Large Dams Long Term Impacts on Riverine Communities and Free Flowing Rivers /

• Main Author: Scudder, Thayer (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Water Resources Development and Management,
• Subjects: Sustainable development.; Economic geography.; Environmental management.; Environmental economics.; Hydrology.; Ethnology.; Sustainable Development.; Economic Geography.; Environmental Management.; Environmental Economics.; Hydrology/Water Resources.; Social Anthropology.
• Physical Description: XXVIII, 284 p. 40 illus., 39 illus. in color. online resource.
• ISBN: 9789811325502
• ISSN: 1614-810X
• DOI: 10.1007/978-981-13-2550-2

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.