This article examines impacts of infrastructure development and climate variability on economic outcomes for the Amu Darya Basin in Central Asia.
As the semester winds down, Ficek will resume her research into invasive species and the social and cultural impacts of infrastructure development projects such as highways.
We develop a Financial Computable General Equilibrium (FCGE) model that analyzes the economic impacts of infrastructure investment projects and their financing options on growth and distribution in the Indonesian economy.
Some examples of projects include: researching the impact of temperature and precipitation on malaria transmission, identifying natural hazards and risk management strategies for the Dominican Republic, and researching the impacts of infrastructure improvements in rural Africa.
Examples of past projects include researching the impact of temperature and precipitation on malaria transmission; identifying natural hazards and risk management strategies for the Dominican Republic; and researching the impacts of infrastructure improvements in rural Africa.
Her work at the World Bank focused on the environmental impacts of infrastructure projects, remediation of industrial sites, carbon finance, compliance of projects with the World Bank's environmental and social policies and corporate environmental strategy development.
However, when projected population changes are taken into account, the cohesion impacts of infrastructure improvements are much smaller.
The findings in this study underpin the importance of incorporating future local population levels when assessing the impacts of infrastructure investments on territorial disparities.
Colombia announced a nationwide program to compensate for the unavoidable environmental impacts of infrastructure development and natural resource extraction and it committed to an integrated planning process for the whole Magdalena River basin.
A range of studies have been funded by PHR on the public health impacts of infrastructure and provision, such as the effects of a new urban motorway [ 25], the health impacts of the Cambridgeshire Guided Busway [ 26] and 'On the buses' [ 27], which evaluated the impact of introducing free bus travel for young people with benefits for health and social inclusion.
