Social science perspectives on climate change and development

University of Copenhagen

Xaquín S. Pérez-Sindín López

Tag: megaprojects

  • “Large-scale mining developments’ 7 capital sins” Documentary (in Spanish)

    Federico Guzman documentary on megamining in Zacatecas, Mexico. See also his thesis book. http://rimd.reduaz.mx/7Pecados2019.mp4?fbclid=IwAR1r9nAn3t9TCFzipu7IVPRXgpPnGFkoXZcAsQU0RniHCf-NSOqb4peQECY

  • Megaprojects and community conflicts in A Corunha, Galicia, Spain

    This article, in Galician language, addresses the history of rural neiborghood in the bounds of the city of A Corunha and how it has suffered from different megaprojects that threaten its mere existence. The article refrences a arquitect project led by Ergosfera, a group of architets and how they claim a greater attention to heritage…

  • Four urban conditions of vibrant city life and reflection on megaprojects

    Assuming the bellow showed Jacobs´ urban conditions of vibrant city life and that urban megraprojects tend to make urban spaces more homogenous due to the concentration of a particular service or user profile, do megaprojects kill vibrant city life in a long term? Jacobs argues that vibrant activity can only flourish in cities when the physical…

  • Government and Community Reaction to Boomtown Growth theory

    1) Enthusiasm as officials and residents concentrate on the positive economic impacts of job growth and retail spending that are espoused by energy industry spokespeople, while the possible negative impacts are either unknown or are dismissed as unlikely in their specific area; 2) Uncertainty, as the town starts to change as new workers arrive in noticeable numbers. It…

  • Limits of revitalization schemes based on urban megaprojects

    “The allegued Bilbao Miracle and Its Discontents” by Gerardo del Cerro Santamaría (The Cooper Union) and part of the book: Megaprojects: A Worldwide View (Research in Urban Sociology, Volume 13) Emerald Group Publishing Limited, pp.27 – 59. See abstract: This chapter outlines and explains the development of the Abandoibarra megaproject, focusing in particular on the key…

  • Professor Leslie Sklair: Key researcher in Global Studies

    Leslie Sklair is Professor Emeritus in Sociology at LSE. He received his PhD from LSE, and his thesis, Sociology of Progress, was published by Routledge in 1970 and was then translated into German. In 1973 he published Organized Knowledge: Sociological View of Science and Technology (which was translated into Spanish). In the 1980s he carried…

  • O Ave a Madrid tamén perxudica a Madrid

    Alén de empobrecer e despoboar a periferia, o modelo radial tende a crear un centro (véxase Madrid, París ou Londres) densamente poboado, suburbanizado e pouco integrador (o que podería derivar en falta de integración de colectivos en risco de exclusión social, véxase revoltas en París e Londres). É dicir, en realidade tampouco beneficia ao centro,…

  • Overscaled Urbanization (Tim Franco Captures the Overscaled Urbanization of Chongqing)

    © Tim Franco These days, many of China‘s largest urban areas are easily recognizable to people from all over the world, with the skylines of coastal mega-cities such as Shanghai andBeijing taking their place in the global consciousness. Far less known though is the inland city of Chongqing – another of China’s five top-tier “National Central…

  • The Governance Of Energy Megaprojects

    Description ‘Benjamin Sovacool and Christopher Jon Cooper have produced an astonishing and well-written book, based on extensive original research in twelve countries. They explore the technical, social, political and economic dimensions of four energy megaprojects. The large scale of megaprojects always appears to complicate the decision-making process and often causes failures. Megaprojects may even reinforce…

  • [Video lecture] Post industrial Dynamics and Urban Housing by Hugo Priemus