Dams and development : transnational struggles for water and power / Sanjeev Khagram.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Khagram, Sanjeev.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human ecology--India--Narmada River Region.

Environmental degradation--India--Narmada River Region.

Dams--India--Narmada River Valley.

Water resources development--Environmental aspects--India--Narmada River Valley.

Dams--Environmental aspects.

Dams--Economic aspects.

Dams--Social aspects.

Human ecology--Cross-cultural studies.

Human ecology.

Dams.

Water resources development--Environmental aspects.

Environmental degradation.

India--Narmada River Valley.

India--Narmada River Region.

Genre:

Cross-cultural studies.

Physical Description:

xii, 270 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Ithaca [NY] : Cornell University Press, 2004.

Summary:

Big dams built for irrigation, power, water supply, and other purposes were among the most potent symbols of economic development for much of the twentieth century. Of late they have become a lightning rod for challenges to this vision of development as something planned by elites with scant regard for environmental and social consequences-especially for the populations that are displaced as their homelands are flooded. In this book, Sanjeev Khagram traces changes in our ideas of what constitutes appropriate development through the shifting transnational dynamics of big dam construction.

Contents:

Transnational struggles for water and power

Dams, democracy, and development in India

India's Narmada projects : historical genesis and the transnational reform campaign

The transnational campaign to save India's Narmada River

Dams, democracy, and development in comparative perspective

Dams, democracy, and development in transnational perspective.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-259) and index.

ISBN:

0801442281

0801489075

OCLC:

54952866