A New Order for Rivers and Society: The World Commission on Dams and Beyond 1. The Power and the Water 2. Rivers No More: The Environmental Effects of Dams 3. Temples of Doom: The Human Consequences of Dams 4. When Things Fall Apart: The Technical Failures of Large Dams 5. Empty Promises: The Elusive Benefits of Large Dams 6. Paradise Lost: Dams and Irrigation 7. The Wise Use of Watersheds 8. Energy: Revolution or Catastrophe? 9. Industry Applies, Man Conforms: The Political Economy of Damming 10. We Will Not Move: The International Anti-Dam Movement Appendixes
This is an updated edition of a classic study of one of the most controversial environmental and development issues - dam building. It explains the history and politics of dam building worldwide and shows why large dams have become such a contentious issue.
Patrick McCully is campaigns director of the California-based International Rivers Network. He is also an associate editor of The Ecologist and a contributing writer for Multinational Monitor. Since 1992 he has worked with activists in India opposing the Sardar Sarovar Dam on the Narmada River. He is co-author of two books, Imperilled Planet (1990) and The Road to Rio: An NGO Action Guide to the Earth Summit (1992).
If you want to read a truly dazzling book on Big Dams, drop mine
and read this
*Arundhati Roy*
A superlative account of the plethora of problems with dams.
McCully’s book should be required reading for all politicians and a
prime text for engineering schools.
*Brent Blackwelder, president of Friends of the Earth US*
This book has brilliantly consolidated all the scientific,
environmental, social and economic evidence, backed by case studies
from every continent, proving clearly the non-viability and
non-sustainability of large dams. Those of us struggling against
such dams in Third World countries desperately need this book.
*Nalni Jayal, secretary of the Himalaya Trust, Dehra Dun, India*
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