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891614
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Scudder, Thayer
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| Title & Author
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Large dams : : long term impacts on riverine communities and free flowing rivers /\ Thayer Scudder.
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| Publication Statement
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Singapore :: Springer,, [2019]
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| Series Statement
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Water resources development and management,
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| Page. NO
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1 online resource (xxviii, 284 pages) :: color illustrations.
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| ISBN
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9789811325502
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: 9789811325519
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: 9789811347894
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: 9811325502
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: 9811325510
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: 9811347891
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9789811325496
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9811325499
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Includes bibliographical references.
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| Contents
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Introduction of the Book -- 1956-1973: I Believe Large Dams Provide An Exceptional Opportunity For Integrated River Basin Development -- 1976-1995: The International Research Activities of the Institute for Development Anthropology and Increasing Concerns About The Environmental and Socio-Economic Costs of Large Dams for Free Flowing Rivers and River Basin Communities -- My Increasing Disillusionment with The Planning, Implementation, Monitoring, and Evaluation of Large Dams Especially as Illustrated by The World Bank-The Largest and Most Influential Financier of Large Dams -- Postscript In Search of a Career and Myself.
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| Abstract
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This book highlights the first comparative long-term analysis of the negative impacts of large dams on riverine communities and on free-flowing rivers in Africa, the Middle East and Asia. Following the Foreword by Professor Asit K. Biswas, the first section covers the 1956-1973 period, when the author believed that large dams provided an exceptional opportunity for integrated river basin development. In turn, the second section (1976-1997) reflects the author's increasing concerns about the magnitude of the socio-economic and environmental costs of large dams, while the third (1998-2018) discusses why large dams are in fact not cost-effective in the long term.
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Dams-- Design and construction.
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Dams-- Environmental aspects.
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Dams-- Design and construction.
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Dams-- Environmental aspects.
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Economic geography.
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Environmental economics.
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Environmental management.
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Hydrology the hydrosphere.
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Social cultural anthropology, ethnography.
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Sustainability.
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TECHNOLOGY ENGINEERING / Hydraulics
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Sustainable Development.
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Economic Geography.
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Environmental Economics.
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Environmental Management.
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Hydrology/Water Resources.
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Social Anthropology.
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| Dewey Classification
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627/.8
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| LC Classification
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TD195.D35S38 2019
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