scholarly journals Equitable Claims and Future Considerations: Road Building and Colonization in Early Ontario, 1850–1890

2014 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 156-188
Author(s):  
Derek Murray
Keyword(s):  
Construction Projects ◽  
Road Construction ◽  
The State ◽  
Community Formation ◽  
Commercial Agriculture ◽  
Democratic Culture ◽  
Waste Land ◽  
Local Initiatives ◽  
The Government ◽  
Government Of Canada

In the 1850s, the government of Canada West initiated a project to colonize a vast “waste land” known as the Ottawa-Huron Tract. Resettlement was encouraged through the building of a network of colonization roads and the offer of free grant lots along the roads. In the backwoods, where topography defied the logic of the grid, the placement and maintenance of roads was crucial, not only for convenience, but for survival. Analysing the process whereby settlers and the state negotiated road construction projects, this article reveals an emerging local democratic culture in which frustration with bureaucracy often meant more to community formation than did social status, religion, or ethnicity. In a series of letters and petitions sent to the colonization roads administration from 1863 to 1888, residents of Brudenell, Ontario, articulated a vision of resettlement in which the state played a supporting rather than determining role. While much has been written about the failure of intensive commercial agriculture on the Precambrian Shield, settlers succeeded in building communities and, sometimes, in channelling government resources toward local initiatives.

scholarly journals Assessment of delay and cost-overrun in federal road construction project in Abuja

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 1184
Author(s):  
Ashem Emmanuel Egila ◽  
Oluwaseun Abdulakeem Balogun ◽  
Saheed Olanrewaji Yusuf
Keyword(s):  
Construction Projects ◽  
Construction Project ◽  
Road Construction ◽  
Mean Value ◽  
Cost Overrun ◽  
Related Factors ◽  
Cost Overruns ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Importance Index ◽  
The Government

Poor road infrastructure in Nigeria is a significant challenge, just like poverty, insecurity, and unemployment. The construction of road in the country is characterized by numerous challenges throughout the project life cycle. Some of these challenges are project delay and cost overrun, corruption and fraud, faulty contractual process among others. Objectives of this study are to identify factors influencing delays and cost overruns in road construction project, to rank these factors base on their impacts and importance, and to suggest conservative ways to address the future challenges that can result from delays and cost overruns of future road construction projects. The research instruments include in-depth literature review, fieldwork, questionnaire administration, and interview. Inferential statistics such as Relative importance index (RII) and Mean Value techniques were used to analyze collected data. The result of the study identified factors influencing delays and cost overruns in road construction projects as; man related, money-related, machine-related, material related, environmental-related, and method related factors. Analysis using RII and MV ranked man and money related as the highest factors for delay and cost overrun respectively. Hence, the research recommends that the Government should create an enabling environment, making suitable policy for the construction company to operate.

scholarly journals Reframing Indigenous Territories: Private Property, Human Rights and Overlapping Claims

2014 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 3-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Thom
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Private Property ◽  
Indigenous Rights ◽  
The State ◽  
Human Rights Violations ◽  
The Core ◽  
Indigenous Territories ◽  
The Government ◽  
Government Of Canada

This paper considers the implications of the powerful "overlapping territories" map produced by the government of Canada in its attempt to refute human rights violations charges brought by Hul'qumi'num Treaty Group at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. The map is at the core of Canada's defense in that it suggests that overlapping indigenous territories negate claims of exclusivity over the land and therefore any kind of obligations the state may have in respect of human or other indigenous rights in those lands. Revealing the limits of cartographic abstractions of indigenous spatialities, as well as the perilous stakes for indigenous peoples when engaging in conventional discourses of territoriality, these issues have broad significance.

