BOOKS by Patrick McCully

Silenced Rivers: The Ecology and Politics of Large Dams: Enlarged and Updated Edition more books like this

by Patrick McCully

Entirely updated in the light of the 2001 World Commission on Dams Report, and responding to it, this new edition of Patrick McCully's classic study shows why large dams have become such a controversial technological issue in both the industrialized and the developing countries. The book tells the story of the rapid growth of the international ...

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Imperiled Planet: Restoring Our Endangered Ecosystems more books like this

by Edward Goldsmith, Peter Bunyard, Patrick McCully

We, as inhabitants of the earth, are not outside the world - we are in it. The perspective of this provocative environmental primer is a holistic one, embracing the concept of Gaia. Edward Goldsmith and his distinguished coauthors view the natural world not as a collection of detachable working parts, but as a selfgenerating system which while ...

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Silenced Rivers: The Ecology and Politics of Large Dams more books like this

by Patrick McCully

This study explains the history and politics of dam building worldwide and shows why large dams have become so controversial. It details the ecological and human impacts of large dams and shows how the "national interest" argument is used to legitimize uneconomic and unjust projects which benefit elites while impoverishing others. The technical, ...

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