Overview
Rigorously analyzes reform processes regarding siting and building dams
Extensive examination of legal changes and their environmental and social impacts
Detailed observation of norm diffusion from global to local level
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
The World Commission on Dams (WCD) report (2000) “Dams and Development: A New Framework for Decision-Making” set a landmark in the ongoing controversy over large dams. Now that more than ten years have passed, one has to realize that the WCD norms matter. However, their real chance of becoming implemented relies on whether their core values, strategic priorities and guidelines are accepted by national decision-makers and are translated into official policies and practices. The book’s major concern is whether the big hydropower states have improved their standards for environment and resettlement, and whether international standards are applied or exist only on paper.
The introductory and synthesis chapters present the methodological approach and discuss the findings. Other chapters analyze changes in dam policies in the big hydropower states Brazil, China, India and Turkey; the role of non-governmental organizations in advocating against the Turkish Ilisu Dam project on the Tigris River; the strategies of International Rivers and World Wildlife Fund for Nature in the global hydropower game; the policies of the German government and its positioning in the dam debate, and the engagement of Chinese actors in building the Bui Dam (Ghana) and the Kamchay Dam (Cambodia).
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Evolution of Dam Policies
Book Subtitle: Evidence from the Big Hydropower States
Editors: Waltina Scheumann, Oliver Hensengerth
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23403-3
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-23402-6Published: 26 March 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-50842-8Published: 03 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-23403-3Published: 11 March 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 352
Number of Illustrations: 14 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour
Topics: Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice, Political Science, Renewable and Green Energy