Large dams in Asia : contested environments between technological hydroscapes and social resistance /

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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
Otros Autores: Nüsser, Marcus (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Dordrecht : Springer, 2014.
Colección:Advances in Asian human-environmental research,
Temas:
Dams > Asia.
Dams > Environmental aspects > Asia.
Geology.
Environmental management.
Physical geography.
Geology
Barrages > Asie.
Barrages > Aspect de l'environnement > Asie.
Géologie.
Environnement > Gestion.
Géographie physique.
environmental control.
physical geography.
geology.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Hydraulics.
Sciences de la terre.
Environnement.
Dams
Dams > Environmental aspects
Asia
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Technological Hydroscapes in Asia: The Large Dams Debate Reconsidered / Marcus Nüsser /
  • Misplaced Knowledge: Large Dams as an Anatopism in South Asia / Ravi Baghel /
  • Tibetan Water to Save China? / Miriam Seeger /
  • Filling Multipurpose Reservoirs with Politics: Displacing the Modern Large Dam in India / Rohan D'Souza /
  • Dams, Riparian Settlement and the Threat of Climate Change in a Dynamic Fluvial Environment / Kumkum Bhattacharyya and Michael J. Wiley /
  • Environment in an Emerging Economy: The Case of Environmental Impact Assessment Follow-Up in India / Nirmalya Choudhury /
  • Rivers, Dams and Landscapes: Engaging with the Modern on Contested Grounds / Hanna Werner /
  • The Promotion of Dams Through the Clean Development Mechanism: Between Sustainable Climate Protection and Carbon Colonialism / Alexander Erlewein.

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