Infrastructure Development, Residential Growth and Impacts on Public Service Expenditure

Scott Lieske; Donald M McLeod; Roger H Coupal

doi:10.1007/s12061-015-9140-8

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Infrastructure Development, Residential Growth and Impacts on Public Service Expenditure

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Infrastructure Development, Residential Growth and Impacts on Public Service Expenditure

Scott Lieske, Donald M McLeod and Roger H Coupal

Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy, Vol.8(2), pp.113-130

2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12061-015-9140-8

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Abstract

water

land use

urban form

planning support systems

This paper documents the use of geographic information science based planning support systems to evaluate the effects of infrastructure development on residential growth and resulting public service expenditure. The case example presented here investigates the impacts associated with a large water infrastructure development project. The effect of infrastructure on residential development is evaluated by comparing growth trends within areas of different levels of water supply and sewerage services. The effect of changing residential development patterns on public services expenditure is evaluated with a spatially explicit model linking urban form with revenues, expenditures and fiscally efficient areas of service provision for a delivery-based public service, police. Results confirm that the development of water infrastructure leads to residential growth and also indicate this growth in some locations leads to fiscally efficient provision of a public service. A primary recommendation from this research is that, in anticipation of growth, water planning should be comprehensive rather than single issue focused. Planning support systems are indicated to be useful tools supporting policy refinement for land-use and water planning.

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Title: Infrastructure Development, Residential Growth and Impacts on Public Service Expenditure
Authors: Scott Lieske (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Arts and Business
Donald M McLeod (Author) - University of Wyoming, United States
Roger H Coupal (Author) - University of Wyoming, United States
Publication details: Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy, Vol.8(2), pp.113-130
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Date published: 2015
DOI: 10.1007/s12061-015-9140-8
ISSN: 1874-463X
Copyright note: Copyright © The Author(s) 2015. This article is published with open access at Springerlink.com. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits any use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and the source are credited.
Organisation Unit: School of Social Sciences - Legacy; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; Sustainability Research Cluster
Language: English
Record Identifier: 99449268002621
Output Type: Journal article

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