Compliance mediating role within road construction regulatory framework

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 209-233 ◽  
Author(s):  
Noah Mwelu ◽  
Peter R. Davis ◽  
Yongjian Ke ◽  
Susan Watundu
Keyword(s):  
Construction Projects ◽  
Project Success ◽  
Public Procurement ◽  
Road Construction ◽  
Regulatory Framework ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Public Road ◽  
The Government

Purpose The propose of this study is to focus on the mediating role of compliance with procurement regulatory frameworks in implementing public road construction projects. Design/methodology/approach A cross-sectional research design was adopted. Structured questionnaires were developed in a three-step process including generating items, purifying measurement items and validating measurement items. Variables were anchored on a five-point Likert scale because it is an efficient unidimensional scale that ensures all items measure the same thing and widely applicable in construction research. Findings The findings show that compliance with a public procurement regulatory framework significantly mediates the relationship between familiarity with a public procurement regulatory framework, monitoring activities, sanction on staff and contractors’ resistance to non-compliance and public road construction project success. However, compliance with a public procurement regulatory framework does not mediate the relationship between the professionalism of staff and perceived inefficiency with public road construction projects’ success. Research limitations/implications Limited mediation studies and examples in the public road construction subsector affected this study to comprehensively investigate and compare study findings. Furthermore, the study adopted a cross-sectional research design that limits responses to one point in time. Finally, the study missed out other participants in different organizations and departments that could have had relevant information. Social implications The study contributes to public procurement and construction management research fields by uncovering this strong mediating role of compliance with a public procurement regulatory framework that collectively would help the government to implement public road construction projects successfully. Because no single factor can reliably attain objectives, blending these factors through a hybrid governance system would enable the government to achieve value for money, increase the quality and quantity of paved roads and save funds that can be channeled to other priority sectors for economic development. Originality/value Despite scholarly efforts to establish project success factors, studies have been limited to factors directly impacting the project success without considering a mediating effect among the factors that affect the success of these projects.

National projects as a qualitatively new level of state responsibility

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 70-72
Author(s):  
ROMAN E. ARTYUKHIN ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Construction Projects ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
The State ◽  
Unique Identifier ◽  
Excessive Pressure ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Finance Management ◽  
The Government ◽  
Capital Construction ◽  
Regional Projects

The article reveals the approaches of the Russian Treasury to solving the problem of operational management of risks arising during the budget cycle, the most important parameters that affect the efficiency of the financial and budgetary system, by introducing information technologies in the activities of Control and Supervisory bodies. We are talking about increasing the degree of automation of control processes and increasing the level of openness of the government in the implementation of national projects, including those related to the creation of capital construction projects. The topic of functioning of the state integrated information system for public finance management ‘Electronic budget’, through which citizens can track the results of the state’s activities on federal and regional projects, is discussed in detail. As an effective tool for tracking control points of national (federal, regional) projects, it is proposed to introduce a unique identifier for the project result. It is important to create risk profiles for each individual project, for which the Russian Treasury, together with Rosfinmonitoring, has developed a mechanism for information interaction that allows identifying unscrupulous performers of state contracts. We are talking about the need for a risk-based approach to control, in which control and supervisory authorities can remotely analyze the object of control and coordinate their control and supervisory activities with other authorized bodies. An important condition for the sustainable development of the state is the solution of the problem of monitoring the achievement of national goals with minimal costs, without excessive pressure on the controlled environment.

scholarly journals KONSEP HUKUM PENGADAAN TANAH UNTUK PEMBANGUNAN JALAN TOL DALAM PERSPEKTIF HAK MENGUASAI NEGARA

Yurispruden ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 93
Author(s):  
Diyan Isnaeni
Keyword(s):  
Road Construction ◽  
The State ◽  
Customary Law ◽  
Land Acquisition ◽  
Legal Concept ◽  
Toll Road ◽  
The People ◽  
Road Development ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Right

