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... 40 GLOSSARY OF TERMS AND ACRONYMS TERMS Abandonment is the act of relinquishing an asset entirely and regarding the infrastructure investment as a "sunk cost" with the possible exception of the salvage value of the land. Adaptive re-use is a tactic of redesigning or redesignating a piece of infrastructure formerly used for one purpose so that it can be used for a different purpose (at a lower cost)
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... 41 Passive disinvestment. A policy choice (or series of policy choices)

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