China's big dams.

China's big dams.

China accounts for nearly half the worlds big dams, yet authorities there say that more than four-fifths of the country's hydroelectric potential remains unexploited. Accordingly, whether or how to build more dams there and elsewhere, and how to deal with the side-effects of dams already built...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:IEEE spectrum 38, 9 (2001).
Main Author: Sweet, W.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
China.
Three Gorges Dam.
Xiaolangdi dam.
Dams.
Displaced population.
Environmental issues.
Environmentalists.
Flow changes.
Greenhouse emissions reduction.
Human rights activists.
Hydroelectric potential.
International lending agencies.
Social issues.
Unexpected sedimentation patterns.