The Social and Environmental Effects of Large Dams: A review of the literature |
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... projects were constructed even though they were not justified in economic or human terms . He writes : " In the Tellico Dam project , for example , hundreds of farm families were dispossessed of their land and livelihood in order to ...
... projects were constructed even though they were not justified in economic or human terms . He writes : " In the Tellico Dam project , for example , hundreds of farm families were dispossessed of their land and livelihood in order to ...
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... Dam of the Mahaweli Project in Sri Lanka , the Panshet Dam in India , the Clyde Dam in New Zealand , the Tehri Dam in the Himalayas , the Three Gorges Dam in China are all cases of projects , built , under construction or proposed ...
... Dam of the Mahaweli Project in Sri Lanka , the Panshet Dam in India , the Clyde Dam in New Zealand , the Tehri Dam in the Himalayas , the Three Gorges Dam in China are all cases of projects , built , under construction or proposed ...
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... dams in India have proved costly economic failures . They have also caused untold social misery and severe ecological damage . So long as the government continues to depend on the narrow expertise of planners to execute dam projects ...
... dams in India have proved costly economic failures . They have also caused untold social misery and severe ecological damage . So long as the government continues to depend on the narrow expertise of planners to execute dam projects ...
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