by Vance Tan | Mar 28, 2014
The aim of this paper is to focus on infrastructure and economic growth links in low income countries especially in Africa and identify the challenges for sustainable development finance. The link between infrastructure and growth can act in both directions – in...
by Vance Tan | Mar 27, 2014
Infrastructure systems are large scale socio-technical systems, embedded within the society, supporting and enabling a myriad of societal processes. Understanding and shaping their evolution is essential if we are to rise to the challenges of climate change, resource...
by Vance Tan | Mar 27, 2014
Infrastructure’s fundamental role in developed economies of enabling and mediating spatial flows of resources, goods, and services, is widely acknowledged and the provision of resilient, effective National Infrastructure (NI) systems has become a focus of many...
by Vance Tan | Mar 27, 2014
The appraisal of infrastructure in the UK has developed over time to include multiple attributes, sensitivity analysis and even development pathways. The Department of Transport’s WebTAG methodology, for example, is arguably the most comprehensive transport appraisal...
by Vance Tan | Mar 27, 2014
The EPSRC funded ReVISIONS research project developed an integrated economic and spatial modelling framework for testing regional spatial planning policies in combination with decentralised infrastructure options for energy, transport, water and waste. It forecast the...
