Anticipation, significance and response to ecosystem impacts of large dams
Institution: | University of Cape Town |
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Degree: | M.Phil. |
Year: | 2000 |
Keywords: | Environmental and Geographical Science |
Record ID: | 1429004 |
Full text PDF: | http://hdl.handle.net/11180/7159 |
Bibliography: leaves 21-23. This paper provides a brief overview of the context, scope, methodology and salient findings emerging from a survey of 125 large dams in 52 countries world-wide. This global Cross-Check Survey was one of four key work programme components integral to the world Commission on Dams, initiated in Gland, Switzerland in 1997. In particular the paper gives a brief overview of some of the key issues responsible for significant ecosystem impacts and highlights key responses practices in a variety of different regions and countries world-wide.