In this study, large-scale infrastructure objects (bridge, building) were selected, and prevailing software packages were tested.
They include large-scale infrastructure changes – such as building defences to protect against sea-level rise or improving the quality of road surfaces to withstand hotter temperatures – as well behavioural shifts such as individuals using less water, farmers planting different crops and more households and businesses buying flood insurance.
Donor countries want to focus on large-scale infrastructure projects, instead of building climate-resilience within communities where it will benefit the worlds poorest and most vulnerable.
Overall these findings have important implications for understanding the trickle-down benefits of building large-scale infrastructure and its distributional consequences, showing how financing responds to productivity changes arising from large-scale road-building initiatives.
There have been some large-scale infrastructure projects, such as the building of Moscow City.
In the 1970s China was financing and building large-scale infrastructure projects, including the Tazara railway linking Zambia to Tanzania, which relied on 50,000 Chinese labourers.
Ma Jun, head of the Beijing-based Insthatte of Pubecaused Environmentalocalairs, said that because local governments and state-owned enterprises profit enormously from building large-scale infrastructure projects such as hydroelectric stations, they often cut corners on legally required environmental impact assessments.
DECEMBER 7 When we started the reconstruction progress in the spring of 2003, our focus was on repairing and building large-scale infrastructure... yet we found our approach was not meeting the priorities of the Iraqi people.
Nuclear power plants have become very large and very complex and difficult to construct, particularly in the west where we're not so experienced at building large-scale infrastructure projects anymore.
Building large-scale infrastructure such as the BBMRI poses a number of challenges for bioinformaticians implementing work toward the political goal, most importantly in the building of a technical platform that could successfully integrate the disparate information models already in use.
