Infrastructure for Smart Villages / Hemanta Doloi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Doloi, Hemanta, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Villages.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (235 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, New York : Routledge, [2025]

Summary:

This book intends to initiate a fresh articulation of need-based infrastructure provisions in rural contexts. It is key reading for development, planning and infrastructure courses as well as professionals and researchers involved in international development, aid and provision in rural areas.

Contents:

Intro

Endorsements

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Acknowledgements

About the author

Foreword

Preface

1. Infrastructures, society, and community

1.1 Introduction

1.2 Definition of infrastructure

1.3 Hard versus soft infrastructures and their significance

1.4 Physical/economic versus social infrastructures and their significance

1.5 Rural infrastructures and their significance

1.6 Summary

References

2. Infrastructure planning: Contexts and principles

2.1 Introduction

2.2 Green revolution and sustainable agriculture

2.3 Principles of planning infrastructures in rural and regional context

2.3.1 Nature-based planning

2.3.2 Green infrastructure planning

2.3.2.1 Connectivity

2.3.2.2 Multifunctionality

2.3.2.3 Multiscale

2.3.2.4 Integration

2.3.2.5 Diversity

2.3.2.6 Applicability

2.3.2.7 Governance

2.3.2.8 Continuity

2.3.3 Grey infrastructure planning

2.3.4 Social infrastructure planning

2.3.5 Rural social infrastructure planning

2.4 Contexts of planning infrastructures in rural and regional areas

2.5 Considerations in infrastructure planning in rural and regional contexts

2.5.1 Sustainable development and policies in rural regions

2.5.2 Infrastructure and social capital

2.5.3 Distances

2.5.4 Population and demography

2.5.5 Resources and environment

2.5.6 Economy

2.5.7 Literacy, needs, and requirements

2.5.8 Mobility and accessibility

2.6 Summary

3. Infrastructure and economy in rural and regional context

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Economy-based infrastructure projects in rural development

3.3 Significance of the need-based infrastructure and rural economy

3.3.1 Interaction between physical and social infrastructures.

3.3.2 Linkages of Infrastructure spending with growth in the economy

3.3.3 Linkages of physical or social infrastructure spending with growth in disposable income

3.4 Poverty reduction through rural infrastructure

3.5 Effect of rural development on the livelihoods

3.6 Effect of rural infrastructures on developing non-agricultural incomes

3.7 Infrastructure and rural economy

3.8 Summary

4. Decision-making on infrastructure in rural and regional context

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Challenges in rural investment decisions

4.2.1 Social protection and social graduation

4.2.2 Social security and welfare

4.2.3 Social insurance and social assistance

4.2.4 Backcasting and community participation

4.3 Theories and practices behind regional policy and decision support

4.4 Role of local government and underlying power and responsibilities

4.4.1 Local government and rural development: A case study for Nigeria

4.4.2 Local government and rural development: A case study for Tambon, Thailand

4.5 Infrastructure for developing entrepreneurship and enterprise in rural and regional areas

4.5.1 Policies for rural entrepreneurship and enterprise

4.5.2 Entrepreneurial capacity of remote rural regions based on European case studies

4.5.3 Entrepreneurship support by developing infrastructures

4.6 Summary

5. Sustainability and infrastructure in rural and regional contexts

5.1 Introduction

5.2 Defining sustainability and sustainable development

5.3 Sustainability dimensions and underlying considerations

5.3.1 Society and social sensitivity

5.3.2 Economy and economic viability

5.3.3 Environmental responsibility

5.4 Measures of sustainable community

5.4.1 Well-being and quality of life

5.4.2 Fairness

5.4.3 Inclusivity

5.4.4 Social stability.

5.5 Infrastructure functionality for achieving SDGs

5.6 Processes of creating sustainable infrastructure in rural settings

5.7 Urban-rural share, sustainability, and sustainable planet initiatives (SPI)

5.8 Summary

6. Risks, vulnerability, and resilience in infrastructure

6.1 Introduction

6.2 Types of risks in infrastructure projects

6.2.1 Market risks

6.2.2 Institutional risks

6.2.3 Project risks

6.3 Risks in rural developments

6.3.1 Risks associated with rural development

6.3.2 Mitigating risks and underlying strategies

6.3.3 Diversification of rural business activities

6.4 Vulnerability concept and its drivers

6.4.1 Concept of vulnerability

6.4.2 Introduction to concepts of disadvantaged and rural populations

6.4.3 Addressing vulnerability through risk management

6.5 Vulnerability in rural communities

6.5.1 Climatic (natural) factors affecting vulnerability in rural and regional areas

6.5.2 Economic (human) factors affecting vulnerability in rural and regional areas

6.5.3 Effect of rural infrastructures on the vulnerability of communities

6.6 Factors affecting resilience in communities

6.6.1 Economic factors

6.6.2 Socio-cultural factors

6.6.3 Physical factors

6.6.4 Environmental factors

6.7 Resilience in the infrastructure system

6.7.1 Context-specific factors influencing resilience in infrastructures

6.7.2 Assessments of resilience in infrastructures

6.7.3 Qualification and quantification of resilience in infrastructures

6.7.4 Improvement of the resilience in infrastructures

6.8 Summary

7. Cost planning, budgeting, funding, and procurement

7.1 Introduction

7.2 Infrastructure costs for meeting the growing demands

7.3 Cost of infrastructure and cost overruns

7.4 Factors affecting cost overruns in projects.

7.5 Budgeting of infrastructure projects

7.5.1 Opportunities and challenges

7.5.2 Budgeting and capital planning for infrastructures

7.5.3 Budgeting method for infrastructure projects

7.5.3.1 Deterministic cost estimation

7.5.3.2 Stochastic cost estimation

7.5.3.3 Case-based reasoning (CBR)

7.5.3.4 Regression

7.6 Budget management and optimisation

7.7 Rural budgeting and associated risks and opportunities

7.8 Methods for financing infrastructure projects

7.8.1 Public investment

7.8.2 Private investment

7.8.3 Foreign direct investment (FDI)

7.8.4 Public-private partnerships (PPP)

7.9 Innovation in financing infrastructure projects

7.10 Sources of project financing for rural infrastructures

7.11 Procurement strategies for rural infrastructure projects

7.12 Summary

8. Infrastructure governance in rural and regional contexts

8.1 Introduction

8.2 Significance of good governance in rural infrastructure

8.3 Reviews of governance practices - A few selective examples

8.4 Data-driven decision-making for participatory governance

8.5 Smart data framework and data analytics

8.6 New generation governance framework for rural infrastructure implementation

8.7 Responsibility sharing among the stakeholders in SDG implementations

8.8 SDG-specific coordination and communication among stakeholders in project implementation

8.9 Summary

Epilogue

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-04-009601-8

1-03-262232-6

1-04-009595-X

9781032622323

OCLC:

1439032088