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Corruption in Public projects and Megaprojects: There is an elephant in the room!

Project governance, benefit management, and project success: Towards a framework for supporting organizational strategy implementation

Project governance and stakeholders: a literature review

The objective reality of uneven water resource distribution and imbalanced water demand of the human society makes it inevitable to transfer water It has been an age-old method to adopt the inter-basin water transfers (IBTs) for alleviating and even resolving the urgent demand of the water-deficient areas A number of countries have made attempts and have achieved enormous benefits However, IBTs inevitably involve the redistribution of water resources in relevant basins and may cause changes of the ecological environment in different basins Such changes are two-sided, namely, the positive impacts, including adding new basins for water-deficient areas, facilitating water cycle, improving meteorological conditions in the recipient basins, mitigating ecological water shortage, repairing the damaged ecological system, and preserving the endangered wild fauna and flora, as well as the negative impacts, including salinization and aridification of the donor basins, damage to the ecological environment of the donor basins and the both sides of the conveying channel system, increase of water consumption in the recipient basins, and spread of diseases, etc Because IBTs have enormous ecological risk, it is necessary to comprehensively analyze the inter-basin water balance relationship, coordinate the possible conflicts and environmental quality problems between regions, and strengthen the argumentation of the ecological risk of water transfer and eco-compensation measures In addition, there are some effective alternative measures for IBTs, such as attaching importance to water cycle, improving water use efficiency, developing sea water desalination, and rainwater harvesting technology, etc

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Eco-environmental impact of inter-basin water transfer projects: a review

On a computer you can delete directories with reckless abandon. Whole tree structures of folders can be obliterated with just one multiple selection and a control key combination. It's great fun but maybe a bit too powerful at times. Anyway, I have just been doing the real world equivalent; burning real world direc-tories/folders on a real world bonfire, also great fun even if it lacks an undo function. This may seem rather wasteful but there is a reason. I'll start, though, with the filing cabinets I bought 15 years ago from an Ameri-can town planner. They were 50's styled, rounded corners, Cole Steel, just the right height for a desk-top placed on top of them; absolutely perfect. There was only one slight, minor, tiny drawback; they were for paper of the American 'letter' size and here in the UK we use 'A4' which is a slight, minor, tiny bit bigger. I tried A4 paper in the drawers and they fit... but only just. So I bought the cabinets. It was like when you find a great pair of secondhand shoes that are just that incy-wincy bit too small; you kid yourself they fit and then spend the next month walking around with curled up toes and blisters. Well, I kidded myself about the Cole Steel cabinets and spent the next month with A4 paper that was always slightly crumpled at the edges. Eventually I could stand it no more and while living in Holland I switched to European sizes. Faced with a choice of A4 or the larger Folio I chose Folio having had more than enough of curled edges. I built up a large collection of information (partly through a policy of never throwing anything out!) and when I returned to the UK I took all the files with me. On purchasing a filing cabinet to hold all the files I discovered that the UK, like Holland, has two sizes. Unfortunately, they are not the same two sizes; we have the choice between A4 or something called Foolscap. (I'm still unsure what a cap for a fool has got to do with paper, but there you go!). So I paid my money, got my cabinets, re-filed everything in foolscap-sized files and burned the Dutch folders on the bonfire. Such international compatibility horror stories are not new. It's not just a paper thing, it covers many other facets of life …

International standards

Systems Engineering to improve the governance in complex project environments

There are several definitions of systems engineering (SE) in the literature, each with different definitions of its relationship with project management (PM), causing a great deal of misunderstanding. This paper offers a broad and critical discussion of the relevant literature with a deep reflection concerning the historical evolution and state-of the-art of both the definition of SE and its relationship with PM. This endeavour provides two main results: 1) a conceptual framework to define SE in a project-based environment; 2) a model to identify the best formal interactions between the project manager and system engineer based on the project characteristics.

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Erika Romano

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Systems Engineering to improve the governance in complex project environments

Project manager and systems engineer: a literature rich reflection on roles and responsibilities