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

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 auth...

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Main Author: Scudder, Thayer. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Language:English
Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
Edition:1st ed. 2019.
Series:Water Resources Development and Management,
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Online Access:https://doi.org/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.