Overview
- Reflects the current global interest in large dams, including the long-term analysis of their negative impacts
- Based on pioneering and unique research highlighting how large dams provided for river basin development
- Discusses concerns about the magnitude of the socio-economic and environmental costs of large dams
Part of the book series: Water Resources Development and Management (WRDM)
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Keywords
- Dam resettlement
- Kariba dam
- Gwembe Tonga basin
- Zambezi river
- Aswan high dam
- Kainji Lake basin
- Kafue river
- Mahaweli project
- Sardar Sarovar Project
- River basin development
- African Savanna environments
- Senegal river
- Narmada river development
- Okavango delta
- Onchocerciasis control programme
- Okavango integrated water project
Table of contents (6 chapters)
Reviews
“I enjoyed reading this book. It is well-written and intellectually stimulating. As an emerging scholar in large dams, I found this book very useful, particularly as it engages in a timeline of 60 years. It promises to be a good guide to my own planned long-term studies of large dams in Southern Africa.” (Joshua Matanzima, Water International, August 24, 2020)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Prof. Thayer Scudder is an Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at the California Institute of Technology, USA. He is a leading World authority on dams and is the former Commissioner of the World Commission on Dams. His research interests are in the area of socioeconomic impacts of large dams, regional development, and community-based natural resource management.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Large Dams
Book Subtitle: Long Term Impacts on Riverine Communities and Free Flowing Rivers
Authors: Thayer Scudder
Series Title: Water Resources Development and Management
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2550-2
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-2549-6Published: 09 October 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-4789-4Published: 29 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-2550-2Published: 27 September 2018
Series ISSN: 1614-810X
Series E-ISSN: 2198-316X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVIII, 284
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 39 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sustainable Development, Economic Geography, Environmental Management, Environmental Economics, Hydrology/Water Resources, Social Anthropology