Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works and Transportation
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Infrastructure (Economics)
Languages : en
Pages : 2554
Book Description
To Examine the Future of Our Nation's Infrastructure Needs
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works and Transportation
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Infrastructure (Economics)
Languages : en
Pages : 2554
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Infrastructure (Economics)
Languages : en
Pages : 2554
Book Description
Precise Geodetic Infrastructure
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309163293
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 157
Book Description
Geodesy is the science of accurately measuring and understanding three fundamental properties of Earth: its geometric shape, its orientation in space, and its gravity field, as well as the changes of these properties with time. Over the past half century, the United States, in cooperation with international partners, has led the development of geodetic techniques and instrumentation. Geodetic observing systems provide a significant benefit to society in a wide array of military, research, civil, and commercial areas, including sea level change monitoring, autonomous navigation, tighter low flying routes for strategic aircraft, precision agriculture, civil surveying, earthquake monitoring, forest structural mapping and biomass estimation, and improved floodplain mapping. Recognizing the growing reliance of a wide range of scientific and societal endeavors on infrastructure for precise geodesy, and recognizing geodetic infrastructure as a shared national resource, this book provides an independent assessment of the benefits provided by geodetic observations and networks, as well as a plan for the future development and support of the infrastructure needed to meet the demand for increasingly greater precision. Precise Geodetic Infrastructure makes a series of focused recommendations for upgrading and improving specific elements of the infrastructure, for enhancing the role of the United States in international geodetic services, for evaluating the requirements for a geodetic workforce for the coming decades, and for providing national coordination and advocacy for the various agencies and organizations that contribute to the geodetic infrastructure.
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309163293
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 157
Book Description
Geodesy is the science of accurately measuring and understanding three fundamental properties of Earth: its geometric shape, its orientation in space, and its gravity field, as well as the changes of these properties with time. Over the past half century, the United States, in cooperation with international partners, has led the development of geodetic techniques and instrumentation. Geodetic observing systems provide a significant benefit to society in a wide array of military, research, civil, and commercial areas, including sea level change monitoring, autonomous navigation, tighter low flying routes for strategic aircraft, precision agriculture, civil surveying, earthquake monitoring, forest structural mapping and biomass estimation, and improved floodplain mapping. Recognizing the growing reliance of a wide range of scientific and societal endeavors on infrastructure for precise geodesy, and recognizing geodetic infrastructure as a shared national resource, this book provides an independent assessment of the benefits provided by geodetic observations and networks, as well as a plan for the future development and support of the infrastructure needed to meet the demand for increasingly greater precision. Precise Geodetic Infrastructure makes a series of focused recommendations for upgrading and improving specific elements of the infrastructure, for enhancing the role of the United States in international geodetic services, for evaluating the requirements for a geodetic workforce for the coming decades, and for providing national coordination and advocacy for the various agencies and organizations that contribute to the geodetic infrastructure.
