Decision-Making On Mega-Projects
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Decision-Making On Mega-Projects

Author: Hugo Priemus , Bent Flyvbjerg, Bert van Wee

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This book offers a refreshing and fascinating look at mega-projects from the perspective of public evaluation and planning. With the changing role of the public sector in planning and implementing large-scale projects and a subsequent strong emergence of private-public modes of operation, mega-projects have become a problematic phenomenon. This volume is a major source of information and reference. It provides the reader with unique insights and caveats in mega-projects planning.'- Peter Nijkamp, Free University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands'Building on the seminal work of Bent Flyvbjerg, this book is a collection of expert contributions that will prove essential to anyone wanting to understand why mega-projects go wrong and how they can be made to work better.

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