1st Edition
Socioeconomic Evaluation of Megaprojects Dealing with uncertainties
- Introduction Markku Lehtonen, Pierre-Benoît Joly, and Luis Aparicio
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 Basak Sarac-Lesavre
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 Harry T. Dimitriou, E. John Ward & Philip G. Wright
4. The Lyon-Turin high-speed railway project and the escalation of commitment Thomas Reverdy and Markku Lehtonen
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 Markku Lehtonen, Matti Kojo and Tapio Litmanen
6. How stakeholder and citizen participation influences evaluation criteria for megaprojects: the case of the Belgian LILW repository Anne Bergmans and Marlies Verhaegen
7. Does technical risk dialogue entail socioeconomic valuation? The case of scientific dispute over copper corrosion in a spent nuclear fuel disposal project Tapio Litmanen, Matti Kojo, Mika Kari and Jurgita Vesalainen
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? Moktar Lamari, Jean-René Prévost & Line Poulin-Larivière
9. The potential contribution of social impact assessment to megaproject developments Frank Vanclay
10. Collective construction of social indicators of well-being: Analytical insights from an experiment Michel Renault
11. Addressing the Evaluation-Implementation Gap in Transportation Infrastructure Research with Qualitative Comparative Analysis Stefan Verweij
12. Conclusions Markku Lehtonen, Pierre-Benoît Joly, and Luis Aparicio
Biography
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.
