Editors:
- Explores the topic of construction and operation of large dams, with a regional focus on Asia
- Discusses the complex relationships between physical landscapes, natural resources, and their modification by human land use
- Explores the various dimensions of the large dams controversy in Asia from a critical perspective
Part of the book series: Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research (AAHER)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
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 inCultural Flows’, based at Heidelberg University, with several expert contributions from external researchers.
Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Geography, Heidelberg University, South Asia Institute, Heidelberg, Germany
Marcus Nüsser
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Large Dams in Asia
Book Subtitle: Contested Environments between Technological Hydroscapes and Social Resistance
Editors: Marcus Nüsser
Series Title: Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2798-4
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-2797-7Published: 04 December 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-017-7738-4Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-2798-4Published: 18 November 2013
Series ISSN: 1879-7180
Series E-ISSN: 1879-7199
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 175
Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations, 12 illustrations in colour
Topics: Environmental Management, Physical Geography, Human Geography, Natural Hazards