Cities for our grandchildren: responsibility towards future generations in PPP projects

Antimicrobial drug resistance threat: our duty towards future generations.

1Assistant-Director General, Health Security and Environment, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland ([email protected]). Since their availability in the 1940s, antimicrobial drugs have been a miracle. For example, penicillin reduced death rates among patients with pneumonia and bacteraemia from approximately 90% to 10%. Seventy years later, however, increasing levels of antimicrobial res...

IISG Projects - Water for Our Future

For more than 100 years, the wetland sediments at the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore (IDNL) and adjacent Indiana Dunes State Park have received atmospheric input of trace metals from industrial sources located upwind and to the west. The objective of this study was to document the extent and magnitude of this trace metal pollution both aerially and with depth within the IDNL, and to identify ...

Harnessing opportunities and taking responsibility for our future.

As I start my presidential address today, I want the AOTA [American Occupational Therapy Association]—which is you, the member—to hold your leadership to a high level of accountability. Last year I stated some goals. Today I want to highlight some of the accomplishments. I would like to attribute most of these accomplishments to our very, very talented staff. To begin, would all the National Of...

A Moderate Consequentialist Account of our Obligations to Future Generations

Structuring Equity Investment in Ppp Projects

Earlier studies have established guidelines to optimize the capital structure of a privatized project. However, in the US, many Public-Private Partnership (PPP) projects may not be fully self-financed through toll or other operating revenues due to insufficient revenue streams. With the limited debt capacity secured by toll revenues, most PPP projects must be backed by both private equity inves...