The hydropolitics of dams : engineering or ecosystems? / Mark Everard

Author: Everard, Mark
Additional Titles: Hydro politics of dams
Published: London ; New York : Zed Books, 2013.
Physical Description: x, 309 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

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Contents

Development, water, and dams -- Water in the postmodern world -- Rethinking water and people -- Annexe: Principles for sustainable water sharing.

Summary

The Hydropolitics of Dams charts the troubled waters of 'heavy engineering' approaches to ecosystem management, exploring the history, benefits and problems of large dams. It then explores diverse ecosystem-based approaches to, and the political, economic and legal dimensions of, management of human interactions with the water cycle, concluding that a synthesis of approaches is needed.

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ISBN

9781780325415 (hb)
178032541X (hb)
9781780325408 (pb)
1780325401 (pb)

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-294) and index.

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