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Megaprojects and Risk: An Anatomy of Ambition » (1st Edition)
Authors: Bent Flyvbjerg, Nils Bruzelius, Werner Rothengatter, Nils Bruzelius, Werner Rothengatter
ISBN-13: 9780521009461, ISBN-10: 0521009464
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: January 2003
Edition: 1st Edition
Author Biography: Bent Flyvbjerg
Bent Flyvbjerg is Professor in the Department of Planning and Development at Aalborg University and author of the highly successful Making Social Science Matter (CUP 2001) and Rationality and Power (University of Chicago 1998).
Nils Bruzelius is Associate Professor at Stockholm University and an independent consultant on transport and planning.
Werner Rothengatter is Head of the Institute of Economic Policy Research and of the Unit on Transport and Communication at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany. He is also the president of the World Congress on Transport Research Society (WCTRS).
Book Synopsis
A fascinating account of the problems and possible solutions involved in managing megaprojects.
Table of Contents
| List of figures | ||
| List of tables | ||
| Acknowledgements | ||
| 1 | The megaprojects paradox | 1 |
| 2 | A calamitous history of cost overrun | 11 |
| 3 | The demand for megaprojects | 22 |
| 4 | Substance and spin in megaproject economics | 32 |
| 5 | Environmental impacts and risks | 49 |
| 6 | Regional and economic growth effects | 65 |
| 7 | Dealing with risk | 73 |
| 8 | Conventional megaproject development | 86 |
| 9 | Lessons of privatisation | 92 |
| 10 | Four instruments of accountability | 107 |
| 11 | Accountable megaproject decision making | 125 |
| 12 | Beyond the megaprojects paradox | 136 |
| App.: Risk and accountability at work: a case study | 143 | |
| Notes | 152 | |
| Bibliography | 180 | |
| Index | 201 |
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