Sustaining the Future: Addressing Grand Challenges Through Megaprojects - MeRIT Workshop 2024

This book showcases the discussion about megaprojects carried out at the MeRIT (Megaproject Research Interdisciplinary Team) workshop 2024: the crisis, discontinuity, rising prices, and supply chains disruption force radical reflection for those involved in megaprojects. It raises a modern-day challenge, the creation of value for stakeholders. Indeed, the aim of the volume is to encourage readers to think more broadly, articulately and less stringently than the mainstream claims. There is a need to design, implement, and manage megaprojects by abandoning the old paradigm that leveraged solely on time and cost. We need to move beyond that by going to explore the value generated, the positive impact on people, communities and territories. Economic, social and environmental sustainability takes on a new and broader articulation: issues of the circular economy applied to megaprojects are addressed and ample space is ensured for the inclusion of social needs in current practices.

List of contents

The Shapeshifter Model for Soft Skills for Project Managers: A Dynamic and Context-Sensitive Approach to Assessing Adherence and Maturity Levels in Addressing Grand Challenges".- AI-enabled Multi-Project Governance: A Proposed Framework.- Change of Expectations of the Socio-Economic Context in the Evaluation of Mega Projects: Risks and Opportunities of Eclecticism Facing Unrealistic Approaches.- The Reform of the Italian Tax System and Its Effect on the Implementation of Megaprojects.- The New Right of Questioning and Its Effects for the Megaprojects Sector.

Product details

• Assisted by: Marco Allena (Editor), Marco Allena et al (Editor), Fabio Borghetti (Editor), Franca Cantoni (Editor), Primiano Di Nauta (Editor), Edoardo Favari (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.08.2025
• EAN: 9783031927966
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3192796-6
• No. of pages: 253
• Illustrations: XII, 253 p. 67 illus., 59 illus. in color.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences; Projektmanagement, Sustainability, Zentralregierung, risk management, stakeholder management, Project management, urban economics, Governance and Government, Regional-/Stadtökonomie, Megaprojects management, Megaproject governance