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Author : Peter Charles Wonacott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Chinese Resettlement and Development the Case of the Three Gorges Dam written by Peter Charles Wonacott and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gørild Heggelund
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Environment and Resettlement Politics in China written by Gørild Heggelund and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Three Gorges dam, currently being constructed on the Yantgze River in China, is controversial both inside and outside China due to the population in the area and the environmental impacts. Using material previously unavailable in any Western language, it analyses the Chinese discussion and policy-making for the resettlement process. It also discusses the development aspects of resettling such a large population (officially 1.2 million), as well as assessing the actual and potential impact of resettlement on this population.
Author : 羅秀華
Publisher : Open Dissertation Press
ISBN 13 : 9781374718074
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (18 download)
Download or read book WATER RESOURCES MGMT & SUSTAIN written by 羅秀華 and published by Open Dissertation Press. This book was released on 2017-01-27 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation, "Water Resources Management and Sustainable Development: a Case Study of the Three Gorges Dam Project at Yangtze River" by 羅秀華, Sau-wah, Kitty, Law, was obtained from The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) and is being sold pursuant to Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 Hong Kong License. The content of this dissertation has not been altered in any way. We have altered the formatting in order to facilitate the ease of printing and reading of the dissertation. All rights not granted by the above license are retained by the author. Abstract: Abstract of Dissertation titled Water Resources Management and Sustainable Development: A Case Study of the Three Gorges Dam Project at Yangtze River submitted by Law Sau Wah, Kitty for the Degree of Master of Arts at The University of Hong Kong in 2003 The present study is a small effort in the direction of linking water resources management (WRM), sustainable development (SD) and reservoir resettlement. It seeks to examine the achievement of China in promoting SD of reservoir resettlers, and add a previously neglected focus on social equity and development, particularly through the case study of the Three Gorges Dam Project (TGP). This study would also explore strategic policy options to WRM and development planning especially in dealing with the question of intragenerational fairness. The TGP will relocate over 1.13 million people within the Three Gorges Reservoir Area (TGRA) or outside to eleven coastal provinces. The TGP resettlement project suffers from inherent institutional, regulatory and financing problems. The developmental resettlement policy of the TGP has limited success in achieving development with resettlement due to poor social impact assessment, weak appraisal system, deliberate underestimation of resettlement scope and tight schedule. Cost- overruns, insecure financial sources and wide-spread funds embezzlement also make the plan fail to adequately compensate for the losses of the TGP resettlers. The results of the SD assessment of the TGP resettlers can be summarised as follows: (1) the social equity of the TGP resettlers is undermined rather than promoted because of declining employment opportunities, income inequality, poor benefit sharing, lack of local participation in decision-making processes and problems of social integration; (2) many of the TGP resettlers encountered high economic pressure after relocation for the sake of the restoration or betterment of housing condition; and (3) the educational opportunities generally increase after relocation, but access is not sustainable. If we assume that assets are not fully substitutable, the development capacity and opportunity of the TGP resettlers have been undermined because of the project as the gains in human-made capital assets cannot compensate for the losses in social, human and knowledge assets. The TGP resettlement project cannot achieve 'strong sustainability' as the social dimensions of SD are ignored. To conclude, the current dam practices and resettlement policies in China should be revisited. It is recommended that the principles of SD should be fully incorporated into the planning of water project resettlement schemes. Participatory approach should be adopted in all decision-making processes with the sufficient provision of relevant information. Finally, poverty alleviation should be the core subject of WRM and resettlement projects in addition to SD. DOI: 10.5353/th_b2682754 Subjects: Water resources development - China
Author : Yan Tan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (893 download)
Download or read book Development, Land-use Change and Rural Resettlement Capacity written by Yan Tan and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Shiu-hung Luk
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315489511
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)
Download or read book Megaproject written by Shiu-hung Luk and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-09-16 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume translates crucial Chinese documents on a debate currently raging in China on a proposed project that has enormous implications for its environmental, economic, and social impact - the Three Gorges (Sanxia) Project on the Yangtze River. The most massive water resource project ever planned in China and one of the largest in the world, the Three Gorges Project would cost $1.1 billion to build, would necessitate the relocation of 1.1 million people, would flood a 375-mile-long area and thus destroy some of China's - indeed the world's - most beautiful scenery, and would threaten the extinction of a rare river porpoise. The editors seek to place the arguments in a clear and scholarly perspective that helps to make this book a valuable source of information.
