Tending the infrastructure commons: Ensuring the sustainability of our vital public systems
Tending the infrastructure commons: Ensuring the sustainability of our vital public systems
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照顾基础设施公地：确保我们重要公共系统的可持续性
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2005
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The Keston
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R. Little;The Keston
人们现在普遍认识到，民用基础设施系统对于提供一般认为是支持一个国家的经济福利和生活质量所必需的一系列服务至关重要。因此，对于政府、企业和普通民众来说，通过定期补充提供这些服务的物理系统来长期维持这些服务至关重要。事实证明，这具有挑战性，原因有几个。首先，民用基础设施并非都属于公共领域。其次，基础设施是复杂的系统，由于其相互关联和相互依赖的性质，容易受到其他系统故障或服务降级的影响。第三，尽管可靠和有弹性的系统对我们集体的社会、经济和政治福祉具有明显的重要性，但很难为必要的维护和资本改进提供资金。决定应该提供什么级别的可靠性以及谁应该为此付费并不是服务提供商、客户或政府监管机构单独解决的简单问题。本文将提出基础设施公地的概念，并建议联邦政府可以采取的一些初步行动，以确保国家的“公共利益”方面的民事保护和加强。这些行动包括在公共和私营部门之间开始进行知情和认真的对话，在治理进程中建立利益攸关方行动联盟，并探讨确保可靠和可持续资源流的替代机制。
It is by now well recognized that civil infrastructure systems are essential in providing the range of services generally considered necessary to support a nation's economic well-being and quality of life. Consequently, it is of the utmost importance to government, business, and the general populace that these services are sustained over the long term by periodic replenishment of the physical systems that deliver them. This has proven challenging for several reasons. First, civil infrastructures do not all lie within the public domain. Second, infrastructures are complex systems that are vulnerable to failures or service degradations in other systems because of their interconnected and interdependent natures. Third, despite the obvious importance of reliable and resilient systems to our collective social, economic, and political well-being, it has been difficult to fund the necessary maintenance and capital improvements. Deciding what levels of reliability should be provided and who should pay for it are not simple questions to be addressed solely by service providers, customers, or government regulators. This paper will present the concept of an infrastructure commons and recommend some initial actions that the federal government could take to ensure that the national ‘public good’ aspect of civil is preserved and enhanced. These actions include the beginning of an informed and serious dialogue between the public and private sectors, building coalitions for action among stakeholders in the governance process, and exploring alternative mechanisms for ensuring dependable and sustainable resource streams.