Silenced Rivers: The Ecology and Politics of Large DamsEntirely updated in the light of the recent World Commission on Dams Report, and responding to it, this new edition of Patrick McCully's now classic study shows why large dams have become such a controversial technology in both industrialized and developing countries. The book explains the history and politics of dam building worldwide and shows why large dams have become so controversial. It details the ecological and human impacts of large dams, and shows how the 'national interest' argument is used to legitimize uneconomic and unjust projects which benefit elites while impoverishing tens of millions, describes the technical, safety and economic problems of dam technology, the structure of the international dam-building industry, and the role played by international banks and aid agencies. |
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... floodplain In my view , nature is awful and what we do is cure it . Camille Dagenais , former head of Canadian dam engineering firm SNC , 1985 Even if flood control is not an intended consequence of a project , a storage dam will almost ...
... floodplain rivers the floodplain is just as much a part of the river as the main channel itself . Most fish in the Amazon basin , for example , spend much of their lifecycle in the várzea , the tens of thousands of square kilometres of ...
... Floodplain Management Review Committee , A Blueprint for Change . Sharing the Challenge : Floodplain Management into the 21st Century , Report of the IFMRC to the Administration Floodplain Management Task Force , Washing- ton , DC ...
Contents
Acknowledgements | viii |
Introduction to the Updated Edition | xv |
The Power and the Water | 1 |
Copyright | |
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