Impacts of Large Dams: A Global Assessment

1. Impacts of Large Dams: Issues, Opportunities and Constraints
Asit K. Biswas

2. Indirect Economic Impacts of Dams
Rita Cestti, R. P. S. Malik

3. Resettlement Outcomes of Large Dams
Thayer Scudder

4. Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Reservoirs
Olli Varis, Matti Kummu, Saku Härkönen, Jari T. Huttunen

5. Impacts of Dams in Switzerland
Walter Hauenstein, Raymond Lafitte

6. Hydrodevelopment and Population Displacement in Argentina
Leopoldo J. Bartolome, Christine M. Danklmaier

7. Impacts of Sobradinho Dam, Brazil
Benedito P. F. Braga, Joaquim Guedes Correa Gondim Filho, Martha Regina Borstel Sugai, Sandra Vaz Costa, Virginia Rodrigues

8. The Atatürk Dam in the Context of the Southeastern Anatolia (GAP) Project
Dogan Altinbilek, Cecilia Tortajada

9. Impacts of King River Power Development, Australia
Roger Gill, Morag Anderson

10. Resettlement in China
Guoqing Shi, Jian Zhou, Qingnian Yu

11.
Officials’ Office and Dense Clouds: The Large Dams that Command Beijing’s Heights
James E. Nickum

12. Resettlement due to Sardar Sarovar Dam, India
C. D. Thatte

13. Impacts of Kangsabati Project, India
R. P. Saxena

14. Regional and National Impacts of the Bhakra-Nangal Project, India
R. Rangachari

15. Impacts of Koyna Dam, India
C. D. Thatte

16. Resettlement and Rehabilitation: Lessons from India
Mukuteswara Gopalakrishnan

17. Impacts of the High Aswan Dam
Asit K. Biswas, Cecilia Tortajada

Keywords: Environment, Environment, general, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Environmental Management, Ecotoxicology, Nature Conservation, Waste Water Technology / Water Pollution Control / Water Management / Aquatic Pollution