2004. “Planning for the Impacts of Megaprojects: Two North American Examples
Recent large-scale oil and mining developments in North America have been planned to achieve positive social impacts on rural communities. We review some general issues of social-impacts planning through the resource-development cycle. Such planning is illustrated by two recent examples of successfu...
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Kluwer Academic Publishers: 281–302
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Online Access: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.401.5555 http://pubpages.unh.edu/~lch/megaproject_impacts.pdf |
Summary: | Recent large-scale oil and mining developments in North America have been planned to achieve positive social impacts on rural communities. We review some general issues of social-impacts planning through the resource-development cycle. Such planning is illustrated by two recent examples of successful megaprojects — Red Dog Mine in Alaska, and Hibernia oilfield off Newfoundland. |
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