Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
Technological Hydroscapes in Asia: The Large Dams Debate Reconsidered
Large dams have evoked contentious debates about the trajectories and effectiveness of development, environmental impacts and social justice. As is especially the case in the countries of the Global South, particularly in Asia, the construction and operation of large dams are amongst the most prestigious but also most sensitive development issues. These large-scale transformations of fluvial environments into technological hydroscapes serve to provide hydropower, flood control and water supply for irrigation, industrial and urban uses. In turn, negative socioeconomic consequences through displacement, resettlement and insufficient compensation as well as adverse environmental impacts emerge. From a political ecology perspective, these massive development interventions can be seen as contested environments shaped by distinct actor constellations and the underlying aspirations of modernisation and social resistance. This introductory chapter explores the various dimensions of the large dams controversy in Asia and retraces the historical course of the debate in the context of changing development paradigms, underlying power asymmetries and the social constructions of nature.
Technological Hydroscapes in Asia: The Large Dams Debate Reconsidered
Large dams have evoked contentious debates about the trajectories and effectiveness of development, environmental impacts and social justice. As is especially the case in the countries of the Global South, particularly in Asia, the construction and operation of large dams are amongst the most prestigious but also most sensitive development issues. These large-scale transformations of fluvial environments into technological hydroscapes serve to provide hydropower, flood control and water supply for irrigation, industrial and urban uses. In turn, negative socioeconomic consequences through displacement, resettlement and insufficient compensation as well as adverse environmental impacts emerge. From a political ecology perspective, these massive development interventions can be seen as contested environments shaped by distinct actor constellations and the underlying aspirations of modernisation and social resistance. This introductory chapter explores the various dimensions of the large dams controversy in Asia and retraces the historical course of the debate in the context of changing development paradigms, underlying power asymmetries and the social constructions of nature.
Technological Hydroscapes in Asia: The Large Dams Debate Reconsidered
Advs Asian Human-Environmental Res.
Nüsser, Marcus (Herausgeber:in) / Nüsser, Marcus (Autor:in)
08.10.2013
14 pages
Aufsatz/Kapitel (Buch)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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