Hydropolitics of dams : engineering or ecosystems? / / Mark Everard

• Autore: Everard Mark
• Pubblicazione: London, England : , : Zed Books, , ©2009; [London, England] : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2021
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: x, 309 p. : ill
• Disciplina: 333.95
• Soggetto topico: Dams - Environmental aspects; Hydraulic engineering - Environmental aspects; Water resources development; The environment
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; About the author; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures, table and boxes; Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; one : Development, water and dams; 1 Replumbing the modern world; A brief history of dams; Different types of dam; Contested resources; The large dam revolution; The Hoover Dam era; The Vaal Dam; The Aswan High Dam; The Three Gorges Dam; The Nagarjunasagar Dam; 'Megawater'; Dams and the future; 2 Temples of the modern world; Watering the drylands; Power to the people; Inland fisheries; Stemming the floods; Other beneficial uses of dams; Multiple uses, multiple benefits. ; 3 Stemming the flowThe tragedy of iconic fishes; Thinking more broadly; Staunching the flow; Changes in the quality of reservoir water; Unaccounted costs; Conflicts over access to water; Changing biodiversity, changing ecosystems; Displacement of people; Alteration of water and energy use; Soils gone sour; Siltation; Draining the land; The Earth moves; Flood control; Dams and the atmosphere; Dams and disease; Strategic targets; The economics of large dams; Whose dam?; The sins of omission; 4 A changing mindset; Mitigating the problems of large dams; Movement for change; A turning tide. ; Continuing momentumTrust in increasingly wise governance; 5 The World Commission on Dams and beyond; The efficacy of dams; The impacts of large dams on ecosystems; The impacts of large dams on people; Broadening the debate; Alternatives to delivery of water and electricity services; The decision-making process; Strategic priorities; Taking forward the challenges; Response to Dams and Development; The UNEP Dams and Development Programme (DDP); The Beijing Declaration on Hydropower and Sustainable Development; WCD+10: revisiting the large dam controversy; 6 The state of play with dams. ; Public engagement in the identification of water needsOptions identification and appraisal; Dam planning; Dam operation; Environmental consequences; Social consequences; Economic consequences; Monitoring compliance and incorporating feedback in scheme improvement; Governance for sustainable water management; International drainage basins; Lessons learned; 7 Dams and ecosystem services; Ecosystem assessment; Dams and ecosystem services; Analysis of the ecosystem service impacts of large dams; Table 7.1 Ecosystem service, based on the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment classification. ; Taking an ecosystem services view of dam proposalsEcosystem services, dams and water sharing; 8 A new agenda for dams; The shifting politics of large dams; War and peace; The politics of technology; two : Water in the postmodern world; 9 Water in the postmodern world; Learning our way to sustainability; A new agenda for water management; Draining the communal well; Working with the flow; Shifting hydropolitics; Flowing down a new channel; 10 Managing water at landscape scale; Catchment management; Integrated Water Resource Management; Box 10.1 The four guiding 'Dublin Principles' for IWRM.
• Sommario/riassunto: The Hydropolitics of Dams charts the troubled waters of 'heavy engineering' approaches to ecosystem management, exploring the history, benefits and problems of large dams. Featuring case studies from China, India and South Africa, this insightful new book argues that there are more appropriate physical and social technologies that can help to sustainably provide access to clean water for all.
• Titolo autorizzato: Hydropolitics of dams
• ISBN: 1-350-22322-0; 1-78032-543-6; 1-78032-540-1; 1-78032-542-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910779854803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II