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9780521804202

Megaprojects and Risk: An Anatomy of Ambition

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  • ISBN13:

    9780521804202

  • ISBN10:

    0521804205

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2003-03-10
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Summary

Promoters of multi-billion dollar land-use development megaprojects systematically misinform parliaments, the public and the media in order to get them approved and built. This book not only explores these issues, but suggests practical solutions drawing on theory and scientific evidence from the several hundred projects in twenty nations and five continents. It is of interest to students, scholars, planners, economists, auditors, politicians and concerned citizens.

Table of Contents

List of figures vi
List of tables vii
Acknowledgements viii
1 The megaprojects paradox
1(10)
2 A calamitous history of cost overrun
11(11)
3 The demand for megaprojects
22(10)
4 Substance and spin in megaproject economics
32(17)
5 Environmental impacts and risks
49(16)
6 Regional and economic growth effects
65(8)
7 Dealing with risk
73(13)
8 Conventional megaproject development
86(6)
9 Lessons of privatisation
92(15)
10 Four instruments of accountability
107(18)
11 Accountable megaproject decision making
125(11)
12 Beyond the megaprojects paradox
136(7)
Appendix. Risk and accountability at work: a case study
143(9)
Notes 152(28)
Bibliography 180(21)
Index 201

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