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Dead in the Water - Global Lessons from the World Bank's Model Hydropower Project in Laos (Paperback)
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Dead in the Water - Global Lessons from the World Bank's Model Hydropower Project in Laos (Paperback)
Series: New Perspectives in Southeast Asian Studies
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For decades, large dam projects have been undertaken by both
nations and international agencies with the aim of doing good:
preventing floods, bringing electricity to rural populations,
producing revenues for poor countries, and more. But time after
time, the social, economic, and environmental costs have outweighed
the benefits of the dams, sometimes to a disastrous degree. In this
volume, a diverse group of experts―involved for years with the
Nam Theun 2 dam in Laos―issue an urgent call for critical
reassessment of the approach to, and rationale for, these kinds of
large infrastructure projects in developing countries. In the
2000s, as the World Bank was reeling from revelations of past
hydropower failures, it nonetheless promoted the enormous Nam Theun
2 project. NT2, the Bank believed, offered a new, wiser model of
dam development that would alleviate poverty, protect the
environment, engage locally affected people in a transparent
fashion, and stimulate political transformation. This was a tall
order. For the first time, this book shows in detail why, despite
assertions of success from the World Bank and other agencies
involved in the project, the dam's true story has been one of
substantial loss for affected villagers and the regional
environment. Nam Theun 2 is an important case study that
illustrates much broader problems of global development policy.
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