In Our Own Backyard: Principles for Effective Improvement of the Nation's Infrastructure

Committee on Infrastructure,National Research Council,National Academy of Sciences

In Our Own Backyard: Principles for Effective Improvement of the Nation's Infrastructure
Format
Hardback
Publisher
National Academies Press
Country
United States
Published
15 January 1994
Pages
128
ISBN
9780309048781

In Our Own Backyard: Principles for Effective Improvement of the Nation’s Infrastructure

Committee on Infrastructure,National Research Council,National Academy of Sciences

This volume takes a fresh look - primarily from a technological perspective - at the nation’s infrastructure : a collection of diverse modes that function as a system supporting a wide range of economic and social activities. Within an infrastructure system, operating and maintenance procedures, management practices, and development policies (i.e., the software) must work together with the facilities’ hardware. This study has a strongly local perspective, drawing valuable information from workshops held in Phoenix, Cincinnati, and Boston. These workshops illustrated common elements of local experience that offer infrastructure practitioners, policymakers, and the public at large both understanding and guidance in the form of specific strategies that can lead toward win-win situations, where parties with potentially opposing interests seek a way to resolve infrastructure issues so that all parties gain. Local issues, combined across many regions, give infrastructure its strategic national significance. The book recommends specific principles that should be applied in national policy to support effective local infrastructure development and management.

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