"Congress has made a conscious decision that the benefits of incremental energy infrastructure outweigh the slight decrease in federal revenue," he wrote in an e-mail.
Serial frenzies of economic activity didn't bring steady incremental improvements in infrastructure, economic diversification, or social capacity.
Our results assume a single container ship, but the total bandwidth scales linearly with the total freight capacity, allowing for incremental investment in infrastructure rather than the overhaul of thousands of kilometres of undersea cables.
The report did not take into account required investments in social protection, large-scale water supply and sanitation infrastructure, incremental investment needs for climate change mitigation and adaptation for ecosystems, and changes to the composition and scale of current infrastructure investments.
It is likely that the incremental approach to infrastructure planning, which has been the dominant approach for decades, perpetuates a planning culture which contradicts the requirements for sustainability transitions, by limiting the scope of alternatives to optimizing the status quo instead of creating conditions for change.
Hence it may be difficult for these vessels to land a high quality product for the human consumption market without incremental increases in infrastructure and costs.
But, Mr. Mineta said, "the changes that are coming are too big, too fundamental for incremental adaptations of the infrastructure".
Researchers have found there is often a strong case for building relatively modest, incremental additions to water infrastructure in advanced countries, rather than expensive larger-scale projects that may be needed only rarely.
In a new paper, the researchers find there is often a strong case for building relatively modest, incremental additions to water infrastructure in advanced countries, rather than expensive larger-scale projects that may be needed only rarely.
