Large dams: long term impacts on riverine communities and free flowing rivers

By:

Scudder, Thayer

Contributor(s):

Series: Water Resources Development and ManagementPublication details: Singapore: Springer Nature, 2019.Description: xxviii, 284p.: col. ill.; pbk.: 23cmISBN:

9789811347894

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

627.8 SCU

Summary: This book highlights the first comparative long-term analysis of the negative impacts of large dams on riverine communities and on free-flowing rivers in Africa, the Middle East and Asia. Following the Foreword by Professor Asit K. Biswas, the first section covers the 1956–1973 period, when the author believed that large dams provided an exceptional opportunity for integrated river basin development. In turn, the second section (1976–1997) reflects the author’s increasing concerns about the magnitude of the socio-economic and environmental costs of large dams, while the third (1998–2018) discusses why large dams are in fact not cost-effective in the long term. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-13-2550-2#about-this-book

Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.

Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	IIT Gandhinagar	General	627.8 SCU (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		033515

Includes References

This book highlights the first comparative long-term analysis of the negative impacts of large dams on riverine communities and on free-flowing rivers in Africa, the Middle East and Asia. Following the Foreword by Professor Asit K. Biswas, the first section covers the 1956–1973 period, when the author believed that large dams provided an exceptional opportunity for integrated river basin development. In turn, the second section (1976–1997) reflects the author’s increasing concerns about the magnitude of the socio-economic and environmental costs of large dams, while the third (1998–2018) discusses why large dams are in fact not cost-effective in the long term.

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-13-2550-2#about-this-book

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.