Author : Dai Qing
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315502763
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (155 download)
Download or read book The River Dragon Has Come! written by Dai Qing and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-01 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the ongoing courageous struggle of a relatively small group of Chinese to prevent the completion of the Three Gorges Dam in China, Dai Qing is the outspoken leader whose eloquent voice is always heard despite threats and intimidation by the Chinese authorities to silence it. Dai Qing, an investigative journalist and author with a wide audience in China and abroad, compiled this book of essays and field reports assessing the impact of the Three Gorges megadam now under construction at Sandouping in China's Hubei province at great risk to her own freedom. This book is an effort to prevent history from repeating itself ten-fold (a reference to the great floods in 1975 during which over 60 dams collapsed and at least 100,000 people lost their lives) if the 39 billion cubic metres of water in the Three Gorges reservoir ever escapes by natural or man-made catastrophes. These comprehensive essays reveal the deep rooted problems presented by the Three Gorges project that the government is attempting to disguise or suppress. The main concerns are population resettlement and human rights, the irreversible environmental and economic impact, the loss of cultural antiquities and historical sites, military considerations, and hidden dam disasters from the past. Opponents of the dam are attempting to kill the project or at least reduce the size of the megadam now planned to be the biggest, most expensive and, incidentally, the most hazardous of all hydro-electric projects on this planet.
Author : Michael M. Cernea
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (5 download)
Download or read book The Risks and Reconstruction Model for Resettling Displaced Populations written by Michael M. Cernea and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Qing Dai
Publisher : London ;$aToronto : Earthscan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Yangtze! Yangtze! written by Qing Dai and published by London ;$aToronto : Earthscan. This book was released on 1994 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sukhan Jackson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Resettlement Issues of China's Three Gorges Dam written by Sukhan Jackson and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael M. Cernea
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780821344446
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (444 download)
Download or read book Risks and Reconstruction written by Michael M. Cernea and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a multidimensional comparative analysis of two large groups of the world's displaced populations : resettlers uprooted by development and refugees fleeing military conflicts or natural calamities. The authors explore common central issues: the condition of being "displaced," the risks of impoverishment and destitu-tion, the rights and entitlements of those uprooted, and, most important, the means of reconstruction of their livelihoods. (Adapté de l'Introduction).
Author : G.W. Annandale
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0080870201
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (88 download)
Download or read book Reservoir Sedimentation written by G.W. Annandale and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research on reservoir sedimentation in recent years has been aimed mainly at water resources projects in developing countries. These countries, especially in Africa, often have to cope with long droughts, flash floods and severe erosion problems. Large reservoir capacities are required to capture water provided by flash floods so as to ensure the supply of water in periods of drought. The problem arising however is that these floods, due to their tremendous stream power, carry enormous volumes of sediment which, due to the size of reservoirs, are virtually deposited in toto in the reservoir basin, leading to fast deterioration of a costly investment. Accurate forecasting of reservoir behaviour is therefore of the utmost importance.This book fills a gap in current literature by providing in one volume comprehensive coverage of techniques required to practically investigate the effects sediment deposition in reservoirs has on the viability of water resources projects. Current techniques for practically estimating sediment yield from catchments, estimating the volume of sediment expected to deposit in reservoirs, predicting sediment distribution and calculating scour downstream of reservoirs are evaluated and presented. The liberal use of diagrams and graphs to explain the various techniques enhances understanding and makes practical application simple. A major feature of the book is the application of stream power theory to explain the process of reservoir sedimentation and to develop four new methods for predicting sediment distribution in reservoirs.The book is primarily directed at practising engineers involved in the planning and design of water resources projects and at post-graduate students interested in this field of study.
Author : Peter H. Gleick
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 1597269662
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (972 download)
Download or read book The World's Water 2008-2009 written by Peter H. Gleick and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Produced biennially, The World’s Water provides a timely examination of the key issues surrounding freshwater resources and their use. Each new volume identifies and explains the most significant trends worldwide, and offers the best data available on a variety of topics related to water. The 2008-2009 volume features overview chapters on: • water and climate change • water in China • status of the Millennium Development Goals for water • peak water • efficient urban water use • business reporting on water This new volume contains an updated chronology of global conflicts associated with water, as well as brief reviews of issues regarding desalination, the Salton Sea, and the Three Gorges Dam. From the world’s leading authority on water issues, The World’s Water is the most comprehensive and up-to-date source of information and analysis on freshwater resources and the political, economic, scientific, and technological issues associated with them. It is an essential reference for water resource professionals in government agencies and nongovernmental organizations, researchers, students, and anyone concerned with water and its use.
