Everard, Mark,

The hydropolitics of dams : engineering or ecosystems? / Mark Everard. - x, 309 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

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.

9781780325415 178032541X 9781780325408 1780325401

2013454675

016491599 Uk


Dams--Environmental aspects.
Ecosystem management.
Water-supply engineering.
Sustainable development.

TC540 / .E94 2013

333.9115