The Social and Environmental Effects of Large Dams, Volume 1Report on negative social implications and environmental damage caused by large dams - reviews problems before and after the flood, EG. Human settlement, cultural factors, nature conservation, erosion, effects of perennial irrigation on the spread of disease, destruction of fisherys, seisms, flood control, drainage, maintenance, management, loss of land to plantations, loss of water to urbanization and industrialization, water pollution etc.; includes case studies of effects of dams throughout the world. Bibliography. |
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... Chagga irrigation is also praised by other writers , such as K.M. Stahl and H.M. Johnstone . Both authors stress the degree to which that sophistication contrasts with the simplicity of the tools employed by the Chagga . Thus , the only ...
... Chagga irrigation is also praised by other writers , such as K.M. Stahl and H.M. Johnstone . Both authors stress the degree to which that sophistication contrasts with the simplicity of the tools employed by the Chagga . Thus , the only ...
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... Chagga had no instru- ments for grading : their knowledge and skill , however , made up for that lack of technical instrumentation . Masao describes how they built their furrows . " The alignment , " he writes , " was done purely by eye ...
... Chagga had no instru- ments for grading : their knowledge and skill , however , made up for that lack of technical instrumentation . Masao describes how they built their furrows . " The alignment , " he writes , " was done purely by eye ...
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... Chagga 1. Fidelis T. Masao , " The Irrigation System in Uchagga : An Ethno - Historical Approach ' , Tanzania Notes and Records , No. 75 , 1974 . 2 . Ibid , p.2 . 44. General Accounting Office , op.cit . 1980 , p.44 . 3 . Ibid , p.4 ...
... Chagga 1. Fidelis T. Masao , " The Irrigation System in Uchagga : An Ethno - Historical Approach ' , Tanzania Notes and Records , No. 75 , 1974 . 2 . Ibid , p.2 . 44. General Accounting Office , op.cit . 1980 , p.44 . 3 . Ibid , p.4 ...
Contents
Chapter One The Overt Reasons for Building Dams | 4 |
Chapter Two Dams and Society The Problems of Resettlement 15 PHOTO | 15 |
Chapter Three Social and Cultural Destruction | 27 |
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