This report discusses public participation in a Megaproject Environmental Assessment and Review Process, specifically, the Alcan aluminum smelter review process. Two methods are employed to assess the Alcan process - the first, a review of related literature on public participation and environmental assessment processes. Secondly, a survey of public attitudes and concerns towards the megaproject assessment and review process. A set of ideal guidelines for government, industry or proponent, and the public to follow in an environmental assessment and review process is developed. These guidelines are discussed in chapter seven of the report, along with a critique of the events that occurred in the Alcan review process. A modified megaproject environmental assessment and review process is developed, based on the results of the review of related literature; attitude survey; and an examination of the Manitoba Environmental Assessment and Review Process and the review process formulated to review the Alacan proposal. This modified Megaproject Environmental Assessment and Review Process is presented and discussed in chapter seven. Four recommendations are advanced in chapter eight specific to the Alcan process. These recommendations apply more generally to the Manitoba Environmental Assessment and Review Process. In summary, I recommend: 1) A legislative basis to the Manitoba Environmental Assessment and Review Process; 2) An expanded definition of environment to include the socio-economic environment; 3) Financing of legitimate interest groups; and 4) A clear definition of the Environmental Assessment and Review Process. This should outline all opportunities for public involvement; information for the public on the review process; opportunity for the public to participate in the development and review of the EIA guidelines and completed environmental impact statement; and requiring both government and industry to involve the public in the review process.

Submitted by Daniele Santos (danielesantos.htl@gmail.com) on 2016-04-05T19:49:47Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Eugenia.pdf: 9158326 bytes, checksum: b202aff5f22f15faabba8f8259433931 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Janete de Oliveira Feitosa (janete.feitosa@fgv.br) on 2016-04-12T20:08:30Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 Eugenia.pdf: 9158326 bytes, checksum: b202aff5f22f15faabba8f8259433931 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Maria Almeida (maria.socorro@fgv.br) on 2016-04-16T16:24:06Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 Eugenia.pdf: 9158326 bytes, checksum: b202aff5f22f15faabba8f8259433931 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-16T16:24:48Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Eugenia.pdf: 9158326 bytes, checksum: b202aff5f22f15faabba8f8259433931 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-10-27 / As globalization increases integration, a new playing field is emerging which is driving the need for operational efficiencies and alignment of complementary capabilities among countries to build sustainable models and integrated offerings. As demands increase, companies are turning to effective project management as means to control operations and countries are increasing the amount of mega projects to boost their competitiveness and global footprint. Given the scale, complexity, political nature, multicultural makeup, and high level of visibility; mega projects rely on successful stakeholder management to effectively manage its operational, tactical, and strategic levels to execute their mission. This paper examines the success drivers of mega projects and presents an in depth stakeholder assessment of the Panama Canal Expansion mega project to identify the perceived value to its stakeholder community. The stakeholder categories include: the Panama Canal Authority, subcontractors executing the expansion project, customers of the canal in Panama and U.S., as well as the communities surrounding the Panama Canal and ports in the U.S. East Coast. The conclusion of this paper captures the relationship between the effective stakeholder engagement from the Panama Canal Authority, the perceived value of the Panamanian stakeholders, and compares it to U.S. based mega projects being executed simultaneously to allow the U.S. East Coast ports to accommodate increased cargo volumes.

This thesis addresses the ambiguous role of Malmö’s latest megaproject in the context of the city’s racializing urban development trajectory. The project is a public/private congress center, concert hall and hotel complex called Malmö Live. Malmö Live is problematized as the height of spectacle and challenge as it is expected to be the city’s most prominent cultural and social meeting place. The inquiry is directed to how its expectation of relevancy came about and utilizes a Foucauldian inspired genealogical methodology. The result stems from an investigation of the historical, present, local and global conditions that constitutes the expectancy of its relevancy. The investigation notes the divisiveness of tourism and how it affects ways of thinking and doing government on multiple scales, and in particular how it motivates the case in question. The result shows that there are affinities between tourism- during-colonialism and the contemporary tourism industry. Where the former was appropriated by colonialism and overtly racializing, the latter is allowed appropriacy by a currency ascribed to selected geographies and histories. By describing the becoming of this megaproject and the use of tourism knowledge and technology, the how-question about the expectation of Malmö Live’s relevancy leads to a genealogical reconstruction of Malmö Live as a wager on whiteness. The wager on whiteness hold no guarantees, but the power of it is the ability to be persuasive and believed, and the currency it holds for those who perform it. The thesis ends with a discussion on what is at stake with Malmö Live, i.e. Malmö’s whiteness.

