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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Large Dam Dilemma
    sub title: An Exploration of the Impacts of Hydro Projects on People and the Environment in China
  name:
    name part: Wang, Pu.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Dong, Shikui.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Lassoie, James.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XV, 99 p. 23 illus., 20 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: Large dam construction has significant environmental and social impacts at different scales. As the largest developing country in the world, China has built about half of the world’s large dams, and more are expected to be built over the next two decades to meet the country’s rapidly growing demand for energy. This book summarizes and updates information about the history, distribution, functions, and impacts of large dams, both globally and at China’s national level. It then addresses the environmental and social-economic impacts of large dams in China with particular emphasis on the impacts of large dams on relocated people and associated compensation policies. Lastly, it introduces an integrated ecological and socio-economic study conducted in areas affected by dams along the Upper Mekong River, China. This book has the following three goals. The first goal is to summarize and update information on large dams globally and at China’s national level (Ch. 2). We examine large dam problems from different perspectives, ranging from their spatial and temporal distributions and their environmental and social impacts, to discussions and debates centered on them. We also incorporate the results of an empirical investigation of the environmental and socio-economic impacts of large dams on the Upper Mekong River, China, and draw conclusions out of the analysis (Chs.3 & 4). Our second goal is to provide an analysis framework to help understand the environmental and social-economic impacts of dam construction and the resulting environmental degradations and social inequities at different scales (Chs.3 & 4), as well as to offer recommendations for mitigating these impacts within China’s socio-political context (Ch. 5). The significant environmental effects resulting from dam construction include damage to ecological integrity and loss of biological diversity. The most significant social consequences brought by dam projects are their negative impacts on relocated people. Our an…
  table of contents: Chapter 1 A Global Review of Large Dam Construction -- Chapter 2 Large Dams in China: An Overview of History, Distribution, and Case Studies -- Chapter 3 Environmental Impacts of Dams in China: Focusing on Biological Diversity and Ecological Integrity -- Chapter 4 Socioeconomic Impacts of Dams in China: Focusing on Relocated People -- Chapter 5 Conclusions -- The Future of Large Dams in China -- Acknowledgements.
  note: by Pu Wang, Shikui Dong, James Lassoie.
  subject:
    topic: Earth sciences
  subject:
    topic: Energy
  subject:
    topic: Environmental sciences
  subject:
    topic: Biodiversity
  subject:
    topic: Human geography
  subject:
    topic: Earth Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Environmental Science and Engineering
  subject:
    topic: Biodiversity
  subject:
    topic: Human Geography
  subject:
    topic: Energy, general
  classification: GE1-350
  classification: 628
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      title: Springer eBooks
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