Mega-projects: Dealing with pitfalls

European Planning Studies

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1023-1039

  Priemus, Hugo ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; DEVELOPMENT PROJECT; STAKEHOLDER; TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE;

EID: 77953497974     PISSN: 09654313     EISSN: 14695944     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09654311003744159     Document Type: Article

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