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Ten steps to sustainable infrastructure
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In this paper, the authors consider the approaches used by a number of countries that have attempted to facilitate local infrastructure and evaluate them in terms of their abilities to meet local infrastructure needs in a cost-effective manner while at the same time including the communities to be served in the planning, decision-making, implementation and management processes.About:
This article is published in Habitat International.The article was published on 1996-09-01. It has received 137 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Critical infrastructure & Firm-specific infrastructure.read more
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A ladder of community participation for underdeveloped countries
TL;DR: In this article, a tentative classification for the evaluation of participation within underdeveloped countries is suggested, based on the degree of the external institutional involvement in terms of facilitating/carrying out community mutual-help projects.
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Key assessment indicators for the sustainability of infrastructure projects
TL;DR: In this paper, the fuzzy set theory was used to establish key assessment indicators (KAIs) for assessing the sustainability performance of an infrastructure project, and a procedure for using the KAIs was demonstrated by a case study.
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Selection of an appropriate wastewater treatment technology: a scenario-based multiple-attribute decision-making approach.
TL;DR: It is shown that it is difficult to select the mostappropriate wastewater treatment alternative under the "no scenario" condition, and the decision-making methodology presented in this paper effectively identifies the most appropriate wastewater treatmentAlternative for each of the scenarios.
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Precipitation extremes and the impacts of climate change on stormwater infrastructure in Washington State
Eric A. Rosenberg,Patrick W. Keys,Derek B. Booth,David M. Hartley,Jeff Burkey,Anne Steinemann,Dennis P. Lettenmaier +6 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined both historical precipitation records and simulations of future rainfall to evaluate past and prospective changes in the probability distributions of precipitation extremes across Washington State, based on hourly precipitation records for the time period 1949-2007 from weather stations in and near the state’s three major metropolitan areas.
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Urban Governance Voice and Poverty in the Developing World
TL;DR: In this paper, urban poverty and governance in an era of Globalization, Decentralization and Democratization are discussed. But, the focus is on the informal sector and not on the urban poor.
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Informal Income Opportunities and Urban Employment in Ghana
TL;DR: In this article, the authors studied the economic activities of the low-income section of the labour force in Accra, the urban sub-proletariat into which the unskilled and illiterate majority of Frafra migrants are drawn.
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Employment, Incomes and Equality. A Strategy for Increasing Productive Employment in Kenya
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Third generation NGO strategies: A key to people-centered development
TL;DR: The types of reform indicated involve complex organizational changes that the large official donors have little capability to address as mentioned in this paper, and the central leadership role must be assumed by organizations with the potential to serve as catalysts of institutional and policy change.
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