The governance of energy megaprojects: politics, hubris and energy security
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Beteilige Person: Sovacool, Benjamin K. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Cheltenham Edward Elgar Pub. Ltd 2013
Schriftenreihe:Edward Elgar E-Book Archive
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Links:https://doi.org/10.4337/9781781952542
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781781952542
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781781952542
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781781952542
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781781952542
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781781952542
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781781952542
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781781952542
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781781952542
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781781952542
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781781952542
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781781952542
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781781952542
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781781952542
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781781952542
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781781952542
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781781952542
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781781952542
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781781952542
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781781952542
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781781952542
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781781952542
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781781952542
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781781952542
Abstract:1. Introduction -- 2. Understanding why energy megaprojects fail -- 3. The Trans-ASEAN Gas Pipeline Network (TAGP) -- 4. The Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) oil pipeline -- 5. The Sarawak Corridor of Renewable Energy (SCORE) -- 6. The Gobitec solar array -- 7. Conclusions : bigger is blunder
Benjamin Sovacool and Christopher Jon Cooper have produced an astonishing and well-written book, based on extensive original research in twelve countries. They explore the technical, social, political and economic dimensions of four energy megaprojects. The large scale of megaprojects always appears to complicate the decision-making process and often causes failures. Megaprojects may even reinforce corruption and erode democracy. It highlights that todays experiences can be explained by statements by Aristotle and Einstein who argue, both in their own way, that is always wise to take the limits of size into account and to reduce the size of projects, wherever this is possible.
For everybody involved in megaprojects, this book must be read! Hugo Priemus, Delft University of Technology, The NetherlandsBased on extensive original research, this book explores the technical, social, political, and economic dimensions of four Asian energy megaprojects: a regional natural gas pipeline network in Southeast Asia, a series of hydroelectric dams on the island of Borneo, an oil pipeline linking Europe with the Caspian Sea, and a very large solar energy array in the Gobi desert.This book investigates why energy megaprojects fail to deliver their promised benefits. It offers the first comprehensive assessment of the complicated dynamics driving and constraining megaprojects initiated in the rapid scramble for energy resources and efforts to improve energy security.
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Umfang:1 Online-Ressource (viii, 251 Seiten) ill., maps
ISBN:9781781952542
DOI:10.4337/9781781952542