Dams, displacement, and the delusion of development : Cahora Bassa and its legacies in Mozambique, 1965-2007 /

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Cahora Bassa Dam on the Zambezi River, built in the early 1970s during the final years of Portuguese rule, was the last major infrastructure project constructed in Africa during the turbulent era of decolonization. Engineers and hydrologists praised the dam for its technical complexity and the skill...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Isaacman, Allen F. (Autor)
Otros Autores: Isaacman, Barbara
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens : Ohio University Press, [2013]
Colección:New African histories series.
Temas:
Economic development projects > Mozambique.
Forced migration > Zambezi River Valley.
Projets de développement économique > Mozambique.
HISTORY > Africa > South > General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Real Estate > General.
Economic development projects
Forced migration
Rural conditions
Energiewirtschaft
Umsiedlung
Umweltveränderung
Umweltschaden
Cahora Bassa Dam (Mozambique) > History.
Zambezi River Valley > Rural conditions.
Barragem de Cahora Bassa (Mozambique) > Histoire.
Zambèze, Vallée du > Conditions rurales.
Mozambique
Mozambique > Cahora Bassa Dam
Zambezi River Valley
Moçambique
Sambesi
Cabora-Bassa-Staudamm
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : Cahora Bassa in broader perspective
  • The Zambezi River Valley in Mozambican history : an overview
  • Harnessing the river : high modernism and building the dam, 1965-75
  • Displaced people : forced eviction and life in the protected villages, 1970-75
  • The Lower Zambezi : remaking nature, transforming the landscape, 1975-2007
  • Displaced energy
  • Legacies.

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