Hidden Bibliographic Details
| ISBN: | 9789811325502
9811325502
9789811325496
9811325499
9789811325519
9811325510
9789811347894
9811347891
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| Digital file characteristics: | text file PDF
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references.
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 07, 2018).
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| Summary: | 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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| Other form: | Print version: 9811325499 9789811325496
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| Standard no.: | 10.1007/978-981-13-2550-2
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