Structural Alternatives in Procurement of Gazprom Infrastructure Projects

Inclusion of Health in Environmental Impact Assessment of Major Transport Infrastructure Projects in Vietnam

Background Infrastructure spending, especially in the transport sector, is expected to increase rapidly in Vietnam. This boost in transportation investment impacts health. Environmental impact assessments (EIAs) are essential tools for decision-making to reduce and mitigate anticipated impacts of development projects, and integration of health assessment as an essential part of the EIA process ...

Development and design of large infrastructure projects: disregarded alternatives and issues of spatial planning

The Dutch Parliamentary Commission on Infrastructural Projects has conducted a parliamentary inquiry into the decisionmaking process and implementation control in two major infrastructural projects: the Betuwe Freight Line between Rotterdam and Germany, and the HSL^Zuidö the high-speed rail link which will connect Amsterdam with Belgium and France. The commission proposes a new assessment frame...

Labour-based infrastructure projects

Including Health in Environmental Assessments of Major Transport Infrastructure Projects: A Documentary Analysis

Background Transport policy and practice impacts health. Environmental Impact Assessments (EIAs) are regulated public policy mechanisms that can be used to consider the health impacts of major transport projects before they are approved. The way health is considered in these environmental assessments (EAs) is not well known. This research asked: How and to what extent was human health considere...

Collaborative Infrastructure Formation in Virtual Projects

In this paper, we discuss the concept of collaborative IT infrastructure. Based on data from our own research plus case studies from the literature we propose a framework for the implementation of such infrastructure at the level of hardware, software, and protocols or guidelines on how to manage such projects. This framework is applied to a typology of projects including four dimensions: numbe...