Infrastructure procurement: Learning from private-public partnership experiences 'down under'

Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 363-378

  Regan, Michael ^a   Smith, Jim ^a   Love, Peter ^b  

^a BOND UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPMENT PROJECT; FISCAL REFORM; IMPLEMENTATION PROCESS; INFRASTRUCTURE PLANNING; PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 79958806369     PISSN: 0263774X     EISSN: 14723425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/c10122b     Document Type: Article

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