Search Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More »
My library | Help | Advanced Book Search | Web History | Sign in

Books

The Social and environmental effects of large dams

Front Cover
0 Reviews
Wadebridge Ecological Centre, 1992 - Technology & Engineering

From inside the book

 

91 pages matching construction in this book

Where's the rest of this book?

What people are saying - Write a review

We haven't found any reviews in the usual places.

Related books

Silenced rivers: the ecology and politics of large dams
Silenced rivers: the ecology and politics of large dams
Patrick McCully
Snippet view - 2001
Water wars: drought, flood, folly, and the politics of thirst
Water wars: drought, flood, folly, and the politics of thirst
Diane Raines Ward
Snippet view - 2003
The case against the global economy: and for a turn toward the local
The case against the global economy: and for a turn toward the local
Jerry Mander,Edward Goldsmith
Snippet view - 1997
All related books »

Contents

Chapter 13
106
GENERAL STRUCTURAL PROBLEMS AGEING
142
Chapter 14
148
Copyright

6 other sections not shown

Other editions - View all

The social and environmental effects of large dams
The social and environmental effects of large dams, Volume 2
Edward Goldsmith,Nicholas Hildyard
Snippet view - 1984
The Social and Environmental Effects of Large Dams: Overview
The Social and Environmental Effects of Large Dams: Overview
Edward Goldsmith,European Ecological Action Group,Wadebridge Ecological Centre
Snippet view - 1984
The Social and Environmental Effects of Large Dams: Case studies
The Social and Environmental Effects of Large Dams: Case studies
Edward Goldsmith,European Ecological Action Group,Wadebridge Ecological Centre
Snippet view - 1986

Common terms and phrases

acres agricultural annual Aswan Aswan Dam Aswan High Dam authors note benefits canal caused cent Chapter construction cost countries crops cultivation dam projects delta describes displaced downstream drainage economic Effects of Large engineering environment Environmental Effects environmental impact erosion estimated farmers fish fisheries flood control floodplain flow forest Government groundwater hectares High Dam hydro hydroelectric hydropower impoundment increase India irrigated land irrigation irrigation schemes irrigation systems jects Kariba Dam Lake large dams large-scale loss Mahaweli major ment metres million Narmada oustees perennial irrigation planning population problems production proposed qanats Reclamation region reservoir resettlement River Basin salinisation salinity Sardar Sarovar Sardar Sarovar projects schistosomiasis sediment seismicity Senegal Senegal River silt Social and Environmental soil soil salinization Tehri Dam Three Gorges tion traditional tribal Valley villages Wadebridge water development water projects water resources water transfer waterlogging wildlife words World Bank

Bibliographic information

QR code for The Social and environmental effects of large dams
TitleThe Social and environmental effects of large dams
Volume 3 of The Social and Environmental Effects of Large Dams: A Report to the European Ecological Action Group, Nicholas Hildyard
The Social and Environmental Effects of Large Dams, Edward Goldsmith
AuthorsEdward Goldsmith, Nicholas Hildyard, European Ecological Action Group, Wadebridge Ecological Centre
PublisherWadebridge Ecological Centre, 1992
Subjects ›  › 

Dams
Technology & Engineering / Civil / Dams & Reservoirs
Technology & Engineering / Hydraulics
Water resources development
  
Export CitationBiBTeX EndNote RefMan