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CivilEng, 2023 While megaprojects can be defined as highly complex, time-consuming, and cost-intensive endeavors, for rail infrastructures they are even more problematic. As a starting point, for rail megaprojects, their scope may, at times, alter due to some risks and
Koorosh Gharehbaghi +2 more
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Book Review: Procuring Successful Mega-projects : How to Establish Major Government Contracts without Ending Up in Court [PDF]
, 2017 [Abstract ...
Chen, Zhen
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THE CHAINMAKER: How Intermediaries Sustain Urban Policy Initiatives over Time
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Practitioners implementing urban climate initiatives are frequently faced with the intermittent nature of urban projects and the short‐termism of policy experiments. In this conjuncture, understanding how urban transformations are advanced necessitates grasping how small‐scale efforts are carried forward or sustained despite these brief time ...
HANNA HILBRANDT +2 more
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Devouring the Invaders: The Racial‐Ecological Politics of the Chinese Crayfish Trade in Kenya
American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines entanglements of ecology, race, and foodways at Lake Naivasha in Kenya. Nonnative Louisiana red swamp crayfish (Procambarus clarkii), first introduced to Kenya in the 1960s, were once viewed as invasive but are now sought after as a delicacy among Kenya's Chinese community.
Amanda Kaminsky
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Green innovation in megaprojects: A capacity-based analysis of the Shenzhong Link Project in China
Project Leadership and SocietyGrowing environmental challenges and expanding megaprojects have necessitated green transformation of the construction industry. This paper takes the Shenzhong Link Project as an example to explore the capacities required for achieving the goal of green ...
Sha Tao +4 more
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Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d'économique, EarlyView.Abstract Do discriminatory attitudes held in the public influence public institutions? We study this question within the context of the criminal justice system of historical British Columbia (BC). During the late 1870s and early 1880s, an influx of Chinese immigrant workers employed in the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) was the catalyst
Kris Inwood, Ian Keay, Blair Long
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The impact of BIM-based integration management on megaproject performance in China
Alexandria Engineering JournalWith the rapid development of the global economy, the investment boom in megaprojects worldwide has been on the rise in the past several decades. As large temporary contract organizations, megaprojects are generally confronted with performance dilemmas ...
Sen Wang, Heap-Yih Chong, Wei Zhang
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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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Developments in the Built Environment, 2023 Implementing green innovation in megaprojects is an effective way to reduce energy consumption, environmental pollution and eliminate environmental externalities.
Chunling Sun, Jingjing Liu, Guanyou Lu
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Asian Studies Review, 2023 Little is known about how legislative actors engage with social movements in framing contests over conflictual policy issues. This article investigates the case of Myanmar and enquires into how such framing activity can play out in a resurgent ...
R. Egreteau
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