Public Private Partnership to Brownfield Remediation Projects in China: A Combined Risk Evaluation Approach
Brownfields have been receiving significant attention all over the world because of their potential threats to the environment and public health. However, a funding shortage constitutes the main obstacle to the brownfield remediation (BR). In China, to ease financial dilemmas, the governments seek c...
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| description | Brownfields have been receiving significant attention all over the world because of their potential threats to the environment and public health. However, a funding shortage constitutes the main obstacle to the brownfield remediation (BR). In China, to ease financial dilemmas, the governments seek collaborations with private-sector companies, i.e., the Public Private Partnership (PPP) mode. Despite all the benefits, BR and PPP contain high risks, making stakeholders extremely cautious about investing in such projects. To support the decision-making process of the public and private parties, this paper designs a comprehensive approach to evaluate the risks of BR PPP projects in China. In more detail, several commonly used risk methods, such as TOPSIS, GRE, and FSE, are employed to construct a combined risk evaluation process, which applies multiple combined evaluation techniques to iteratively integrate individual results from those methods until a valid common result is achieved. To show the practical implementation procedure of the proposed combined approach, a hypothetical case study is performed to assess the risks of seven BR PPP projects. The analytical process also verifies that the consistency and reliability of the risk evaluation result can be achieved effectively and efficiently by jointly deploying multiple risk methods through combined techniques. The proposed decision framework facilitates a novel research idea in evaluating complicated risk situations, and can be applied to other similar scenarios where uncertainties and inconsistencies are inevitable. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-be6bcc6fa89644ca8f9279211910e1312024-01-26T17:19:54ZengMDPI AGLand2073-445X2024-01-011315610.3390/land13010056Public Private Partnership to Brownfield Remediation Projects in China: A Combined Risk Evaluation ApproachQingye Han0Yan Qin1Heng Zhang2Ginger Y. Ke3School of Management Science and Real Estate, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400044, ChinaSchool of Management Science and Real Estate, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400044, ChinaSchool of Management Science and Real Estate, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400044, ChinaFaculty of Business Administration, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, NL A1B 3X5, CanadaBrownfields have been receiving significant attention all over the world because of their potential threats to the environment and public health. However, a funding shortage constitutes the main obstacle to the brownfield remediation (BR). In China, to ease financial dilemmas, the governments seek collaborations with private-sector companies, i.e., the Public Private Partnership (PPP) mode. Despite all the benefits, BR and PPP contain high risks, making stakeholders extremely cautious about investing in such projects. To support the decision-making process of the public and private parties, this paper designs a comprehensive approach to evaluate the risks of BR PPP projects in China. In more detail, several commonly used risk methods, such as TOPSIS, GRE, and FSE, are employed to construct a combined risk evaluation process, which applies multiple combined evaluation techniques to iteratively integrate individual results from those methods until a valid common result is achieved. To show the practical implementation procedure of the proposed combined approach, a hypothetical case study is performed to assess the risks of seven BR PPP projects. The analytical process also verifies that the consistency and reliability of the risk evaluation result can be achieved effectively and efficiently by jointly deploying multiple risk methods through combined techniques. The proposed decision framework facilitates a novel research idea in evaluating complicated risk situations, and can be applied to other similar scenarios where uncertainties and inconsistencies are inevitable.https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/13/1/56brownfieldpublic private partnershiprisk assessmentcombined evaluation |
| spellingShingle | Qingye Han Yan Qin Heng Zhang Ginger Y. Ke Public Private Partnership to Brownfield Remediation Projects in China: A Combined Risk Evaluation Approach Land brownfield public private partnership risk assessment combined evaluation |
| title | Public Private Partnership to Brownfield Remediation Projects in China: A Combined Risk Evaluation Approach |
| title_full | Public Private Partnership to Brownfield Remediation Projects in China: A Combined Risk Evaluation Approach |
| title_fullStr | Public Private Partnership to Brownfield Remediation Projects in China: A Combined Risk Evaluation Approach |
| title_full_unstemmed | Public Private Partnership to Brownfield Remediation Projects in China: A Combined Risk Evaluation Approach |
| title_short | Public Private Partnership to Brownfield Remediation Projects in China: A Combined Risk Evaluation Approach |
| title_sort | public private partnership to brownfield remediation projects in china a combined risk evaluation approach |
| topic | brownfield public private partnership risk assessment combined evaluation |
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