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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University of New Hampshire Scholars' Repository
2003
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Online Access: | https://scholars.unh.edu/soc_facpub/434 https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-007-1054-2_21 |
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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