Hydroelectric projects are often pursued on the promise of economic development and environmental co-benefits as a source low-carbon energy. We analyse case Muskrat Falls hydropower mega-project (located in Labrador, Canada) to understand why this project failed live up its promised benefits, but instead delivered double disaster cost risk. The key concepts anti-reflexivity deep stories help us...

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‘‘Living in harmony with nature” is the slogan of the Chinese government’s campaign against the environmental crisis and has become the target of many mega eco-city projects which have emerged in China during the last decade. A number of papers in Chinese journals attribute this slogan to the government’s revival of the Confucian ecological vision, combined with western technology. This paper f...

Fear has been a fundamental aspect of human existence throughout history, and its connection with architecture evolved as cities the built environment have changed. Mega-projects, such Canal Istanbul, play significant role in shaping urban fear. Considering this fact, study explores relationship between fear context mega-projects, focus on case to define fear, identify different types (environm...

This paper presents a novel quantitative methodology for the evaluation and optimisation of the environmental impacts of the whole life cycle of a mega-event project: construction and staging the event and post-event site redevelopment and operation. Within the proposed framework, a mathematical model has been developed that takes into account greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions resulting from use o...