Author : Jan Trouw
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 373571921X
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (357 download)
Download or read book The Three Gorges Dam's Impact on Peasant Livelihood written by Jan Trouw and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Due to the Three Gorges Dam, China’s Yangtze becomes a 600 kilometers long reservoir that submerges everything below. Therefore, more than 1.3 million people lose their houses, their arable land, as well as their personal belongings. The book in hand examines the socio-economic impact on peasant livelihood before, during and after the state-forced resettlement.
Author : Yan Tan
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
ISBN 13 : 9789622098565
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (985 download)
Download or read book Resettlement in the Three Gorges Project written by Yan Tan and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the factors influencing the sustainability of the Three Gorges rural resettlement, and the problems and coping strategies of the relocation programme implemented over the period 2000-04.
Author : Bryan Tilt
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 023153826X
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book Dams and Development in China written by Bryan Tilt and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2014-12-02 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China is home to half of the world's large dams and adds dozens more each year. The benefits are considerable: dams deliver hydropower, provide reliable irrigation water, protect people and farmland against flooding, and produce hydroelectricity in a nation with a seeimingly insatiable appetite for energy. As hydropower responds to a larger share of energy demand, dams may also help to reduce the consumption of fossil fuels, welcome news in a country where air and water pollution have become dire and greenhouse gas emissions are the highest in the world. Yet the advantages of dams come at a high cost for river ecosystems and for the social and economic well-being of local people, who face displacement and farmland loss. This book examines the array of water-management decisions faced by Chinese leaders and their consequences for local communities. Focusing on the southwestern province of Yunnan—a major hub for hydropower development in China—which encompasses one of the world's most biodiverse temperate ecosystems and one of China's most ethnically and culturally rich regions, Bryan Tilt takes the reader from the halls of decision-making power in Beijing to Yunnan's rural villages. In the process, he examines the contrasting values of government agencies, hydropower corporations, NGOs, and local communities and explores how these values are linked to longstanding cultural norms about what is right, proper, and just. He also considers the various strategies these groups use to influence water-resource policy, including advocacy, petitioning, and public protest. Drawing on a decade of research, he offers his insights on whether the world's most populous nation will adopt greater transparency, increased scientific collaboration, and broader public participation as it continues to grow economically.
Author : Margaret Barber
Publisher : Toronto ; London : Earthscan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Damming the Three Gorges written by Margaret Barber and published by Toronto ; London : Earthscan. This book was released on 1993 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recently, the Chinese government has decided, with a minimum of fanfare, to press ahead with one of the largest hydroelectric project ever built - a dam across the Yangtze river at the Three Gorges. The dam aims to generate 17,500 MW of electricity, will displace over 1 million people, and will create a lake over 450 miles long.
Author : Dai Qing
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315502755
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (155 download)
Download or read book The River Dragon Has Come! written by Dai Qing and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-01 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the ongoing courageous struggle of a relatively small group of Chinese to prevent the completion of the Three Gorges Dam in China, Dai Qing is the outspoken leader whose eloquent voice is always heard despite threats and intimidation by the Chinese authorities to silence it. Dai Qing, an investigative journalist and author with a wide audience in China and abroad, compiled this book of essays and field reports assessing the impact of the Three Gorges megadam now under construction at Sandouping in China's Hubei province at great risk to her own freedom. This book is an effort to prevent history from repeating itself ten-fold (a reference to the great floods in 1975 during which over 60 dams collapsed and at least 100,000 people lost their lives) if the 39 billion cubic metres of water in the Three Gorges reservoir ever escapes by natural or man-made catastrophes. These comprehensive essays reveal the deep rooted problems presented by the Three Gorges project that the government is attempting to disguise or suppress. The main concerns are population resettlement and human rights, the irreversible environmental and economic impact, the loss of cultural antiquities and historical sites, military considerations, and hidden dam disasters from the past. Opponents of the dam are attempting to kill the project or at least reduce the size of the megadam now planned to be the biggest, most expensive and, incidentally, the most hazardous of all hydro-electric projects on this planet.
