2020
DOI: 10.1002/sres.2744
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Creating a ‘sustainability sublime’ to enable megaprojects to meet the United Nations sustainable development goals

Abstract: Despite cost and schedule overruns and benefits shortfalls, megaprojects (which are large-scale projects that typically cost over a billion dollars and take years to develop and build) continue to be promoted and built creating a megaproject paradox. Prominent megaproject scholar Bent Flyvbjerg (2014) argued that this could be motivated by four 'sublimes'-technological, political, economic and aesthetic that drive new megaprojects being put forward despite their poor performance. Recent evidence shows that bet… Show more

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“…The triple bottom line, which was introduced by Elkington (2004) and is commonly named "the three Ps": people, planet and profit, provides a framework that sets the ground for effective response to sustainability challenges. While the project management studies in higher education have been evolved, in accordance to the profession, from the traditional concepts, mainly focused on construction and engineering, to technology and hightechnology implementations, mainly focused on software, communication and information technologies, and further developed to include advanced skills relevant to the dynamic environment (Seymour & Hussein, 2014;Turner, 2016), it is the time to introduce sustainability concepts into this domain (Sankaran et al, 2020;Silvius & Schipper, 2014a).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The triple bottom line, which was introduced by Elkington (2004) and is commonly named "the three Ps": people, planet and profit, provides a framework that sets the ground for effective response to sustainability challenges. While the project management studies in higher education have been evolved, in accordance to the profession, from the traditional concepts, mainly focused on construction and engineering, to technology and hightechnology implementations, mainly focused on software, communication and information technologies, and further developed to include advanced skills relevant to the dynamic environment (Seymour & Hussein, 2014;Turner, 2016), it is the time to introduce sustainability concepts into this domain (Sankaran et al, 2020;Silvius & Schipper, 2014a).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…On the other hand, commitments and investments to sustainable developmentincluding those related to zero-deforestation, emission reduction, non-financial disclosures and corporate social responsibilityare not new (Adams 2017;Cho et al 2020;Petrescu et al 2020;Sankaran, Müller and Drouin 2020). Nor is there clear evidence to show how such changes influence sustainable development outcomes.…”
Section: Institutional and Resource Effectsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…On the other hand, commitments and investments to sustainable developmentincluding those related to zero-deforestation, emission reduction, non-financial disclosures and corporate social responsibilityare not new (Adams 2017;Cho et al 2020;Consolandi et al 2020;Petrescu et al 2020;Sankaran, Müller and Drouin 2020). Nor is there clear evidence to show how such changes influence sustainable development outcomes.…”
Section: Institutional and Resource Effectsmentioning
confidence: 99%