Hydropower dams and social impacts : a sociological perspective (English)

Why is the construction of hydropower dams, which generate energy that is renewable and cleaner than oil, coal, or nuclear power, increasingly attacked in the press and assaulted by many critics? The answer, a good part of it, is that the environmental critique of dams has shifted considerably from their physical to their social impacts. During the last decade the thrust of this social critique has been sharpened, new arguments are being used, while...

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Cernea,Michael M.;
Document Date
1997/01/31
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Departmental Working Paper
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18175
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1
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1
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World,
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Other,
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2010/07/01
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Hydropower dams and social impacts : a sociological perspective
Keywords
dam

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Cernea,Michael M..

Hydropower dams and social impacts : a sociological perspective (English). Environment Department working papers ; no. 44. Social assessment series*Social Development papers ; no. SDP 16 Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/446311468761673943

Hydropower dams and social impacts : a sociological perspective (English)

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