Desjardins, Ludwig (2008) The organizational learning of a new realtion between road projets planning and territory stakeholders : the case of the Quebec ministry of tranportation. PhD thesis, Laboratoire Techniques, Territoires et Sociétés (LATTS), ENPC p.504.
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The planning of large-scaled road projects is facing a crisis of public acceptability. During the last few decades, road projects have stopped being associated with progress, to become a subject of debate among western societies. Since the 1970s, the Quebec Ministry of Transportation (MTQ) has been, and is still facing major conflicts in the planning of road projects, especially in urban neighbourhoods. The impacts to urban fabric by new road networks have created strong oppositions. Therefore, these large-scale projects are more difficult to implement in a societal context where diverging stakeholder views make it difficult to attain consensus or integrated solutions. By using the concept of organizational learning, this thesis answers a double interrogation. It searches to understand how the implementation of road projects relates to stakeholders views and the environmental settings. Secondly, it seeks to vi understand how the planning practices are evolving from those experiences. The field of study is formed by four case studies of large road projects planned by the MTQ, and the inventory of organizational changes relating to planning practices. By confronting the projects characteristics with the stakeholders positioning, at each step of the procedure, we observed the effects of the public debate on the project design.
Also, the analysis of the changes in the planning practices, from one project to another, enables us to identify the organizational learning abilities of the MTQ. Our results identify that the relationship between projects and the environment are much more complex that they were previously, as a new form of ‘territorialisation’ is manifesting itself. The comprehensive planning approach is leaving space for the debate of stakeholders representations, and collaborative approaches are emerging as a result. MTQ planning are now adapting to this new context and in return influence it, by a learning process.
| Item Type: | PhD Thesis (PhD) |
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| PhD Supervisor: | Offner, Jean-Marc |
| Date: | 2008 |
| Board of examiners: | Gariépy, Michel and Villeneuve, Paul and Lewis, Paul and Beaudet, Gérard and Offner, Jean-Marc |
| Ecole Doctorale: | ED 448 VILLE ET ENVIRONNEMENT |
| Collection (Fonds): | Ecole des Ponts ParisTech (ENPC) |
| Institution: | ENPC |
| Department: | Laboratoire Techniques, Territoires et Sociétés (LATTS) |
| Subjects: | 9. Sciences of Economy, Management and Society |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Apprentissage organisationnel, Bape, Consultation publique, Débat public, Environnement, Infrastructures routières, Ministère des transports du Québec, Planification, Projets routiers, Territoire, Territorialisation, Organizational Learning, Bape, Public Hearings, Public Debate, Environment, Roads, Quebec Ministry of Transportation, Planning, Road Projects, Territory |
| ID Code: | 4047 |
| Deposited By: | Anna Egea |
| Deposited On: | 22 July 2008 |
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