- Project management, Risk management, Hd69.p75 f59 2003, 658.4/04
"Megaprojects and Risk provides the first detailed examination of the phenomenon of megaprojects. It is an account of how the promoters of multibillion-dollar megaprojects systematically and self-servingly misinform parliaments, the public and the media in order to get projects approved and built.
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Contemporary, earnest, spare and classical in form.
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- earnestironic
- sparerichly built
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- First published
- 2003
- Pages
- 218
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781107050891
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“Wherever we go in the world, we are confronted with a new political and physical animal: the multibillion-dollar mega infrastructure project.”
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