Planning for the impacts of mega projects: 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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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Storey, Keith, Hamilton, Lawrence C.
Format: Text
Language:unknown
Published: University of New Hampshire Scholars' Repository 2003
Subjects:
Resource development
social impacts
planning
Red Dog
Hibernia
Alaska
Newfoundland
oil
mining
Sociology
Online Access:https://scholars.unh.edu/soc_facpub/434
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-007-1054-2_21
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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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