communities and industry: projects had local impacts and provided local benefits. As dams grew in size and electricity networks … developed, hydropower dams began serving regional and national interests, often to the detriment of local residents. Today …

The construction of large dams is one of the most costly and controversial forms of public infrastructure investment in … large dams in India. To account for endogenous placement of dams we use GIS data and the fact that river gradient affects a … district's suitability for dams to provide instrumental variable estimates of their impact. We find that, in a district where a …

On November 28, 2003, roughly 300 grassroots activists, people affected by large dams and representatives from NGOs … gathered in a small village in Rasi Salai district in Northeast Thailand. They met for a five-day conference on large dams … strong grassroots movements of people directly affected by dams. Participants from 62 countries listened to reports on the …

practices in these areas for large dams or their alternatives. …

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 …

companies and the developers of destructive dams and fossil fuel projects. A rapidly growing industry of carbon brokers and …