Socioeconomic Evaluation of Megaprojects

Dealing with uncertainties
Herausgeber: Aparicio, Luis; Lehtonen, Markku; Joly, Pierre-Benoît

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Produktbeschreibung

The governance and evaluation of 'megaprojects' - that is, large-scale, complex, high-stakes infrastructure projects usually commissioned by governments and delivered through partnerships between public and private organisations - is receiving increased attention. However, megaproject evaluation has hitherto largely adopted a linear-rationalist perspective to explain the frequent failure of such projects to meet the 'iron triangle' of performance criteria: delivering on time, within budget, and according to specifications. This approach recommends greater control and accountability to remedy megaproject 'pathologies'. Drawing on empirical examples mainly from the transport sector and radioactive waste disposal, this book offers new perspectives to megaproject evaluation. Comprising contributions from leading experts in project evaluation and appraisal, this collection opens up new avenues by suggesting two ways of improving megaproject evaluation: 1) approaches that go beyond the dominant linearrationalist notion of policy processes, and emphasise instead the objective of opening up appraisal processes in order to enhance learning and reflexivity; and 2) approaches that extend evaluative criteria beyond the 'iron triangle', to cover the various socioeconomic impacts and preconditions for project success. This volume will be of great relevance to scholars and practitioners with an interest in megaprojects, energy and climate policy, radioactive waste management, urban design, and project planning and management.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 436g
• ISBN-13: 9780367026882
• ISBN-10: 0367026880
• Artikelnr.: 56744278

Autorenporträt

Markku Lehtonen is Associate Researcher at Centre CONNECT, ESSEC Business School and at GSPR, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, France. Pierre-Benoît Joly, economist and sociologist, is Research Director at the National Institute of Agronomic Research (INRA) and Director of the Laboratory of Interdisciplinary Studies of Science, Innovation and Society (LISIS) at Université Paris-Est, France. Luis Aparicio is in charge of Social Sciences and Humanities at the R&D Division of the French Radioactive Waste Management Agency (Andra), France.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
Part I: Socioeconomic evaluation of megaprojects: critical readings
2. In Search of an assessment of the future: The case of the U.S. nuclear
waste programme
3. Mega projects and mega risks: Lessons for decision-makers of large-scale
transport projects: OMEGA Centre lessons derived from European, US and
Asia-Pacific Case Studies
4. The Lyon-Turin high-speed railway project and the escalation of
commitment 5. The Finnish success story in the governance of a megaproject:
the (minimal) role of socioeconomic evaluation in the final disposal of
spent nuclear fuel 6. How stakeholder and citizen participation influences
evaluation criteria for megaprojects: the case of the Belgian LILW
repository
7. Does technical risk dialogue entail socioeconomic valuation? The case of
scientific dispute over copper corrosion in a spent nuclear fuel disposal
project
Part II: Novel approaches to evaluating the socioeconomic in megaprojects
8. Ex ante evaluation of megaprojects in a time of uncertainty: What counts
and what is countable in the Canadian context?
9. The potential contribution of social impact assessment to megaproject
developments
10. Collective construction of social indicators of well-being: Analytical
insights from an experiment
11. Addressing the Evaluation-Implementation Gap in Transportation
Infrastructure Research with Qualitative Comparative Analysis
12. Conclusions