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The Social and Environmental Effects of Large Dams: Overview

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Wadebridge Ecological Centre, 1984 - Technology & Engineering - 346 pages

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Contents

Introduction
1
Chapter Two Dams and Society The Problems of Resettlement
15
Chapter Three Social and Cultural Destruction
27
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TitleThe Social and Environmental Effects of Large Dams: Overview
Volume 1 of The Social and Environmental Effects of Large Dams, European Ecological Action Group
Volume 1 of The Social and Environmental Effects of Large Dams: A Report to the European Ecological Action Group, Nicholas Hildyard
AuthorsEdward Goldsmith, European Ecological Action Group, Wadebridge Ecological Centre
EditorsEdward Goldsmith, Nicholas Hildyard
PublisherWadebridge Ecological Centre, 1984
Length346 pages
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Technology & Engineering / Civil / Dams & Reservoirs
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