multipurpose activities, optimum use of resources, environmental approach, minimum use of energy. This book tries to integrate all of these, by showing the links between the different components of infrastructure and trying to model them. A well articulated, socially attractive and desirable project may fail during the implementation or operation stage, not only from bad design, but also due to inadequate attention paid to the human aspects required for its operation.
This book is intended for graduates and practising professionals who are involved in the general development planning of their country/region. It enables better understanding, collaboration and communication with other professionals in relation to their own or different disciplines.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Infrastructure Planning and Management: An Integrated Approach
Authors: Virendra Proag
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48559-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-48558-0Published: 06 November 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-48561-0Published: 07 November 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-48559-7Published: 05 November 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXII, 683
Number of Illustrations: 80 b/w illustrations, 31 illustrations in colour
Topics: Environmental Management, Geography, general, Transportation Technology and Traffic Engineering, Management, Natural Hazards, Environmental Economics