This study examines the organisational architecture of megaproject meta-organisations; that is project-based organisations formed to deliver one-off, capital-intensive systems. It investigates how the organisation that promotes the megaproject - the buyer organisation - divides and allocates the scope of the development work during the delivery phase across multiple suppliers. In so doing, the buyer organisation sets organisational boundaries around its own work and that of each project supplier: effectively creating the megaproject meta- organisation architecture. We use organisation design literature as the main cognitive lens to understand the architecture of megaproject organisations. This literature posits that organisational boundaries can be understood by examining the interplay of four logics: i) Transaction Cost Economics (TCE), ii) capabilities, iii) power and iv) organisational identity. The impact of these four logics on organisational boundaries has been theorised extensively in the context of the enduring firm. Here, we seek to extend our knowledge of boundaries in megaproject organisations. Unlike the enduring firm, megaproject organisations do not operate in efficient markets, are set up to have a finite-lifespan and are highly interdependent with their environment. Megaproject organisations are also a critical form of organising addressing one of the grand challenges of our time: the provision of basic infrastructure. Yet, little is known about the architecture of megaproject organisations. To address this theoretical and empirical gap, we undertook a multiple case research. We conducted an in-depth analysis of the procurement choices for four large infrastructure assets: the London Olympics 2012, Crossrail, Thames Tideway Tunnel and Heathrow's Terminal 2. The research results in the development of an original conceptual framework that illuminates how the four complementary logics are brought to bear in the organisational design choices that determine megaproject architectures. The study contends that the organisational boundaries, which demarcate the work of each supplier, are the outcome of a reconciliation of efficiency concerns and considerations about the capabilities available in-house and in the supplier market. Importantly, this reconciliation is context-sensitive. Hence, the solution space for potential organisational architectures is constrained by considerations related to power and organisational identity. Power constraints are rooted in the interdependency of the buyer with its environment, including regulatory-political and ownership relations, as well as its bargaining position vis a vis suppliers. Organisational identity constraints relate to the buyer organisation's identity, which is both pre- given and developed through self-selection over time.

<p>There are quite a number of researches on the risk management review in</p><p>public projects especially so called megaprojects, public project with high</p><p>investment. Such effort, however, usually tends to offer the lessons in certain</p><p>condition rather than generalize to others. Our research aims to bridge the</p><p>gap by exploring the relation between the public feature of Megaproject and</p><p>its risk management policy option. Under the project risk management</p><p>framework, the case study of Scottish Parliament Building project focuses</p><p>on the stakeholder intervenes during the whole process.</p><p>In the analysis, the risks are first outlined according to the report ex post,</p><p>then we go back to examine the risk assessment and risk control policy</p><p>during the project to identify the reasons leading to the deviation. The</p><p>finding demonstrates the politics intervene has generated high transaction</p><p>cost for project manager to implement risk reduction and mitigation policy,</p><p>and the optimum way under such condition to accept or avoid the risks at all,</p><p>but not handle them. Accordingly, the thesis suggests that the appropriate</p><p>risk transfer and contingency allowance will be the key success factors in the</p><p>megaproject.</p>

There are quite a number of researches on the risk management review in public projects especially so called megaprojects, public project with high investment. Such effort, however, usually tends to offer the lessons in certain condition rather than generalize to others. Our research aims to bridge the gap by exploring the relation between the public feature of Megaproject and its risk management policy option. Under the project risk management framework, the case study of Scottish Parliament Building project focuses on the stakeholder intervenes during the whole process. In the analysis, the risks are first outlined according to the report ex post, then we go back to examine the risk assessment and risk control policy during the project to identify the reasons leading to the deviation. The finding demonstrates the politics intervene has generated high transaction cost for project manager to implement risk reduction and mitigation policy, and the optimum way under such condition to accept or avoid the risks at all, but not handle them. Accordingly, the thesis suggests that the appropriate risk transfer and contingency allowance will be the key success factors in the megaproject.

