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Deep water : the epic struggle over dams, displaced people, and the environment / Jacques Leslie.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Leslie, Jacques, 1947-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dams.
- Dams--Environmental aspects.
- Dams--Social aspects.
- Physical Description:
- 352 pages : maps ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- Pre-publication title: Dams, development, disaster
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005.
- Summary:
- Taking the reader to the sites of controversial dams, Leslie shows why dams are at once the hope of developing nations and a blight on their people and landscape.
- Contents:
- pt. 1. India : to struggle is to live
- pt. 2. Southern Africa : one good dam
- pt. 3. Australia : a healthy, working river.
- ISBN:
- 0374281726
- OCLC:
- 60605117
- Publisher Number:
- 9780374281724
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