Global Water Transfer Megaprojects: A Potential Solution for the Water-Food-Energy Nexus?
Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2018 Globally, freshwater is unevenly distributed, both in space and time. Climate change, land use alteration, and increasing human exploitation will further increase the pressure on water as a resource for human welfare and on inland water ecosystems. Water
Oleksandra Shumilova +7 more
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Research on Safety Decision-Making Behavior in Megaprojects
SystemsThis research takes the construction companies and supervision units of megaprojects as the research objects and studies safety issues in construction decision-making for megaprojects.
Xuekelaiti Haiyirete +2 more
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The Reform of the Italian Tax System and Its Effect on the Implementation of Megaprojects
The paper identifies links between the recent reform of the Italian tax ation system, which began with the tax reform enabling law no. 111 of 9 August 2023, and megaprojects.
Marco Allena
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Megaprojects managements in Ecuador : challenges and opportunities [PDF]
, 2014 Megaprojects are described as large, complex and expensive construction projects. Recent studies have shown that megaprojects often result in cost overruns, time extensions and undesired outcomes.
Bernal, Carlos +2 more
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A Hetero-Functional Graph Theory Perspective of Engineering Management of Mega-Projects
IEEE AccessMegaprojects are large-scale, complex, and one-off engineering endeavors that require significant investments from a public or private sector. Such projects generally cost more than a billion dollars, take many years to develop and construct, involve ...
Amirreza Hosseini, Amro M. Farid
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Tax policies and sustainability in megaprojects
, 2019 This paper examines the role of taxation in promoting megaprojects in a sustainable way. Megaprojects are designed to manage public utilities and to provide better services to the community, but their implementation has often irreversible environmental ...
ALLENA M
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Ecological Transition and Megaprojects: What Role for Taxation?
Having defined the perimeter of the notion of ecological transition, the essay aims to identify what the contact profiles between the latter and megaprojects might be. In particular, the research intends to investigate what role taxation could play in
Andrea Purpura
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From Iconic Design to Lost Luggage: Innovation at Heathrow Terminal 5 [PDF]
This paper aims to contribute to understanding of how organizations respond to risk and uncertainty by combining and balancing routines and innovation. It shows how approaches to risk and uncertainty are shaped by the contractual framework in large multi-
Andrew Davies
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Exploring Technical Decision-Making Risks in Construction Megaprojects Using Grounded Theory and System Dynamics. [PDF]
Comput Intell Neurosci, 2022 Tang X +5 more
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Trends and gaps in lean construction practices for construction of megaprojects: A critical review
Alexandria Engineering JournalAlthough the rapid growth of construction worldwide, Megaproject management continually encounters extraordinary challenges necessitating the development of new theories and methodologies.
Abdelazim Ibrahim +2 more
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