Sustainability and Megaproject Development

This book increases the awareness of complex phenomena relating to the critical issues and common problems megaprojects face all over the world, and to seek performance improvement across the whole life cycle of a megaproject, including the selection, design, construction, operation and de- commissioning.

List of contents

Introduction Part One: Main challenges 1. The Human Side of Megaprojects. Leadership Style and Ttraits to Face Growing Levels of Complexity and Uncertainty 2. Proposing a Sustainability-Centered Approach to Overcome Critical Issues in Megaprojects 3. Use and Misuse of Input-Output and SAM Mulrtipliers: Where are we Standing? 4. Infrastructural investments and Their impact on SDGs 5. Post Pandemic Green Tax Policies: How to Make Megaprojects Sustainable 6. The Relevance and Limits of Taxation as an Aid to Foster Megaprojects 7. Megaprojects Contracts and Pandemics: from Law to Private Autonomy Part Two: Cases 8. Insights into the Cost-Benefit Analysis of an Intermodal Logistic Terminal 9. Forecasting The Success Of Hyperloop Technology on Italian Routes: a Broad Feasibility Study 10. Bridge or Tunnel? A Study of the Spillover Effects on Strait of Messina Metropolitan Area 11. Project Management and Building Information Modelling Interactions in Large Building Projects. The Galliera Hospital Case Study

About the author

Franca Cantoni is Associate Professor of Business Organization at the Faculty of Economics and Law at the Università del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy.
Edoardo Favari is a Senior Project Manager and Lecturer at the Politecnico di Milano, Italy.

Summary

This book increases the awareness of complex phenomena relating to the critical issues and common problems megaprojects face all over the world, and to seek performance improvement across the whole life cycle of a megaproject, including the selection, design, construction, operation and de- commissioning.

Product details

• Authors: Franca Favari Cantoni
• Assisted by: Franca Cantoni (Editor), Edoardo Favari (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.01.2024
• EAN: 9781032305783
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3230578-3
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Routledge-Giappichelli Studies in Business and Management
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Economics, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Project Management, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Urban & Regional, Project management, Economic systems and structures, Economic systems & structures, urban economics, Regional / urban economics