Infrastructure development through PPPs in India: criteria for sustainability assessment
Autor: | Tharun Dolla, Boeing Laishram, Nilesh Agarchand Patil |
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Rok vydání: | 2015 |
Předmět: |
Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes
Sustainable development Finance Economic growth Leverage (finance) business.industry Geography Planning and Development 0211 other engineering and technologies Questionnaire 02 engineering and technology 010501 environmental sciences Management Monitoring Policy and Law Private sector 01 natural sciences Private capital 021105 building & construction Sustainability Financial sustainability Procurement process business 0105 earth and related environmental sciences General Environmental Science Water Science and Technology |
Zdroj: | Journal of Environmental Planning and Management. 59:708-729 |
ISSN: | 1360-0559 0964-0568 |
DOI: | 10.1080/09640568.2015.1038337 |
Popis: | Public private partnerships (PPPs) allow the Indian Government to leverage private capital for meeting the widening demand-supply gap in the provision of infrastructure services. The private sector, however, prefers to limit the participation to financially attractive projects only, thereby resulting in patterns of infrastructure creation impeding the progress towards sustainable development. In order to promote sustainable development, the PPP procurement process should focus on incentivising the private sector for sustainable infrastructure development rather than concentrating on ensuring financial sustainability only. This paper discusses the principles-based PPP-specific framework that has been developed to facilitate assessment of PPP projects' progress towards sustainable development. The framework development was based on a holistic approach to sustainability assessment and subsequently validated through questionnaire survey with key stakeholders in the Indian PPP programme. This framework will pr... |
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