The Promise of Infrastructure
Author: Nikhil Anand
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 1478002034
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
From U.S.-Mexico border walls to Flint's poisoned pipes, there is a new urgency to the politics of infrastructure. Roads, electricity lines, water pipes, and oil installations promise to distribute the resources necessary for everyday life. Yet an attention to their ongoing processes also reveals how infrastructures are made with fragile and often violent relations among people, materials, and institutions. While infrastructures promise modernity and development, their breakdowns and absences reveal the underbelly of progress, liberal equality, and economic growth. This tension, between aspiration and failure, makes infrastructure a productive location for social theory. Contributing to the everyday lives of infrastructure across four continents, some of the leading anthropologists of infrastructure demonstrate in The Promise of Infrastructure how these more-than-human assemblages made over more-than-human lifetimes offer new opportunities to theorize time, politics, and promise in the contemporary moment. A School for Advanced Research Advanced Seminar Contributors. Nikhil Anand, Hannah Appel, Geoffrey C. Bowker, Dominic Boyer, Akhil Gupta, Penny Harvey, Brian Larkin, Christina Schwenkel, Antina von Schnitzler
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 1478002034
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
From U.S.-Mexico border walls to Flint's poisoned pipes, there is a new urgency to the politics of infrastructure. Roads, electricity lines, water pipes, and oil installations promise to distribute the resources necessary for everyday life. Yet an attention to their ongoing processes also reveals how infrastructures are made with fragile and often violent relations among people, materials, and institutions. While infrastructures promise modernity and development, their breakdowns and absences reveal the underbelly of progress, liberal equality, and economic growth. This tension, between aspiration and failure, makes infrastructure a productive location for social theory. Contributing to the everyday lives of infrastructure across four continents, some of the leading anthropologists of infrastructure demonstrate in The Promise of Infrastructure how these more-than-human assemblages made over more-than-human lifetimes offer new opportunities to theorize time, politics, and promise in the contemporary moment. A School for Advanced Research Advanced Seminar Contributors. Nikhil Anand, Hannah Appel, Geoffrey C. Bowker, Dominic Boyer, Akhil Gupta, Penny Harvey, Brian Larkin, Christina Schwenkel, Antina von Schnitzler
B112: National Geodetic Infrastructure--Current Status and Future Requirements:The Example of Norway
Author:
Publisher: NV Bureau of Mines & Geology
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
Publisher: NV Bureau of Mines & Geology
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
Next Generation Infrastructure
Author: Hillary Brown
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781597264709
Category : ARCHITECTURE
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
"In response to the infrastructure crisis in the U.S.--brought to the forefront by the Minneapolis bridge collapse and the devastation of Hurricane Sandy--Hillary Brown proposes a new way to approach infrastructure needs. The alternative approach proposed in this volume calls for more diversified, distributed, and interconnected infrastructure that integrates (and in some cases mimics) natural systems"--
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781597264709
Category : ARCHITECTURE
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
"In response to the infrastructure crisis in the U.S.--brought to the forefront by the Minneapolis bridge collapse and the devastation of Hurricane Sandy--Hillary Brown proposes a new way to approach infrastructure needs. The alternative approach proposed in this volume calls for more diversified, distributed, and interconnected infrastructure that integrates (and in some cases mimics) natural systems"--
Meeting Asia's Infrastructure Needs
Author: Asian Development Bank
Publisher: Asian Development Bank
ISBN: 9292577549
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
Infrastructure is essential for development. This report presents a snapshot of the current condition of developing Asia's infrastructure---defined here as transport, power, telecommunications, and water supply and sanitation. It examines how much the region has been investing in infrastructure and what will likely be needed through 2030. Finally, it analyzes the financial and institutional challenges that will shape future infrastructure investment and development.
Publisher: Asian Development Bank
ISBN: 9292577549
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
Infrastructure is essential for development. This report presents a snapshot of the current condition of developing Asia's infrastructure---defined here as transport, power, telecommunications, and water supply and sanitation. It examines how much the region has been investing in infrastructure and what will likely be needed through 2030. Finally, it analyzes the financial and institutional challenges that will shape future infrastructure investment and development.
Future Military Health Infrastructure Requirements in the Rocky Mountain Region
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on National Security. Military Installations and Facilities Subcommittee
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Drinking Water Infrastructure Needs Survey
Author:
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 142890364X
Category : Drinking water
Languages : en
Pages : 85
Book Description
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 142890364X
Category : Drinking water
Languages : en
Pages : 85
Book Description
Colonia Housing and Infrastructure: Current characteristics and future needs
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Housing
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Housing
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Strategic Transport Infrastructure Needs to 2030
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
ISBN: 9264168621
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
Transcontinental Infrastructure Needs to 2030/50 explores the long-term opportunities and challenges facing major gateway and transport hub infrastructures -- ports, airports and major rail corridors – in the coming decades.
Publisher: OECD Publishing
ISBN: 9264168621
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
Transcontinental Infrastructure Needs to 2030/50 explores the long-term opportunities and challenges facing major gateway and transport hub infrastructures -- ports, airports and major rail corridors – in the coming decades.