Large Dams in Asia : Contested Environments Between Technological Hydroscapes and Social Resistance

Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Contributors -- Abbreviations -- Units of Measure -- Chapter 1: Technological Hydroscapes in Asia: The Large Dams Debate Reconsidered -- 1.1 Framing the Large Dams Debate -- 1.2 Large Dams as Technological Hydroscapes -- 1.3 Ideological Continuities and Disjunctures -- 1.4 The Contributions in This Volume -- References -- Chapter 2: Misplaced Knowledge: Large Dams as an Anatopism in South Asia -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Placing Technology -- 2.3 A Genealogy of a Mission -- 2.3.1 Theological Underpinnings -- 2.3.2 Tropical Nature -- 2.3.3 Environmental Determinism -- 2.4 Hydraulic Mission and Its Contradictions -- 2.4.1 Placeless Origins -- 2.4.2 Universal Replicability -- 2.4.3 Ahistorical Development -- 2.4.4 Nationalised Environments -- 2.5 Dams as Anatopism -- 2.6 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: Tibetan Water to Save China?: Chinese Discourse on the GreatWestern Route -- 3.1 Models for Economic Prosperity and International Power -- 3.2 The Threat of National Disintegration: A Warning -- 3.3 Conclusion -- Glossary -- Names and Dates -- Subject Matters, Places, Titles, Institutions, Etc -- References -- Chapter 4: Filling Multipurpose Reservoirs with Politics: Displacing the Modern Large Dam in India -- 4.1 Enclosing the River: When Dams Ate People -- 4.2 Political Arithmetic for Legitimacy -- 4.3 Concluding Remarks -- References -- Chapter 5: Dams, Riparian Settlement and the Threat of Climate Change in a Dynamic Fluvial Environment: A Case Study of the Damodar River, India -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 The Damodar River System -- 5.3 Methodology and Database -- 5.4 History of Flooding -- 5.5 Controlling the Lower Damodar -- 5.5.1 Downstream Impact of Dams on the Hydrologic Regime -- 5.5.2 Changing Channel Morphology and Sandbar Formation.