An institutional approach to the Göta kanal : a nineteenth-century infrastructure mega-project / Björn Hasselgren.
Hasselgren, Björn, author.
2023
HE473.G67
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Title An institutional approach to the Göta kanal : a nineteenth-century infrastructure mega-project / Björn Hasselgren.
Author Hasselgren, Björn, author.
ISBN 9783031444166 (electronic bk.)
3031444167 (electronic bk.)
3031444159
9783031444159
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-44416-6
Published Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xiii, 108 pages) : illustrations (some color).
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-031-44416-6 doi
Call Number HE473.G67
Dewey Decimal Classification 386/.409485
Summary This book is based on an institutional evolutionary theoretical view, as presented in author⁰́b9s 2018 book Transport Infrastructure in Time, Scope and Scale. Canals were the major transport infrastructure system besides roads and maritime transport until railroads were introduced. The canal studied is the Swedish G©œta kanal during the preparation and construction phase from 1800⁰́b31832. Thus, the G©œta kanal project, and the canal-era, is seen from a technological, an economic and a political perspective. Comparisons are made with two contemporary major canal-projects; the Erie Canal in the USA (1817⁰́b31825) and the Caledonian Canal in Britain (1804-1822). It is argued that the G©œta kanal project, as Sweden's Mega Project of its time, represented an important development step in Sweden as regards learning and innovation and became a starting point for Swedish transport infrastructure projects in the time to come, primarily the railways. Bj©œrn Hasselgren is a guest researcher in the Economic History Department of Uppsala University, Sweden and has a Ph.D. in planning and decision analysis from KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden. He has extensive experience from senior positions in the transport infrastructure sector and the Sveriges Riksbank. His last book, Transport Infrastructure in Time, Scope and Scale: An Economic History and Evolutionary Perspective, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2018.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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1.The development of Transport Infrastructure Systems
2. G©œta kanal and the "canal-age" the literature
3. G©œta kanal ⁰b3 the major Swedish Canal ⁰b3 and an example of the Canal era - a brief introduction
4. Different perspectives on G©œta kanal
5. G©œta kanal and the iron industry in the adjoining regions ⁰b3 an example of interrelations and interdependencies
6. Conclusions and analysis.

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