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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.
This book highlights the long-term resettlement process of the
Egyptian Nubian people along the Aswan High Dam. Assessing the
resettlement of 48,000 Egyptian Nubians in connection with the High
Dam is especially important for three main reasons: firstly, this
resettlement process is one of the rare cases in which research
begun before the dam was built has continued for over forty years.
Secondly, the resettlement of the Egyptian Nubian people is one of
the few cases in which the living standards of the large majority
improved because of the initial political will of the government,
combined with Nubian initiatives. Thirdly, given the complexity of
the resettlement process, weaknesses in government planning,
implementation, and in the weakening of government political
provide valuable lessons for future dam-induced resettlement
efforts.
Global threats can be expected to cause a global environmental
crisis and declining living standards for most people. Threats
analyzed include poverty, cultural, economic, political and
religious fundamentalism, consumption, population increase and
degradation of the global ecosystem. Chapters on the United States,
China and Zambia illustrate difficulties that high, middle and low
income countries face in addressing such threats. The final chapter
examines the type of transformational change required just to
reduce the rate and magnitude of future decline.
Global threats can be expected to cause a global environmental
crisis and declining living standards for most people. Threats
analyzed include poverty, cultural, economic, political and
religious fundamentalism, consumption, population increase and
degradation of the global ecosystem. Chapters on the United States,
China and Zambia illustrate difficulties that high, middle and low
income countries face in addressing such threats. The final chapter
examines the type of transformational change required just to
reduce the rate and magnitude of future decline.
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.
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