"This book makes important contributions to the critical debate on how to achieve sustainable infrastructure development, by balancing the sometimes conflicting concerns over economic growth, environmental protection, and social equity. I highly recommend this publication to both academics as well as practitioners who want to better understand the wide-ranging challenges and opportunities that lie ahead in fostering effective public-private sector partnerships for infrastructure development."---Tom Zearley, Lead Operations Officer (retired), World Bank"This book offers indispensable advice to governments at all levels---in both developed and developing countries---about the complex endeavor of planning, adopting, and maintaining new, physical infrastructure projects. Contributing authors explore problems that are too frequently downplayed by governments...Their careful consideration improves the likelihood that physical infrastructure projects actually deliver what they promise."---Matthew R. Auer, Professor of Public and Environmental Affairs and Dean of the Hutton Honors College, Indiana UniversityPhysical Infrastructure Development addresses the key challenges of balancing economic, growth, poverty alleviation, and environmental protection in the development of major physical infrastructure, ranging from transport to energy. The contributions, reflecting the perspectives of economics, engineering, planning, political science, and urban design, examine the impact of alternative financing and pricing arrangements, and the opprotunities and risks of public-private partnerships. They also assess emerging approaches for restoring ecosystems degraded by past infrastructure development, and strategies for promoting farsighted infrastructure planning and protecting vulnerable people impacted by physical infrastructure expansion.

1. Rethinking infrastructure development / William Ascher and Corinne Krupp 2. Distributional implications of alternative financing of physical infrastructure development / William Ascher and Corinne Krupp 3. Beyond privatization : rethinking private sector involvement in the provision of civil infrastructure / Richard Little 4. Infrastructure development in India and China : a comparative analysis / M. Julie Kim and Rita Nangia 5. Physical infrastructure as a challenge for farsighted thinking and action / William Ascher 6. Transit transformations : private financing and sustainable urbanism in Hong Kong and Tokyo / Robert Cervero 7. Urban reclamation and regeneration in Seoul, South Korea / Robert Cervero 8. Electrifying rural areas : extending electricity infrastructure and services in developing countries / Corinne Krupp 9. Infrastructure and inclusive development through "free, prior, and informed consent" of indigenous peoples / Rosemary Fernholz