ABSTRACT Problems faced by the government in the implementation of development include the issue of providing land for development itself, including the acquisition of land for toll road construction. because state land which is directly controlled by the state is limited or can be said to be almost nothing anymore. To acquire land for toll road development by the government by freeing people's land, both controlled by customary law, and other rights attached to it. In implementing Law Number 2 of 2012 as a juridical basis, the government carrying out land acquisition for toll road construction often creates problems both juridical and empirical.The legal concept of land acquisition for toll road development in the perspective of the right to control the state, must be returned to the nature of the public interest and the nature of the state's right to control for the greatest prosperity of the people by continuing to create development based on humanitarian principles, meaning that it must continue to prioritize and pay attention to private rights which constitute constitutional rights of the people. Keywords: Land Procurement, toll road construction   ABSTRAK Permasalahan yang dihadapi oleh pemerintah dalam pelaksanaan pembangunan diantaranya adalah masalah penyediaan tanah untuk pembangunan itu sendiri, termasuk pengadaan tanah untuk pembangunan jalan tol.  karena tanah negara yang dikuasai langsung oleh negara terbatas atau dapat dikatakan hampir tidak ada lagi. Untuk memperoleh tanah untuk pembangunan jalan tol oleh pemerintah dengan membebaskan tanah milik rakyat, baik yang dikuasai oleh hukum adat, maupun hak-hak lainnya yang melekat diatasnya. Dalam implementasinya Undang-Undang Nomor 2 Tahun 2012 sebagai landasan yuridis pemerintah melaksanakan pengadaan tanah untuk pembangunan jalan tol  sering menimbulkan permasalahan baik secara yuridis maupun empiris.Konsep hukum pengadaan tanah untuk pembangunan jalan tol dalam perspektif hak menguasai negara, harus dikembalikan pada hakekat kepentingan umum dan hakekat hak menguasai negara yaitu untuk sebesar-besar kemakmuran rakyat dengan tetap menciptakan pembangunan yang berlandaskan asas kemanusiaan artinya harus tetap  memprioritaskan dan memperhatikan hak privat yang merupakan hak konstitusional rakyat. Kata Kunci: Pengadaan Tanah, pembangunan jalan tol

scholarly journals Weather Anomalies and Their Economic Consequences: Penury in Northeastern Hungary in the Late 1870s

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 179-212
Author(s):  
Éva Bodovics
Keyword(s):  
Construction Projects ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Crop Yields ◽  
National Level ◽  
Road Construction ◽  
River Regulation ◽  
Public Works ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
The Government ◽  
Spring Sowing

This study investigates an episode of penury in 1879–1880 in Borsod and Zemplén Counties which occurred as one of the negative consequences of a short-term weather change which was experienced across Europe in the late 1870s and early 1880s. From the mid-1870s on, due to the wetter and cooler weather, the annual crop yields repeatedly fell below the usual and expected averages in Hungary. After a catastrophic harvest in the autumn of 1879, when the quantity of harvested cereals was sufficient neither for reserves nor for spring sowing, the situation became severe. 1878 had also been a bad year for agriculture: the severe floods in the second half of 1878 not only had washed the crops from the fields but had also covered them with thick sludge that made it impossible to sow in autumn. Since the spring of 1879 was characterized by unfavorable conditions for agriculture (increased rainfall, widespread floods, low average spring temperatures), the local and national authorities continuously kept their eyes on the crops. Thanks to this preliminary attention, the administration was able to respond quickly and in an organized manner to the bad harvest in July and August and could avert catastrophe at national level. The leadership of the two counties responded more or less in the same way to the near-famine conditions. First, they asked the Treasury to suspend tax collection until the next harvest at least so that the farmers who were facing financial difficulties would not have to go into debt. Second, they appealed to the government for financial and crop relief to save the unemployed population from starvation. For those who were able to work, they asked for the approval of public works and major construction projects from the Ministry of Transport and Public Works. For many, such state-funded road construction or river regulation projects were the only way to make a living. Third, the county administrations also gave seeds for spring sowing to the farmers. While Borsod county survived the years of bad harvests without dire problems due to the higher proportion of better quality fields, in the more mountainous region of Zemplén, most landowners had smaller and lower quality lands, and they often chose to emigrate to avoid starvation. These difficult conditions may have provided the initial impetus for mass emigration to Western Europe and America.

scholarly journals Quebec Bill 96 - Time For a Primer on Amending the Constitution

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Ian Peach
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Language Minority ◽  
The State ◽  
French Language ◽  
Common Language ◽  
National Assembly ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Government ◽  
Government Of Canada ◽  
Language Laws

