Flooded : development, democracy, and Brazil's Belo Monte Dam / Peter Taylor Klein.

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"Contemporary dam construction is markedly different from what it was in the middle of the twentieth century, when governments ignored the negative impacts of large-scale infrastructure projects. In recent decades, many democratic countries have continued to use dams to promote growth, but have also...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Nature, society, and culture.
Main Author: Klein, Peter Taylor (Author)
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2022]
Series:Nature, society, and culture.
Subjects:
Belo Monte (Power plant) > Social aspects.
Dams > Social aspects > Brazil > Pará (State)
Hydroelectric power plants > Social aspects > Brazil > Pará (State)
Sustainable development > Brazil > Pará (State)
Xingu River (Brazil) > Environmental conditions.
Pará (Brazil : State) > Social conditions.
Environmental policy > Brazil.
Barrages > Aspect social > Brésil > Pará (État)
Centrales hydroélectriques > Aspect social > Brésil > Pará (État)
Développement durable > Brésil > Pará (État)
Xingu (Brésil : Rivière) > Conditions environnementales.
Pará (Brésil : État) > Conditions sociales.
Environnement > Politique gouvernementale > Brésil.
Belo Monte (Power plant)
Dams > Social aspects.
Ecology.
Environmental policy.
Hydroelectric power plants > Social aspects.
Social aspects.
Social conditions.
Sustainable development.
Brazil.
Brazil > Pará (State)
Brazil > Xingu River.
Physical Description:vii, 222 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Format: Book

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