In Our Own Backyard: Principles for Effective Improvement of the Nation's Infrastructure (Studies in Infrastructure Technology & Policy) - Hardcover

National Research Council; Division On Engineering And Physical Sciences; Commission On Engineering And Technical Systems; Committee On Infrastructure

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0309048788 ISBN 13: 9780309048781

Publisher: National Academies Press, 1994

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

Albert A. Grant and Andrew C. Lemer, Editors; Committee on Infrastructure, National Research Council

From the Back Cover

This report is one of a series issued under the Building Research Board's strategic program on physical infrastructure. As a unit of the National Research Council, the Building Research Board has embarked on this strategic program to address problems of infrastructure policy and opportunities for new infrastructure technology. The program is designed to bring together expertise from many fields and decision-makers from all levels of government and the private sector.

Edition details

• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0309048788
• ISBN 13: 9780309048781
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 128
• Editor: Lemer Andrew C., Grant Albert A.