The Social and Environmental Effects of Large Dams, Volume 2 |
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... major benefits claimed for large - scale water development projects . Given that food and energy are the two commodities in shortest supply throughout the Third World , is it any wonder that so many developing countries now see large ...
... major benefits claimed for large - scale water development projects . Given that food and energy are the two commodities in shortest supply throughout the Third World , is it any wonder that so many developing countries now see large ...
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... major bean - producing region - had suffered major crop losses due to increased ozone levels . More recently , a 1982 study ( con- ducted by the National Crop Loss Assessment Network ) sought to establish the effect of ozone pollution ...
... major bean - producing region - had suffered major crop losses due to increased ozone levels . More recently , a 1982 study ( con- ducted by the National Crop Loss Assessment Network ) sought to establish the effect of ozone pollution ...
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... major recreation benefits were claimed in spite of official opposition from state and federal recre- ation agencies . Similar distortions exist in the New Melones project.2 The GAO report referred to by Carter was the result of an in ...
... major recreation benefits were claimed in spite of official opposition from state and federal recre- ation agencies . Similar distortions exist in the New Melones project.2 The GAO report referred to by Carter was the result of an in ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
The Problems of Resettlement | 17 |
Management and MaintenancePerennial Problems | 163 |
Copyright | |
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acre-feet acres agricultural land Akawaio Arid Land Aswan Aswan Dam Aswan High Dam Barton Worthington benefits billion m³ Biswas Brazil Bruce Stokes building built canal Carl Widstrand caused Chagga construction cost crops cultivation cultural damage deforestation Developing Countries disease drainage earthquakes ecological economic Edward Goldsmith effects Egypt Environment Environmental estimated evaporation farmers farming feddans fertile fish flood control forest Goodland groundwater hectares High Dam hydroelectric Ibid increase India industrial inevitable irrigated land irrigation irrigation agriculture irrigation schemes irrigation system John Waterbury large dams large-scale water loss malaria ment meters million hectares Nile peasants percent perennial irrigation plans plants points pollution problem production qanats region reservoir resettlement result Rothé salinization salt schistosomiasis sedimentation seepage seismic silt social soil Sonjo Sri Lanka supply tanks Third World tion traditional irrigation Tucuruí Valley village water development schemes water projects waterlogging wildlife World Bank