Impacts of Megaconferences on the Water Sector

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Biswas, Asit K. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Tortajada, Cecilia (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009.
• Σειρά: Water Resources Development and Management,
• Θέματα: Earth sciences.; Environmental management.; Hydrogeology.; Geotechnical engineering.; Water pollution.; Macroeconomics.; Environmental economics.; Earth Sciences.; Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management.; Environmental Economics.; Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences.; Waste Water Technology / Water Pollution Control / Water Management / Aquatic Pollution.; Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics.

Since the late 1990s, megaconferences in the water-related sectors have become regular occurrences. The latest one, in Mexico City, in March 2006, is estimated to have cost a total of $205 million, and had 19,000+ participants. In spite of such huge costs and organizational efforts, not a single wat...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• PART I: Global Considerations
• 1. Impacts of Large Dams: Issues, Opportunities and Constraints
• 2. Indirect Economic Impacts of Dams
• 3. Resettlement Outcomes of Large Dams
• 4. Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Reservoirs
• PART II: Case Studies
• 5. Impacts of Dams in Switzerland
• 6. Dams and Resettlement in Argentina
• 7. Impacts of Sobradinho Dam, Brazil
• 8. The Atatürk Dam and the Southeastern Anatolia (GAP) Project, Turkey
• 9. Impacts of King River Power Development, Australia
• 10. Resettlement in China
• 11. Large Dams that Command Beijing’s Heights
• 12. Resettlement due to Sardar Sarovar Dam, India
• 13. Impacts of Kangsabati Project, India
• 14. Regional and National Impacts of Bhakra-Nangal Project, India
• 15. Impacts of Koyna Dam, India
• 16. Resettlement and Rehabilitation: Lesson from India
• 17. Impacts of High Aswan Dam, Egypt
• Index.