Urban infrastructure investment is needed for both, mitigation of climate risks and improved urban resiliency … necessary and sufficient factors to economically favor climate-change resilient infrastructure in private investment decisions … of climate-resilient infrastructure. The Paris Agreement and other supra-local policies and actors including city …

This paper cites statistics published by the World Economic Forum and concludes that there is no infrastructure crisis … infrastructure, which places it firmly in the top 8 percent in terms of infrastructure development. Thus, it is not reasonable to … argue or conclude that there is an infrastructure crisis …

The author provides a preliminary benchmarking of infrastructure performance in Lesotho in four major sectors … infrastructure performance from over 200 countries. The results of the benchmarking are revealing of several major, comparative … deficiencies in infrastructure performance in Lesotho: (1) extremely low access to electricity and its affordability; (2) poor …

infrastructure that also makes them archives and works of art. The Cultural Infrastructure of Cities critically re-examines the … relationship between the urban and its cultures. It expands our understanding of the concept of urban cultural infrastructure and … definitions of cultural infrastructure and its 'hard' and 'soft' dimensions before critically considering the vulnerabilities …

This paper analyses the degree to which infrastructure reliability and urban economic activity in several African … affected by floods. It further details how transport infrastructure is subjected to significant flood risk that … of natural hazards on urban infrastructure networks …

manufacturing. Finally, we find evidence consistent with the hypothesis that national infrastructure (i.e., transport …-related infrastructure and rail lines) can alleviate the lagging behind of landlocked regions. …

This study evaluates infrastructure investment and finance in Asia from a global perspective. It provides an overview … on infrastructure needs and the various sources of private finance, globally and within Asia, and creates a "bigger … picture" for the demand and supply of capital for infrastructure by using a simple framework, i.e., percentages of gross …

This study evaluates infrastructure investment and finance in Asia from a global perspective. It provides an overview … on infrastructure needs and the various sources of private finance, globally and within Asia, and creates a "bigger … picture" for the demand and supply of capital for infrastructure by using a simple framework, i.e., percentages of gross …