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The hydropolitics of dams : engineering or ecosystems? / Mark Everard. Textbook

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: Eng Publisher: London ; New York : Zed Books, 2013Description: x, 309 pages : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781780325408
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • TC540 EVE
Contents:
Development, water, and dams -- Water in the postmodern world -- Rethinking water and people -- Annexe: Principles for sustainable water sharing.
Summary: The Hydropolitics of Dams charts the troubled waters of 'heavy engineering' approaches to ecosystem management, exploring the history, benefits and problems of large dams. It then explores diverse ecosystem-based approaches to, and the political, economic and legal dimensions of, management of human interactions with the water cycle, concluding that a synthesis of approaches is needed.
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Item type Current library Home library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Books Books Harare Institute of Technology Main Library Harare Institute of Technology Main Library TC540EVE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available BK0009325
Books Books Harare Institute of Technology Main Library Harare Institute of Technology Main Library TC540EVE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 2 Available BK0009324
Books Books Harare Institute of Technology Main Library Harare Institute of Technology Main Library TC540EVE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 3 Available BK0009323

includes index

Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-294)

Development, water, and dams -- Water in the postmodern world -- Rethinking water and people -- Annexe: Principles for sustainable water sharing.

The Hydropolitics of Dams charts the troubled waters of 'heavy engineering' approaches to ecosystem management, exploring the history, benefits and problems of large dams. It then explores diverse ecosystem-based approaches to, and the political, economic and legal dimensions of, management of human interactions with the water cycle, concluding that a synthesis of approaches is needed.

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