Evaluating Dam Sustainability: the Challenge of Lao Nam Theun 2

Evaluating Dam Sustainability: the Challenge of Lao Nam Theun 2

Author: Wayne White

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2008-09-25

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13: 0557003237

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This book is both a needed methodology for evaluating the sustainability of hydropower/ dam projects, and a case study of one of the more precedent setting dam developments of our time, the Nam Theun 2 project in the Lao PDR. It combines issues of biodiversity, indigenous persons, and poverty alleviation, against the backdrop of the World Bank's search for legitimacy for returning to a role promoting massive dams.