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Indicators, Strategies, and Rule Settings for Sustainable Public–Private Infrastructure Partnerships: From Literature Review towards Institutional Designs
Adebayo, Abimbola A. Lulofs, Kris Heldeweg, Michiel
Adebayo, Abimbola A.
Lulofs, Kris
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Indicators
Infrastructure projects
Public–private partnerships
Rule settings
Steering strategies
Sustainability
Infrastructure projects
Public–private partnerships
Rule settings
Steering strategies
Sustainability
Location research
Date
2023
Language
English
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2071-1050
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Abstract
Public–private partnerships (PPPs)-driven infrastructure projects frequently disappoint in terms of sustainability outcomes. This paper substantiates this. It develops and presents an institutional design that can integrate environmental and social sustainability principles into PPP infrastructure projects (sustainable PPPs). The institutional design includes principles for the planning processes (preparation, procurement, contracting) and outcome indicators. The paper builds upon and synthesizes extant research through a literature review that employs the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis (PRISMA) statements. The review covers the appropriateness of the used indicators for the investigation and measurement of environmental and social sustainability policy strategies designed to enhance sustainability and institutional intercalation. About the latter, a specific lens to focus on the relationships between the institutional design characteristics (the rule settings) of planning processes and the sustainability outcomes is developed based on three variables within the institutional analysis and development (IAD) framework of Ostrom. Consequently, rule settings that enable the investigation of the institutional process preconditions for sustainable PPPs and the evaluation of the sustainability outcomes are amalgamated. Our study indicates that the IAD framework provides a useful theoretical lens to harmonize and categorize process principles to achieve the rule settings that guide involved actors towards sustainable PPPs and place lenses on the envisioned environmental and social sustainability outcomes.
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Adebayo, A. A., Lulofs, K., & Heldeweg, M. A. (2023). Indicators, Strategies, and Rule Settings for Sustainable Public–Private Infrastructure Partnerships: From Literature Review towards Institutional Designs. Sustainability, 15(12), 9422-. https://doi.org/10.3390/su15129422
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MDPI
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https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14473/655
DOI
10.3390/su15129422