Book ID: CBB000700536

Deep Water: The Epic Struggle over Dams, Displaced People, and the Environment (2005)

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Leslie, Jacques (Author)


Farrar, Straus & Giroux


Publication Date: 2005
Physical Details: 352 pp.; maps
Language: English

Description Looks at case studies in western India, southern Africa, and Australia.


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Review Josephson, Paul (2007) Review of "Deep Water: The Epic Struggle over Dams, Displaced People, and the Environment". Technology and Culture (p. 210). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Richardson, Tanya
Swyngedouw, Erik
Dickman, Christopher R.
Srinivas, Smita
Selcer, Perrin
Sarka, Sahotra
Journals
Social Science Computer Review
Social Studies of Science
Science as Culture
Osiris: A Research Journal Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History
Journal for the Study of Radicalism
Publishers
University of California, San Diego
The MIT Press
Stanford Economics and Finance
Pluto Press Australia
Oxford University Press
Melbourne University Press
Concepts
Environmental sciences
Technology and society
Dams
Drainage; irrigation
Technology and politics
Water
People
Eisenhower, Dwight David
Willcocks, William, Sir
Cotton, Arthur, Sir
Time Periods
20th century, late
21st century
20th century
20th century, early
19th century
Places
Australia
India
South Africa
Japan
Great Britain
Danube river
Institutions
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
United Nations
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