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Dams and development : transnational struggles for water and power
- Title
- Dams and development : transnational struggles for water and power / Sanjeev Khagram.
- Author
- Khagram, Sanjeev.
- Publication
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, ©2004.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Details
- Description
- xii, 270 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Summary
- Big dams built for irrigation, power, water supply, and other purposes were among the most potent symbols of economic development for much of the twentieth century. Of late they have become a lightning rod for challenges to this vision of development as something planned by elites with scant regard for environmental and social consequences - especially for the populations that are displaced as their homelands are flooded. In this book, the author traces changes in our ideas of what constitutes appropriate development through the shifting transnational dynamics of big dam construction.
- Subject
- Human ecology > India > Narmada River Region
- Environmental degradation > India > Narmada River Region
- Dams > India > Narmada River Valley
- Water resources development > Environmental aspects > Narmada River Valley. > India
- Dams > Environmental aspects
- Dams > Economic aspects
- Dams > Social aspects
- Human ecology > Cross-cultural studies
- Dams
- Dams > Economic aspects
- Dams > Environmental aspects
- Dams > Social aspects
- Environmental degradation
- Human ecology
- Water resources development > Environmental aspects
- Dammbau
- Wasserbau
- Stausee
- Umweltveränderung
- Umweltbelastung
- Ressourcenpolitik
- Entwicklungspolitik
- Barragens (aspectos socioeconômicos;aspectos ambientais) > Índia
- Ecologia humana > Índia
- India
- Dams
- Water
- Hydroelectricity
- Economic development
- Environmental protection
- Democracy
- India > Narmada River Region
- India > Narmada River Valley
- Indien
- Narmadatal
- Genre/Form
- Cross-cultural studies
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-259) and index.
- Contents
- Transnational struggles for water and power -- Dams, democracy, and development in India -- India's Narmada projects : historical genesis and the transnational reform campaign -- The transnational campaign to save India's Narmada River -- Dams, democracy, and development in comparative perspective -- Dams, democracy, and development in transnational perspective.
- ISBN
- 0801442281
- 9780801442285
- 0801489075
- 9780801489075
- LCCN
- 2004007162
- OCLC
- ocm54952866
- 54952866
- SCSB-14204471
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library