The Hydropolitics of Dams: Engineering or Ecosystems?

ISBN-13: 9781780325408 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 320 str.

Mark Everard

Opis

As we enter a time when human influence is so profoundly shaping the natural world, water is a prime focus for our technologies and victim of our largely unintended pressures. In particular, large dams exert an array of profound effects on ecosystems and the services that they provide to society and this insightful new book argues that there are more appropriate systems and technologies. Featuring case studies from China, India and South Africa The Hydropolitics of Dams charts its way through these troubled waters by looking at the history, benefits and down-sides of dams and alternative technologies practiced across the world, before exploring political, economic, legal and many other dimensions and concluding with an exploration of international water management policy.

Spis treści

Introduction Part I: Development, water and dams 1. Replumbing the modern world 2. Temples of the modern world 3. Stemming the flow 4. A changing mindset 5. The World Commission on Dams and beyond 6. The state of play with dams 7. Dams and ecosystem services 8. A new agenda for dams Part II: Water in the postmodern world 9. Water in the postmodern world 10. Managing water at landscape scale 11. Catchment production and storage 12. Water flows through society 13. Markets for water services 14. Nature's water infrastructure Part III: Rethinking water and people 15. Living within the water cycle 16. Governance of water systems 17. Towards a new hydropolitics Annexe: Principles for sustainable water sharing