Ever since the introduction of the railway through Stockholm there have been issues regardingcapacity. Citybanan is a recently built railway tunnel for commuter trains that takes somepressure off the heavily frequented stretch of tracks in the center of Stockholm. The projecttook almost 30 years to complete and led to time delays as well as large cost increases. Usinga theoretic background of path dependence and megaproject theories the planning is beingexamined. The conclusions of this study are that the investigations are influenced by pathdependence, mainly because the Swedish government early on decided upon reserving moneyto a specific project which did not turn out to be the technically best project. This pathdependence is related to the megaproject theory that projects that lock onto a specific idea oftenget delayed. The overrun might have been prevented by comparing Citybanan to other finishedrailway projects during early stages of the investigation.

This thesis aim is to study the usage and experience of the sustainability tool SUNRA (Sustainable National Road Agency) as well as the tool's contribution to the Swedish Transport Administration’s sustainability work in the East link project. The usage and the experience with the SUNRA tool is presented partly based on the interviews conducted and by comparing the previous research found in field of sustainability tools. The ambition of ERA-NET Roads was to provide a sustainability tool that is divided into three frameworks and takes a holistic approach to the sustainability issue of traffic authorities in Europe. This study highlights areas that the research emphasizes; Sustainability work and major projects, infrastructure projects and the overall perspective, sustainability tools in projects, and communication of sustainability work. Through a qualitative semi structured interview study, five themes were identified: why SUNRA was chosen, utility usability, structure of sustainability work, organization around SUNRA and how the communication appears in the East link project. The result of the study shows that the usage of the SUNRA tool in many ways correspond with the earlier research, by taking a holistic perspective on the sustainability work and to contribute with a starting point in the sustainability work. The result of the study also shows that the SUNRA-tool doesn’t line with the earlier research when the shaping of and the communication with the tool has not been satisfactory.

The recent addition to Stockholm’s built environment in the shape of the new Slussen bridge, or Guldbron as most locals call it, has been both a source of controversy and admiration. This reaction is typical of any infrastructure that reshapes our surroundings. However, this interaction is not unidirectional. Similar projects may be affected by the very relations they might trigger in the first place. Building upon the conjunction of crucial concepts from actor-network theory and assemblage thinking, this study intends to identify the co-producing nature of the bridge as a technical artefact and the relations surrounding the project. To that end, I employ a qualitative research technique combining various methods of interviews and observation. The research primarily identifies the desired nature of the bridge and its ability to stabilize relations as a heterogeneous assemblage. Ultimately, the everchanging state of affairs or fluid character of this piece of infrastructure is discussed. The thesis concludes by arguing that the exploration of similar projects from a relational perspective challenges the conceptualization of megaprojects as taken- for-granted entities. Such an understanding brings to the forefront the crucial importance of interactions to define whether a project can be considered as ‘mega’, as opposed to employing a prescribed set of criteria.

Finland and Estonia, the two peripheral states of the European Union’s north-eastern corner have steadily converged since the fall of the Soviet Union, both bilaterally and in a multilateral European context. The co-operation is significant and covers multiple sectors of society. Now the two countries have set out on a project to join their two capitals by building a fixed link under the Gulf of Finland forming the symbolic twin-capital of Talsinki. This case-study sets out to analyse what motivations there are in creation of the twin-capital, and what relevance does the fixed link have on the regionalization process.The qualitative analysis of policy and spatial-economic documentation triangulated with media sources shows that the incentives are mainly economic, and the process is mainly driven by state- and regional level politicians motivated by regional development. The study also indicates that the rising influence of China and other global actors has an effect on the regional politics of peripheral Europe.