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

By:

Everard, Mark

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9781780325415
178032541X
9781780325408
1780325401

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

333.9115 23

LOC classification:

TC540 .E94 2013

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.

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Shelving location	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	NMC Library	Stacks	TC540 .E94 2013 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		33039001339208

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

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

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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