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Infrastructure and Land Policies (Paperback)
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Infrastructure and Land Policies (Paperback)
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More than 50 percent of the global population resides in urban
areas where land policy and infrastructure interactions facilitate
economic opportunities, affect the quality of life, and influence
patterns of urban development. While infrastructure is as old as
cities, technological changes and public policies on taxation and
regulation produce new issues worthy of analysis, ranging from
megaprojects and greenhouse gas emissions to involuntary
resettlement. This volume, based on the 2012 seventh annual Land
Policy Conference at the Lincoln Institute, brings together
economists, social scientists, urban planners, and engineers to
discuss how infrastructure issues impact low-, middle-, and
high-income countries.
Infrastructure drives economic and social activities. For urban
areas, the challenges of balancing economic growth with
infrastructure development and maintenance are reflected in debates
about finance, regulation, and location and about the sustainable
levels of infrastructure services. Relevant sectors include energy
(electricity and natural gas); telecommunications (phone lines,
mobile phone service, and Internet); transportation (airports,
railways, roads, waterways, and seaports); and water supply and
sanitation (piped water, irrigation, and sewage collection and
treatment).
Recent research shows that inadequate infrastructure is associated
with income inequality. This is likely linked to the delivery of
infrastructure services to households, such as direct health
benefits, improved access to education, and enhanced economic
opportunities. Because so much infrastructure is energy intensive,
efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and other negative
impacts must address services such as electric power and transport.
Bringing the management of infrastructure up to levels of good
practice has a large economic payoff, and performance levels vary
dramatically between and within countries. A crucial unmet
challenge is to convince policy makers and voters that large
economic returns can result from improving infrastructure
performance and maintenance.
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