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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,
2014.
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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.