Infrastructure

institutions factor into competitiveness but how these institutions emerge, how social capital is built, and how cooperation are more nuanced considerations when thinking about institutions and competitiveness. • “Hard connectivity”/ physical capital (infrastructure, transport, telecommunications) The quality of physical capital highly correlates with the competitiveness of a city. Hard connectivity connects people to energy, water, communications, etc. and therefore allows people to capitalize…

Mitigation strategies further reduce disruption of critical services, risk to human life, and damage to personal and public property, and infrastructure. Action items throughout the hazard sections provide recommendations to collect further data, mapping of hazard locations, and conduct hazard assessments. Critical Facilities and Infrastructure Facilities critical to government response and recovery activities (i.e., life safety and property and environmental protection) include 911 centers…

financing is that no public vote is needed. Many states require votes on various sorts of bond issuance for public functions. every other gain selection-makers see is they can adhere to their "no new taxes" pledges and nevertheless provide extra infrastructure for the network. risks of Tax Increment Financing TIF appears to be becoming increasingly more popular, and an increasing number of abused. So like any other monetary improvement technique, it is able to be a present or a burden to the…

At the user level cyber-attacks begin according to Eddolls (2016) Therefore, it stands to reason why cyber security awareness is the front line defense in any security infrastructure. What the literature review here does is demonstrates that while security infrastructures exist, it is that there are serious problems that only heightened awareness mitigates. Qualitative case studies on the topic of cyber security highlight the need for further research in the area of…

Our economy the engine of jobs and prosperity could be brought to its knees by a well-placed terrorist attack. And, for the first time in our nation’s history, its economic assets and infrastructure were on the front lines of a battlefield: key targets and even pathways for attack. By the same token, however, the economy could suffer an equally damaging blow from excessive security measures that stifled productivity and slowed commerce. The…

There are generalized ideas about why a nation succeeds or fails but they are just that, generalized ideas. The intelligence of a nation has nothing to do with its GDP, and its success is not determined by its culture or geography. Explaining away the differences in two nations, like North and South Korea, that are side-by-side and were once a single nation by geography and culture simply does not work. What does explain the differences in nations, however, is the political and economic…

In 1652, Dutch traders founded Cape Town, South Africa when establishing a stopover point between the Netherlands and the Far East. In 1896, countless of Dutch immigrants made their way up north to find their own land after the British seized the Cape of Good Hope area. The Dutch settlers were known as Afrikaners, or Boers (farmers) to the British. When diamonds were discovered in 1867 and gold in 1886, they encouraged wealth and immigration while increasing suppression to the native population.…

Every year, the Earth is rocked by thousands of earthquakes that causes damage ranging from non-existent to severe. These severe earthquakes can cause major damage to the cities ' buildings and infrastructure around the world, but more importantly many innocent people are injured and killed in these disasters. On average, 13 300 people are killed and over 4 million people are affected each year as a result of earthquakes. Also, earthquakes costs the world economy US$12,106,198,000 per year on…

to sink slowly over decades, but recently the more extensive pumping has caused the groundwater levels to quickly reach dangerous lows. This has resulted in the land to sink at a rapid rate, putting a large section of California’s aboveground infrastructure at risk. NASA was able to discover this notable difference in land height through radar observation from satellites and aircrafts that have made maps over time to show the sinking. These accurate measurements have shown that some parts of…

Daintree. After World War 2, Australia’s economy began to grow larger and more people wanted timber. Numerous timber mills were built to log trees from the Daintree and transport People build infrastructure to make things more rapid and cheaper. Not only did logging become more rapid but this infrastructure also polluted the are which contributed to greater carbon based pollutants in the biosphere and hydrosphere in the surrounding area. Mining Mining is another threat, although has not yet…