GEOG 3600 Lecture 7: lec 7

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Large dams & dev: navigation, shipping & commerce: responds to opportunities in a globalized economy; need for inexpensive and reliable transportation, three gorges dam links up the chinese interior to the rest of china & to the world. Large dams & dev: hydroelectricity: electricity for development, damming the mekong river. Geog*3600: dams, globalization and development: damming the salween river, hatgyi dam funded by electricity genera,ng authority of thailand, ex: narmada river dams, d. Int debate re large dams: development, wealth and prosperity to some groups, but, environmental and social legacy. Envi costs of large dams: siltation, loss of natural and cultural landscapes. Social costs of large dams: displacement, rationale behind & experience of relocation, questions of democracy, rights, and sacrifice (in relation to national development) Resistance & challenging dams-as-development: soc movements: uneven development, development for whom, democratizing & rethinking development, suggesting more appropriate & sustainable.

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