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Social and Environmental Impacts in the North: Methods in Evaluation of Socio-Economic and Environmental Consequences of Mining and Energy Production in the Arctic and Sub-Arctic pp 281–302Cite as

Planning for the Impacts of Megaprojects

Two North American Examples

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Recent large-scale oil and mining developments in North America have been planned to achieve positive social impacts on rural communities. We review some general issues of social-impacts planning through the resource-development cycle. Such planning is illustrated by two recent examples of successful megaprojects — Red Dog Mine in Alaska, and Hibernia oilfield off Newfoundland.

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    Keith Storey

  2. Department of Sociology, University of New Hampshire, Durham, USA

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Storey, K., Hamilton, L.C. (2003). Planning for the Impacts of Megaprojects. In: Rasmussen, R.O., Koroleva, N.E. (eds) Social and Environmental Impacts in the North: Methods in Evaluation of Socio-Economic and Environmental Consequences of Mining and Energy Production in the Arctic and Sub-Arctic. NATO Science Series, vol 31. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1054-2_21

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