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Author:   Markku Lehtonen (University of Sussex, UK) ,  Pierre-Benoît Joly (National Institute of Agronomic Research (INRA), France) ,  Luis Aparicio
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780367026882

ISBN 10:   0367026880
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   08 January 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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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

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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.

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