Large dams : long term impacts on riverine communities and free flowing rivers /

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Author / Creator:	Scudder, Thayer, author.
Imprint:	Singapore : Springer, [2019]
Description:	1 online resource (xxviii, 284 pages) : color illustrations.
Language:	English
Series:	Water resources development and management, 2198-316X Water resources development and management.
Subject:	Dams -- Environmental aspects. Dams -- Design and construction. Dams -- Design and construction. Dams -- Environmental aspects.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11745911

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

Table of Contents:

Introduction of the Book
1956-1973: I Believe Large Dams Provide An Exceptional Opportunity For Integrated River Basin Development
1976-1995: The International Research Activities of the Institute for Development Anthropology and Increasing Concerns About The Environmental and Socio-Economic Costs of Large Dams for Free Flowing Rivers and River Basin Communities
My Increasing Disillusionment with The Planning, Implementation, Monitoring, and Evaluation of Large Dams Especially as Illustrated by The World Bank-The Largest and Most Influential Financier of Large Dams
Postscript In Search of a Career and Myself.

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