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Title Dams in Japan : past, present and future / Japan Commission on Large Dams
Published Boca Raton [Fla.] ; London : CRC Press, [2009]
©2009

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 W'PONDS  627.80952 Nih/Dij  AVAILABLE
Description xxiv, 232 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm
Contents Roles played by dams as seen in the history of water use in Japan -- Environmental and social impacts of dams and responses to these impacts -- Roles of dams: The future -- Summation -- App. 1. Outline of the National Administrative Organs of Japan -- App. 2. The basic framework of river management system in Japan -- App. 3. Outline of the existing dams in Japan -- App. 4. Outline of Water Resources Development River System and facilities
Notes "A Balkema book."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [219]-226) and index
Subject Dams -- Japan -- Design and construction -- History.
Dams -- Environmental aspects -- Japan -- History.
Dams -- Social aspects -- Japan -- History.
Author Nihon Dai Damu Kaigi.
LC no. 2008051275
ISBN 9780415494328 (hbk. : alk. paper)
041549432X (hbk. : alk. paper)