Mega Infrastructure Projects in Greece after its accession to the EU (1981-2021)
Abstract
This paper aims to highlight the importance of complexity, uncertainty, and risk in the case of mega projects, with special reference to Greece. To this end, a conceptual theoretical position is made for mega projects, drawing on the
experience of major international research on the subject.
The implications of megaprojects are eco-environmental, economic, social, and institutional, areas in which a need to assess their sustainability versus the conventional notion of responding to the iron triangle of specifications, timelines
and project limits is identified. In this context, the sensitivity towards the issues that arise for space is emphasized, it is investigated whether the set goals have been achieved while restraining factors are identified that reduce the complexity
- uncertainty - risk from the beginning of the project design.
In the light of the above, three major projects in Greece are examined: Attiki Odos, Rio-Antirrio Bridge and the Basic Project of the Attica Metro, as typical examples. These projects have been funded in a decisive way by the European
Union or the European Investment Bank during the period of forty years since the Greece’ accession to the EEC in the framework the European regional policy. In the case of these projects, the specific concerns about the success of their
goals and their impacts are exposed as well as the general concerns about the nature, importance, and reality of mega projects in Greece.
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Skayannis, P. (2021). Mega Infrastructure Projects in Greece after its accession to the EU (1981-2021). Perifereia, 12(12), 41–63. https://doi.org/10.12681/rp.28887
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