Megaprojects and Risk: An Anatomy of Ambition

Flyvbjerg, Bent; Bruzelius, Nils; Rothengatter, Werner

ISBN 10: 0521009464 / ISBN 13: 9780521009461

Published by Cambridge University Press, 2003

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Megaprojects and Risk: An Anatomy of Ambition
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521009464
• ISBN 13: 9780521009461
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: very_good

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Synopsis

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.

About the Authors

Bent Flyvbjerg is Founding Chair of Major Programme Management at Oxford University's Saïd Business School and Director of the Oxford Centre for Major Programme Management. Previously, he was Professor in the Department of Planning and Development at Aalborg University. He is the author of the highly successful Making Social Science Matter (Cambridge, 2001) and Rationality and Power (1998).

Nils Bruzelius is Associate Professor at Stockholm University and an independent consultant on transport and planning.

Werner Rothengatter is Head of the Institute of Economic Policy Research and of the Unit on Transport and Communication at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany. He is also the president of the World Congress on Transport Research Society (WCTRS).