Large Dams in Asia Contested Environments between Technological Hydroscapes and Social Resistance /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Nüsser, Marcus (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research,
• Subjects: Environment.; Natural disasters.; Physical geography.; Environmental management.; Human geography.; Environmental Management.; Physical Geography.; Human Geography.; Natural Hazards.

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...

Table of Contents:

• Technological Hydroscapes in Asia: The Large Dams Debate Reconsidered
• Misplaced Knowledge: Large Dams as an Anatopism in South Asia
• Tibetan Water to Save China?
• Filling Multi-Purpose Reservoirs with Politics: Displacing the Modern Large Dam in India
• Dams, Riparian Settlement and the Threat of Climate Change in a Dynamic Fluvial Environment
• Environment in an Emerging Economy: The Case of Environmental Impact Assessment Follow-up in India
• Rivers, Dams and Landscapes Engaging with the Modern on Contested Grounds
• The Promotion of Dams through the Clean Development Mechanism: Between Sustainable Climate Protection and Carbon Colonialism.