On May 13, 2021, the Government of Quebec introduced Bill 96, “An Act Respecting French, the Official and Common Language of Quebec” in the Quebec National Assembly.1 Bill 96 is a multi-faceted, and fairly sweeping, modernization of the Charter of the French Language, commonly known as Bill 101. It is primarily an attempt to use the power of the state to ensure that French is used more in Quebec, that more Quebecers are educated in French, and that anyone who wants to learn French has access to French lessons.2 As there is some evidence that French is being used less in Quebec than it has been in recent decades, the government wants to act to make French the “common language of Quebec,” as the Bill’s title suggests. While a number of the provisions of Bill 96 may violate the rights of the English-language minority in the province, which is a matter that should be of concern to all Canadians and the Government of Canada, I want to address another issue with the constitutionality of Bill 96. 1 Bill 96, An Act respecting French, the official and common language of Québec, 1st Sess, 42nd Leg, Québec, 2021 (first reading 13 May 2021), online: <www.m.assnat.qc.ca/en/travaux-parlementaires/projets-loi/ projet-loi-96-42-1.html> [An Act Respecting French]. 2 Kate McKenna, “Quebec seeks to change Canadian Constitution, make sweeping changes to language laws with new bill”, CBC News (14 May

scholarly journals Improving the financing method of road construction on the basis of the life cycle contract

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 241-246
Author(s):  
V. I. Frolov ◽  
◽  
S. V. Balzanay ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Construction Projects ◽  
Road Construction ◽  
The State ◽  
The Road ◽  
Road Project ◽  
Level Of Risk

The article considers the procedure for financing of the construction of regional roads on the basis of the life cycle contract. Under the existing procedure for financing road construction projects, the main burden at the stage of the implementation is experienced by the private partner, which can lead to the risk of non-fulfillment of obligations under the contract of the road project. To reduce the level of risk, it is proposed to use phased financing of the project by the state partner, especially before the commissioning of the facility.

Poor infrastructure will sustain north Mali separatism

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Construction Projects ◽  
Road Construction ◽  
The Other ◽  
The South ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The North ◽  
Wide Road ◽  
The Government ◽  
News Outlet ◽  
Poor Infrastructure

Subject Country-wide road protests. Significance In late August, Malians in the southern cities of Kayes and Kati began holding protests to decry the substandard state of the country’s roads. Protests soon spread to the north as well, with protesters citing the difficulties in travel caused by endemic insecurity. The government has released funds for some road construction projects and promised new ones, but amid high costs of construction, the roads issue has become -- in the words of one local news outlet -- the “other woe” (alongside the security crisis) of President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita’s second term. Impacts The southern protests indicate that the south is not as untouched by the country’s crisis as it seems. Even in 'stable' parts of the country, infrastructure shortfalls will keep making day-to-day life frustrating. The government will struggle to operationalise and fund new notional regions from the decentralisation plan.

scholarly journals DETERMINATION OF FINANCIAL FEASIBILITY OF INDONESIA'S NEW CAPITAL ROAD CONSTRUCTION PROJECT USING SCENARIO ANALYSIS

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (17) ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Heru Akhmadi ◽  
Audra Rizki Himawan
Keyword(s):  
Scenario Analysis ◽  
Construction Projects ◽  
Budget Deficit ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Road Construction ◽  
Capital City ◽  
National Budget ◽  
Concession Period ◽  
Funding Scheme ◽  
The Government

The plan to relocate the Indonesian capital from Jakarta to East Kalimantan Province in 2024 requires a significant amount of 442 trillion Rupiah to construct various new capital infrastructure such as roads for transportation. This study aims to analyze the funding scheme for new capital road construction projects in Indonesia using two alternative financing, namely the National Budget and Public-Private Partnership (PPP). This study used quantitative methods with a scenario analysis approach to determine the best funding scheme based on regional economic growth and financial viability. This study did not consider the project management factors during the construction period and the quality factors of the roads built during the concession period. The results showed that road construction projects in the new capital city can be implemented using two financing schemes. The National Budget financing scheme will increase the percentage of the budget deficit to GDP in the first five years of development. The financing scheme through PPP can help the government overcome the budget deficit but requires the resilience of the government's budget during the project concession period.

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