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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...
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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 …
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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.
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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 …
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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 …
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practices in these areas for large dams or their alternatives. …
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It presents an overview of the theme based on the author’s experience on EIA in developing countries. In many of these countries, a holistic approach has been adopted to EIA requiring the consideration of both biophysical and socioeconomic impacts. This is expressed in regulations...
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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 …
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The study was undertaken with the objective to review and analyse the costs and benefits of the Sardar Sarovar Dam at this stage, when efforts are being made to complete the last leg of the dam, raising height from 121.92 m to 138.68 m (and 141.21 m when the water is overflowing).
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companies and the developers of destructive dams and fossil fuel projects. A rapidly growing industry of carbon brokers and …
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