The Mekong Project: The test at Nam Ngum
Author | : Willard Anderson Hanna |
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Total Pages | : 16 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Electric power |
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Author | : Willard Anderson Hanna |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 16 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Electric power |
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Author | : Christopher Sneddon |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 283 |
Release | : 2015-09-25 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 022628431X |
"Concrete Revolution "offers a compelling historical account of the U. S. Bureau of Reclamation's contributions to dam technology, Cold War politics, and the social and environmental adversity perpetuated by the U.S. government in its pursuit of capitalist economic development. Founded in 1902, the Bureau amassed geopolitical power after the Second World War, in response to the Soviet Union's increasing global influence. By offering technical and water resource management advice to the world's underdeveloped regions, the Bureau found that it could not only provide them with economic assistance, and provide the U.S. with investment opportunities, but also gain alliances for the U.S. and further the country's global standing in the face of a burgeoning communist regime. The book includes a number of case studies, from the Bureau's foray into overseas development and the launch of its Foreign Activities Office in 1950, to specific projects such as the Litani River initiative in Lebanon, the Blue Nile investigation in Ethiopia, and the Mekong river basin development project in mainland Southeast Asia, the bureau's longest international undertaking, which affected Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam. If, Sneddon argues, we can come to understand dams as both technical and political objects rather than mere instruments of impartial science, we can better participate in current debates about large dams and river basin planning.
Author | : United States. Congress. Hosue. Foreign Affairs |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 1972 |
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Author | : Franklin P. Huddle |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 82 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Mekong River Delta (Vietnam and Cambodia) |
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Author | : Willard Anderson Hanna |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 20 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Mekong River Valley |
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Author | : Ian Charles Campbell |
Publisher | : Academic Press |
Total Pages | : 647 |
Release | : 2009-11-20 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0080920632 |
The Mekong is the most controversial river in Southeast Asia, and increasingly the focus of international attention. It flows through 6 counties, China, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Viet Nam. The 4 downstream countries have formed the Mekong River Commission to promote sustainable development of the river and many of their people depend on it for their subsistence ? it has possible the largest freshwater fishery in the world, and the Mekong waters support rice agriculture in the delta in Viet Nam (which produces about 40% of that country's food) as well as in Cambodia, Laos and Thailand. China is now building the first large mainstream dam on the river, and has proposals for several more. These dams are likely to affect the downstream countries. Several of the downstream countries also have plans for large scale hydropower and irrigation development which could also impact the river. This book will provide a solid overview of the biophysical environment of the Mekong together with a discussion of the possible impacts, biophysical, economic and social, of some possible development scenarios. It is intended to provide a technical basis which can inform the growing political and conservation debate about the future of the Mekong River, and those who depend on it. It is aimed at river ecologists, geographers, environmentalists and development specialists both in the basin and (especially) outside for whom access to this material is most difficult. This book will be the first comprehensive treatment of the Mekong system. The first comprehensive overview of all aspects of the Mekong River system Deals with a regionally critical ecosystem and one under threat The Mekong supports the world's largest freshwater fishery and provides water underpinning a major regional rice paddy system Presents the authoritative findings of the Mekong River Commission's research for a wider audience for the first time outside of limited distribution reports
Author | : Willard Anderson Hanna |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 20 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Electric power |
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Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 940 |
Release | : 1972 |
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Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs (1789-1975) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1676 |
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Genre | : Legislative hearings |
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Author | : Foreign Affairs Research Documentation Center |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 438 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Economic history |
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