| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 171 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
| Series |
Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research, 1879-7180 |
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Advances in Asian human-environmental research, 1879-7180
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| Contents |
Technological Hydroscapes in Asia: The Large Dams Debate Reconsidered / Marcus Nüsser / -- Misplaced Knowledge: Large Dams as an Anatopism in South Asia / Ravi Baghel / -- Tibetan Water to Save China? / Miriam Seeger / -- Filling Multipurpose Reservoirs with Politics: Displacing the Modern Large Dam in India / Rohan D'Souza / -- Dams, Riparian Settlement and the Threat of Climate Change in a Dynamic Fluvial Environment / Kumkum Bhattacharyya and Michael J. Wiley / -- Environment in an Emerging Economy: The Case of Environmental Impact Assessment Follow-Up in India / Nirmalya Choudhury / -- Rivers, Dams and Landscapes: Engaging with the Modern on Contested Grounds / Hanna Werner / -- The Promotion of Dams Through the Clean Development Mechanism: Between Sustainable Climate Protection and Carbon Colonialism / Alexander Erlewein |
| Summary |
This book explores the multi-dimensional asymmetries of scale, time, and directions in the large dam controversy with a regional focus on Asia, especially on India and China. Whereas the concept of large-scale transformation of fluvial environments into technological hydroscapes originated in the West, widespread construction of large dams started in the countries of the Global South in the period after decolonisation. Construction and operation of large dams are amongst the most prestigious but also most sensitive development issues, often accompanied by massive resistance of adversely affected people and civil society organisations. Based on the notion of a contested politicised environment, various case studies are analysed to identify the dominant narratives and imaginations that shape the large dams debate. This volume largely contains contributions related to several subprojects from within the Cluster of Excellence Asia and Europe in a Global Context: Shifting Asymmetries in Cultural Flows, based at Heidelberg University, with several expert contributions from external researchers |
| Notes |
Includes index |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed November 18, 2013) |
| In |
Springer eBooks |
| Subject |
Dams -- Asia
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Dams -- Environmental aspects -- Asia
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Geology.
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Environmental management.
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Physical geography.
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Geology
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environmental control.
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physical geography.
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geology.
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Hydraulics.
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Sciences de la terre.
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Environnement.
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Dams
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Dams -- Environmental aspects
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Asia
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Nüsser, Marcus, editor
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| ISBN |
9789400727984 |
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9400727984 |
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