INTD 200 Lecture 12: Environment and Development
16 Dec 2012
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12/16/12 9:22 am: depletion of fisheries, destructions of tropical coral reefs, costal forest destruction, destroyed forests, loss of global bio-diversity, degradation of environmental lands, bringing marginal lands under production, irrigation and wells, mining, road building. Fdi wants to set up in their countries because there are weaker environmental laws. National development: can provide water, can provide electricity, world bank promotes them. Conservation: flooding of biodiversity, changes in the flows of rivers, impact the movement of fish, reservoirs can emit greenhouse gases, roads, pollution, forestry industry. Development displacements: displaces local and indigenous people, lands and livelihoods, health impact. Social, environment and ethical problems with these dams. There was such a back lash that the world bank stopped doing this, until the nam. Considered the one way to get money into laos and give them economic benefits. They can sell the electricity and reinvest in the infrastructure, social and environmental part of laos.
