Dams as Aid: A political anatomy of Nordic development thinking
Author:   Ann Danaiya Usher
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:  

9780415154642


Pages:   200
Publication Date:   21 August 1997
Format:   Hardback
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Brings together key issues in the aid/environment/development debate. Through the examination of dams, this text aims to shed light on wider issues of the political economy of aid. Detailed analysis of dams and aid case studies are included, particularly on Nordic dams, and these case studies are located within a broad comparative and theoretical perspective.

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Author:   Ann Danaiya Usher
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.385kg
ISBN:  

9780415154642


ISBN 10:   0415154642
Pages:   200
Publication Date:   21 August 1997
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Part I Introduction 1 ABOUT THE BOOK, THE CONTRIBUTORS AND WHAT THIS BOOK IS NOT ABOUT 2 REFLECTIONS ON POWER: THREE SCENES FROM THE END OF AN ERA Part II Nordic dams 3 MORATORIUM IN SWEDEN: AN ACCOUNT OF THE DAMS DEBATE 4 THE DAMS INSIDE 5 THE LAST BIG DAM IN NORWAY: WHOSE VICTORY? Part III Nordic dam builders in the south 6 THE MECHANISM OF ‘PERVASIVE APPRAISAL OPTIMISM' Laos 7 VATTENFALL ABROAD: DAMMING THE THEUN RIVER Tanzania 8 PANGANI DAM VERSUS THE PEOPLE 9 PANGANI POWER STRUGGLE: NORDIC DAM BUILDERS ON A TANZANIAN RIVER Chile 10 KVAERNER’S GAME 11 IN DEFENCE OF THE BIOBÍO RIVER

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B'Ann Danaiya Usher has carried out something that, in many different ways, is a pioneering work. - Forests, Trees and People 'It is extremely valuable to find all this published in hard covers' - W. M. Adams, Department of Geography, Cambridge University, Development and Change


B'Ann Danaiya Usher has carried out something that, in many different ways, is a pioneering work. - Forests, Trees and People 'It is extremely valuable to find all this published in hard covers' - W. M. Adams, Department of Geography, Cambridge University, Development and Change


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