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Should we build more large dams? The actual costs of hydropower megaproject development [PDF]
, 2014 A brisk building boom of hydropower mega-dams is underway from China to Brazil. Whether benefits of new dams will outweigh costs remains unresolved despite contentious debates.
Ansar, Atif +3 more
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International Journal of Managing Projects in Business, 2023 PurposeTransport megaprojects often struggle to offer social value (SV) that meets local communities' needs. This problem is embedded in how local communities' views are captured and incorporated into SV plans through local community engagement (LCE). By
Ata Babaei, G. Locatelli, T. Sainati
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Contemporary Megaprojects [PDF]
Environment and Society, 2019 There is renewed interest in megaprojects worldwide. In contrast to high-modernist megaprojects that were discrete projects undertaken by centralized authorities, contemporary megaprojects are often decentralized and pursued by a range of stakeholders from governments as well as the private sector. They leverage cutting-edge technology to ‘see’ complex
Seth Schindler +2 more
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Megaprojects as Niches of Sociotechnical Transitions: The Case of Digitalization in UK Construction
Social Science Research Network, 2023 Transitions are processes of systemic change where niches peripheral to a sociotechnical regime accumulate momentum, scale up and eventually transform its core.
Dr Eleni Papadonikolaki +2 more
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Urban Megaprojects as Disorderly and Unruly Endeavors
ARCHive-SR, 2020 Megaprojects have multiplied around the world as an urban response to the pressures of neoliberalism and globalization in favor of development, competitiveness and innovation.
Gerardo del Cerro Santamaría
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Юг России: экология, развитие, 2022 Aim. To analyse the consequences of the virgin lands (1954‐1963) agrarian‐social megaproject, and of current land reforms. To elaborate contributions to the Russian post‐virgin land space development strategy.Material and methods.
S. V. Levykin +4 more
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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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Complexity for megaprojects in the energy sector [PDF]
, 2017 Megaprojects are characterised by their large-scale capital costs, long duration and extraordinary levels of technical and process complexity. Empirical data demonstrate that these projects experience alarming rates of failure.
Bosché, F, Kian Manesh Rad, E, Sun, M
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Iberoamericana: Nordic Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, 2021 Through the case of the Hidroituango hydroelectric plant in Colombia, this article proposes that the implementation of megaprojects constitutes a proprietary device in which the expulsion of populations, damage to ecosystems, and deepening inequality ...
Lina Marín Moreno, Marisela Montenegro
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Taming the ‘trolls’ : major public projects in the making [PDF]
, 2015 Major projects are not yet sufficiently understood, and practices in project governance and project management do not yet reflect the current state of knowledge of large, complex projects.
Klakegg, Ole Jonny +2 more
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