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Population ageing has been going on for many decades, but
population shrinking is a rather new phenomenon. The population of
Germany, as in many other countries, has passed a plateau and is
currently shrinking. Demographic change is a challenge for
infrastructure planning due to the longevity of infrastructure
capital and the need to match supply and demand in order to ensure
cost-efficiency. This book summarises the findings of the INFRADEM
project team, a multidisciplinary research group that worked
together to estimate the effects of demographic change on
infrastructure demand. Economists, engineers and geographers
present studies from top-down and bottom-up perspectives, focusing
on Germany and two selected regions: Hamburg and
Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. The contributors employed a broad
range of methods, including an overlapping-generations model for
Germany, regional input-output models, an energy systems model, and
a spatial model of the transportation infrastructure.
Population ageing has been going on for many decades, but
population shrinking is a rather new phenomenon. The population of
Germany, as in many other countries, has passed a plateau and is
currently shrinking. Demographic change is a challenge for
infrastructure planning due to the longevity of infrastructure
capital and the need to match supply and demand in order to ensure
cost-efficiency. This book summarises the findings of the INFRADEM
project team, a multidisciplinary research group that worked
together to estimate the effects of demographic change on
infrastructure demand. Economists, engineers and geographers
present studies from top-down and bottom-up perspectives, focusing
on Germany and two selected regions: Hamburg and
Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. The contributors employed a broad
range of methods, including an overlapping-generations model for
Germany, regional input-output models, an energy systems model, and
a spatial model of the transportation infrastructure.
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