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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Infrastructure services"”.
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A review of infrastructure services for the upgrading of South African informal settlements
… only engineering interventions are 'emergency' services provided as a temporary solution until formal housing can be provided. While in-situ upgrading of informal settlements is becoming more widely practiced, there is still a lack of knowledge and expertise regarding the provision of …
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Beyond the resource curse : mineral resources and development in Guinea-Conakry
… revenue to develop the country's infrastructure services. Infrastructures such as roads, telecommunications, water, power, education and health facilities are the foundation for socioeconomic development. The new hope for Guinea rests in the fact that after more than fifty two …
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Exploring the Impact of National Culture on Logistics Performance
… This performance is usually captured through infrastructure, services and procedure elements and understood in operational and economical terms. This thesis adds a social view to understand logistics performance variation across countries through focusing on their national culture dimensions. …
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Aportaciones al análisis y la evaluación económica de los servicios públicos en la Unión Europea desde la perspectiva de los ciudadanos como consumidores
Deregulation and opening to competition of public infrastructure services, key to European economic integration, would ostensibly benefit all the citizens, as consumers, assuming they took homogeneously optimal choices in the market. However, the European Commission is currently rethinking the …
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Urban change agents: citizen-based projects in Cape Town as drivers of transformative pathways towards a climate-friendly, socially just, economically viable and ressource-efficient urban future
… play in the face of absent or inadequate urban infrastructure services, as showcased in Cape Town, and argues for the co-existence of citizen-driven services alongside the operational utilities’ services provided by the municipality. As a conclusion, the image and leitbild of a Creative Climate …
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A theory for national industrial development presented in a system dynamics model
… resources, manufacturing, agriculture, physical infrastructure, services, technology, and social infrastructure; and (3) An outlet sector represented by a trade sector. The model's general theory of industrial development dynamics is described by causal feedback loops. A causal feedback loop …
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Critical infrastructure organisation management - An analysis of the transition to the Industry 4.0 era
Critical infrastructure systems (CISs) provide the services that are vital for the economic prosperity, security, and well-being of society. These include power transmission and distribution, telecommunications, transport, and water distribution networks, to name a few. CISs are comprised of both …
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Sustaining Glasgow's Urban Networks: the Link Communities of Complex Urban Systems
… the natural environment by conveying ecosystem services to close and distant places, through coupled human nature [infrastructure] systems (CHANS). Tobler’s first law in geography (1970) that states that “everything is related to everything else, but near things are more related than distant …
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An analysis of the cloud computing platform
… The same is being forecast for computing infrastructure. Its is being touted that more and more users will rent computing infrastructure from a utility or "cloud" provider instead of maintaining their own hardware. This phenomenon or technology is being referred to Cloud Computing or …
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Identifying best practices in public-private partnerships in renewable energy
… as a means to develop physical and social infrastructure assets in developing countries. PPPs enable governments to attract private sector investment in public infrastructure services, which would supplement public resources or release them for other public needs. They also allow …
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Transcending the Fight: Culture, Power, and Adaptation to the Information Environment
… in its use and effectiveness, disrupting basic infrastructure services, economic freedom, and distorting perceptions of what is real and what is not. Some countries are adapting to this new form of power projection better than others. Why is that? This research seeks to answer that question. It …
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Exploring the Impact of Neighborhood on State-Building in sub-Saharan Africa
… regulates social and economic life, provides infrastructure services to its population, and promotes human development, support is found for the latter hypothesis. Yet when state-building is measured in terms of how well the state monopolizes the legitimate use of force or forges convergence …
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The role of research in improving infrastructure : an analysis of U.S. transportation research & development
Infrastructure systems are central to quality of life and economic competitiveness in nations worldwide, but daunting challenges stand in the way of providing systems capable of delivering needed infrastructure services. In the United States, the transportation system, which is widely considered to …
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On Infrastructure and Economic Growth
… dissertation explores the relationship between infrastructure and economic growth. To this end, the dissertation is divided in four chapters. In chapter one we develop a structural model that helps discern the mutual effects of infrastructure, power and telecommunications, and the rest of the …
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Social and political goals of mergers in competition law: comparative analysis of the efficiency and public interest provisions in Kenya and South Africa
… and prevailing conditions in markets for labour, infrastructure services and other production inputs. Redistribution of wealth acknowledges competition law as a tool that can be utilised to protect those at the lower end of income distribution by reducing prices allowing a larger basket of goods …
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Township redevelopment in Cape Town, South Africa : transitioning from unilaterial decision-making to shared power
… and limited their access to housing and infrastructure services. As part of the new ANC reconstruction agenda, local governments are directed to improve the lives of previously disadvantaged communities -- with new planning and development efforts defined as a crucial first step. …
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Participatory infrastructure monitoring : design factors and limitations of accountability technologies
… investigates practices of participatory infrastructure monitoring and their implications for the governance of urban infrastructure services. By introducing the concept of infrastructure legibility, the three essays of this dissertation investigate ways to make waste systems and their …
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Development of an environmental health profile: Kuisebmond, Walvis Bay, Namibia (June 1996)
… issues in the exosystem, it was found that infrastructure services provided to Kuisebmond are of a high quality. An acceptable quality and quantity of water, electricity, sewage systems and waste removal services are supplied to residents by the Walvis Bay Municipality. The road and …
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Development of an environmental health profile: Kuisebmond, Walvis Bay, Namibia (June 1996)
… issues in the exosystem, it was found that infrastructure services provided to Kuisebmond are of a high quality. An acceptable quality and quantity of water, electricity, sewage systems and waste removal services are supplied to residents by the Walvis Bay Municipality. The road and …
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Reinventing Infrastructure Economics: Theory and Empirics
… under which state-owned enterprises improve infrastructure services--transport, energy, and water--particularly in developing countries. This research is relevant because, despite successful privatization of infrastructure that yielded over trillion and a half dollars in investments since …
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