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From Hurricane Irma to the Grindavík eruptions: volatility premiums in disaster governance. [PDF]
DisastersAbstract Environmental volatility can inflate property values even as it destroys them. To show how, this article pairs a postcolonial micro‐state in the Caribbean (Sint Maarten after Hurricane Irma) with a Nordic welfare town (Grindavík in Iceland following volcanic eruptions) because they occupy the opposite ends of the governance capacity spectrum ...
Björnsson T.
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Applied Sciences, 2020 Compared to non-megaprojects, megaprojects are often more complex and riskier, and construction employees are thus susceptible to a higher level of psychosocial hazards, which adversely affect their psychosocial health and safety performance.
Linlin Xie +4 more
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Scientific African, 2023 Navigating megaprojects to successful completion in low- and middle-income countries is fraught with challenges, often leading to numerous abandoned or underutilised projects.
Victor Adejo Okenyi +4 more
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Journal of Civil Engineering and Management, 2021 Collaborative innovation has become an innovation paradigm to improve innovation performance and firms’ economic output. However, there is relatively little research investigating stakeholders’ drivers for engaging in collaborative innovation and the ...
Xiaoyan Chen +4 more
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Industrial Megaprojects: Concepts, strategies and practices for success [PDF]
, 2016 This is a review of a recent book on Megaprojects written by an experienced practitioner and researcher of megaprojects who has been writing about them over the last three decades. It focuses on industrial megaprojects covering mainly megaprojects in the
Sankaran, Shankar
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Evaluating megaprojects: from the “iron triangle” to network mapping [PDF]
, 2014 Evaluation literature has paid relatively little attention to the specific needs of evaluating large, complex industrial and infrastructure projects, often called ‘megaprojects’.
Altshuler A +13 more
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Review the Conflict Management Pattern of Beneficiaries and Influentials in Megaprojects of Mashhad City [PDF]
جغرافیا و توسعه, 2016 Urban megaprojects has engaged directly or indirectly different activists and beneficiaries including urban authorities, investors, developers, planners, designers, land owners, residents and citizens.
Elnaz Sarkheyli +2 more
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Models of public-private partnerships in megaprojects: the Spanish case [PDF]
, 2012 This article provides a literature review of PPP Models, where the clarification of this current confusion and ambiguity constitute the fundamental issue addressed by our research.
Irimia Diéguez, Ana Isabel +1 more
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Using megaproject performance outcomes to enhance decision-making behaviours in civil engineering graduates [PDF]
, 2019 A comprehensive review of megaproject performance propositioned the issues leading to project failure as behavioral. Project failure linked cost overruns and schedule delays to acts of delusion and deception, citing the ability to learn lessons, and the ...
Lester, Danielle, Torero, Jose
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TERRITORIAL FORMATION, ECONOMY AND REGIONAL INTEGRATION PROJECTS IN PAN-AMAZON
Revista Tempo do Mundo, 2022 The objective involved in this article is centered on the analytical effort to contextualize the socio-spatial formation and the economy of the Pan-Amazon, as well as the regional integration processes, which we can say is closely ...
Irenildo Costa da Silva +1 more
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