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Bad Deal for the Planet: Why Carbon Offsets Aren't Working and how to Create a Fair Global climate Accord
eSocialSciences; International Rivers Network IRN - 2011
companies and the developers of destructive dams and fossil fuel projects. A rapidly growing industry of carbon brokers and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009002304
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Wrong Climate for Big Dams: Destroying Rivers will Worsen Climate Change
eSocialSciences; International Rivers Network IRN - 2011
P roponents of large dams, hoping to capitalize on concern for climate change, are promoting a major expansion of large … dams in developing countries. Yet large dams are highly vulnerable to climate change, which is changing rivers in ways we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009370973
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The Great Carbon Offset Swindle: How Carbon Credits are Gutting the Kyoto Protocol and Why They Must Be Scrapped
McCully, Patrick - eSocialSciences - 2010
companies and the developers of destructive dams and fossil fuel projects. A rapidly growing industry of carbon brokers and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008505782
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Mountains of Concrete: Dam Building in the Himalayas
Dharmadhikary, Shripad - eSocialSciences - 2008
The report discusses for the first time the linkages between climate change and dam-building in the Himalayas, and comprehensively analyzes the impacts of the dam building spree on the region's people, ecosystems, and economy.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005487536
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Three Gorges Dam: A Model of the Past
eSocialSciences; International Rivers Network IRN - 2012
The Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River is the world’s largest and most controversial hydropower project. The 600 kilometer-long reservoir has displaced 1.3 million people and is wreaking havoc with the environment. The reservoir reached its final height in 2010, but many of its impacts...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011133239
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Many Worlds of Dak Vachan: Proverbial Knowledge and the History of Rain and Weather
Jha, Sadan - eSocialSciences - 2010
these questions, the paper sets out an agenda for writing the history of rain and weather in the context of north Bihar. Dak …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008522011
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Protecting Rivers and Rights: The World Commission on Dams Recommendations in Action
eSocialSciences; International Rivers Network IRN - 2011
The briefing kit highlights key examples of policies, regulations and laws that reflect these WCD recommendations and references specific projects that demonstrate them in action. [IRN brief]. URL: [http://www.internationalrivers.org/files/WCDbriefingkit_0.pdf].
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009002283
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Foretelling the Mekong: Key Findings of the MRC’s Strategic Environmental Assessment on Mekong Mainstream Dams
eSocialSciences; International Rivers Network IRN - 2011
With 11 large hydropower dams proposed to block the Lower Mekong River’s mainstream, the future of the river lies at … economies. As these dams threaten to irreversibly undermine the ecology of the Mekong River and will place at risk the … report is that decisions on whether to proceed with the mainstream dams should be deferred for a period of ten years until …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009002311
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Why Big Dams are the Wrong Response to Climate Change
eSocialSciences; International Rivers Network IRN - 2011
International Rivers strongly supports policy measures that can promote a rapid expansion of renewable energy sources. But these measures need to be based on a holistic understanding of sustainability. Large hydropower projects are not a renewable source of energy, can produce significant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009319340
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Mekong Mainstream Dams: Threatening Southeast Asia's Food Security
eSocialSciences; International Rivers Network IRN - 2010
hydropower dams on the Mekong River’s lower mainstream. If built, these dams would harm the river’s ecology and block the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008671528