Silenced Rivers: The Ecology and Politics of Large Dams
By Patrick McCully.
Description
Silenced Rivers shows why large dams have become such a controversial technology in both industrialized and developing countries.The book explains the history and politics of dam building worldwide and shows why large dams have become so controversial. It details the ecological and human impacts of large dams, and shows how the 'national interest' argument is used to legitimize uneconomic and unjust projects which benefit elites while impoverishing tens of millions describes the technical, safety and economic problems of dam technology, the structure of the international dam-build...
ISBN(s)
1856494365, 9781856494366
