Dams and Development : : Transnational Struggles for Water and Power / / Sanjeev Khagram.
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...
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Khagram, Sanjeev, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Dams and Development : Transnational Struggles for Water and Power / Sanjeev Khagram. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018] ©2004 1 online resource (288 p.) : 3 tables, 8 line drawings text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- FIGURES -- TABLES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- CHAPTER ONE. Transnational Struggles for Water and Power -- CHAPTER TWO. Dams, Democracy, and Development in India -- CHAPTER THREE. India's Narmada Projects Historical Genesis and the First Transnational Reform Campaign -- CHAPTER FOUR. The Transnational Campaign to Save India's Narmada River -- CHAPTER FIVE. Dams, Democracy, and Development in Comparative Perspective -- CHAPTER SIX. Dams, Democracy, and Development in Transnational Perspective -- NOTES -- INDEX restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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.Khagram tells the story of a growing, but contentious, world society that features novel and increasingly efficacious norms of appropriate behavior in such areas as human rights and environmental protection. The transnational coalitions and networks led by nongovernmental groups that espouse such norms may seem weak in comparison with states, corporations, and such international agencies as the World Bank. Yet they became progressively more effective at altering the policies and practices of these historically more powerful actors and organizations from the 1970s on.Khagram develops these claims in a detailed ethnographic account of the transnational struggles around the Narmada River Valley Dam Projects in central India, a huge complex of thirty large and more than three thousand small dams. He offers further substantiation through a comparative historical analysis of the political economy of big dam projects in India, Brazil, South Africa, and China as well as by examining the changing behavior of international agencies and global companies. The author concludes with a discussion of the World Commission on Dams, an innovative attempt in the late 1990s to generate new norms among conflicting stakeholders. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022) Dams Economic aspects. Dams Environmental aspects. Dams Social aspects. Dams India Narmada River Valley. Environmental degradation India Narmada River Region. Human ecology Cross-cultural studies. Human ecology India Narmada River Region. Water resources development Environmental aspects India Narmada River Valley. General Economics. Political Science & Political History. POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013 9783110536157 print 9780801489075 https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501727399 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501727399 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501727399/original |
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- FIGURES -- TABLES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- CHAPTER ONE. Transnational Struggles for Water and Power -- CHAPTER TWO. Dams, Democracy, and Development in India -- CHAPTER THREE. India's Narmada Projects Historical Genesis and the First Transnational Reform Campaign -- CHAPTER FOUR. The Transnational Campaign to Save India's Narmada River -- CHAPTER FIVE. Dams, Democracy, and Development in Comparative Perspective -- CHAPTER SIX. Dams, Democracy, and Development in Transnational Perspective -- NOTES -- INDEX |
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- FIGURES -- TABLES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- CHAPTER ONE. Transnational Struggles for Water and Power -- CHAPTER TWO. Dams, Democracy, and Development in India -- CHAPTER THREE. India's Narmada Projects Historical Genesis and the First Transnational Reform Campaign -- CHAPTER FOUR. The Transnational Campaign to Save India's Narmada River -- CHAPTER FIVE. Dams, Democracy, and Development in Comparative Perspective -- CHAPTER SIX. Dams, Democracy, and Development in Transnational Perspective -- NOTES -- INDEX |
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