Infrastructure management: New challenges

A new perspective in infrastructure management is put forward whereby institutional arrangements and physical facilities, as well as parts of the natural environment, are systematically coordinated to serve the common needs of different stakeholders in society in a sustainable fashion. Moreover, it is explained how emerging issues in infrastructure management can be properly addressed within this novel framework. One pressing issue, for example, is how to encourage cooperation and perhaps consensus among divergent stakeholders who envision different alternatives to infrastructure developments management and renewal. To facilitate conflict resolution, a range of techniques designed for handling multiple participant-multiple criteria problems are suggested.