The Social and Environmental Effects of Large Dams, Volume 2 |
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Page 85
... fertile and their former in- habitants have now been forced to eke out a living on crowded and less fertile land in other areas . To judge by the increasing rate at which affected areas are being abandoned , the incidence of the disease ...
... fertile and their former in- habitants have now been forced to eke out a living on crowded and less fertile land in other areas . To judge by the increasing rate at which affected areas are being abandoned , the incidence of the disease ...
Page 182
... fertile green belt of pro- ductive crop land and pasture . . . . It could eventually turn the rural subsistence economies of the West African nations of Chad , Mali , Maur- itania , Niger , Senegal and Upper Volta into a vegetable ...
... fertile green belt of pro- ductive crop land and pasture . . . . It could eventually turn the rural subsistence economies of the West African nations of Chad , Mali , Maur- itania , Niger , Senegal and Upper Volta into a vegetable ...
Page 332
... fertile bottomland . Nor will it uproot tens , if not hundreds , of thousands of rural people , condemning them to eke out a miserable existence in the degraded and unfamiliar environment to which they have been consigned . Nor will it ...
... fertile bottomland . Nor will it uproot tens , if not hundreds , of thousands of rural people , condemning them to eke out a miserable existence in the degraded and unfamiliar environment to which they have been consigned . Nor will it ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
The Problems of Resettlement | 17 |
Management and MaintenancePerennial Problems | 163 |
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