Overview
Critically assesses prevailing approaches to mega project management
Presents insights that will improve the delivery of large infrastructure projects
Synthesises analyses of key case studies from Germany
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Table of contents(6 chapters)
Keywords
- Urban Sociology
- Architecture
- Geography
- Human Geography
- Planning
- Central Europe
- Infrastructure
- Brandenburg Airport
- Berlin
- European Commission
- infrastructure assets
- Hamburg Elbphilharmonie
- offshore wind parks
- energy governance
- management
- time delays
- Infrastructure governance
- public-private partnership
- megaprojects
- PPP
About this book
The contributions to this volume demonstrate various patterns for infrastructure assets and illustrate how factors such as poor project governance, early planning mistakes, inappropriate risk management and unforeseen technological challenges influence delivery. The in-depth case studies on the Berlin Brandenburg Airport, the Hamburg Elbphilharmonie, and offshore wind parks show how project delivery can face massive problems, and illuminating solutions are offered to these problems. Overall, the case of Germany also offers the opportunity to assess various new forms of project delivery, such as public-private partnerships (PPP), and the risks and opportunities of ambitious first-mover 'pioneer' projects. The book will be of great interest for scholars and upper-level students of human geography, business and management, as well as policy makers.
Editors and Affiliations
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Hertie School of Governance, Berlin, Germany
Genia Kostka
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Quartier 110, Hertie School of Governance, Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Jobst Fiedler
About the editors
Jobst Fiedler is Professor of Public and Financial Management at the Hertie School of Governance, Germany. He was Vice Dean between 2004 and 2013. As Senior Fellow in Residence of the School he now conducts research projects on the financing and management of public infrastructure as well as on changes in the fiscal governance on the national as well as the subnational level in the aftermath of the great financial crisis.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Large Infrastructure Projects in Germany
Book Subtitle: Between Ambition and Realities
Editors: Genia Kostka, Jobst Fiedler
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29233-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-29232-8Published: 31 May 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-80520-7Published: 30 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-29233-5Published: 23 May 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 206
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Urban Studies/Sociology