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Large Dams: Long Term Impacts on Riverine Communities and Free Flowing Rivers

Large Dams: Long Term Impacts on Riverine Communities and Free Flowing Rivers

Scudder, Thayer

Hardcover

Series: Water Resources Development and Management

Technology & EngineeringEnvironmental StudiesGeography

ISBN10: 9811325499
ISBN13: 9789811325496
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Oct 9 2018
Pages: 284
Weight: 1.36
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
This book highlights the first comparative long-term analysis of the negative impacts of large dams on riverine communities and on free-flowing rivers in Africa, the Middle East and Asia. Following the Foreword by Professor Asit K. Biswas, the first section covers the 1956-1973 period, when the author believed that large dams provided an exceptional opportunity for integrated river basin development. In turn, the second section (1976-1997) reflects the author's increasing concerns about the magnitude of the socio-economic and environmental costs of large dams, while the third (1998-2018) discusses why large dams are in fact not cost-effective in the long term.

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