Silenced Rivers
Subtitle: The Ecology and Politics of Large Dams
Edition: Updated edition
Publisher: Zed Books
Published: December 7, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9781856499019
Subjects: Applied ecology; Development studies; Management of land & natural resources; Pollution & threats to the environment; Political Science; Business / Economics / Finance; Politics/International Relations; General; Real Estate - General; Political Science / General; International Relations - General; Dams; Economic aspects; Environmental aspects; Social aspects
First sentence: Hoover Dam, an astonishingly graceful curve of concrete pushing back the Colorado River to fill its deep canyon on the Arizona-Nevada border, unleashed the big dam era.