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Large Dams in Asia Contested Environments between Technological Hydroscapes and Social Resistance /

This book explores the multi-dimensional asymmetries of scale, time, and directions in the large dam controversy with a regional focus on Asia, especially on India and China. Whereas the concept of large-scale transformation of fluvial environments into technological hydroscapes originated in the We...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Nüsser, Marcus (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
Edición:1st ed. 2014.
Colección:Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research,
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Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Technological Hydroscapes in Asia: The Large Dams Debate Reconsidered
  • Misplaced Knowledge: Large Dams as an Anatopism in South Asia
  • Tibetan Water to Save China?
  • Filling Multi-Purpose Reservoirs with Politics: Displacing the Modern Large Dam in India
  • Dams, Riparian Settlement and the Threat of Climate Change in a Dynamic Fluvial Environment
  • Environment in an Emerging Economy: The Case of Environmental Impact Assessment Follow-up in India
  • Rivers, Dams and Landscapes Engaging with the Modern on Contested Grounds
  • The Promotion of Dams through the Clean Development Mechanism: Between Sustainable Climate Protection and Carbon Colonialism.