Impacts of Megaconferences on the Water Sector [Paperback]

The book is the first pioneering study to assess the impacts of the megaconferences on water policies, programmes and projects at global, regional and national levels. The results are bleak. The evaluation indicated that except for the UN Water Conference, held in Argentina in 1977, the impacts of the subsequent megaconferences have been at best marginal in terms of knowledge generation and synthesis, poverty alleviation, and/or environmental conservation.

As the first pioneering study to assess the impact of megaconferences on water policies and projects at global, regional and national levels, this volume finds that their impact is at best marginal in a number of areas, including environmental conservation.

PART I: Global Considerations.- 1. Impacts of Large Dams: Issues, Opportunities and Constraints.- 2. Indirect Economic Impacts of Dams.- 3. Resettlement Outcomes of Large Dams.- 4. Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Reservoirs.- PART II: Case Studies.- 5. Impacts of Dams in Switzerland.- 6. Dams and Resettlement in Argentina.- 7. Impacts of Sobradinho Dam, Brazil.- 8. The Atat?rk Dam and the Southeastern Anatolia (GAP) Project, Turkey.- 9. Impacts of King River Power Development, Australia.- 10. Resettlement in China.- 11. Large Dams that Command Beijings Heights.- 12. Resettlement due to Sardar Sarovar Dam, India.- 13. Impacts of Kangsabati Project, India.- 14. Regional and National Impacts of Bhakra-Nangal Project, India.- 15. Impacts of Koyna Dam, India.- 16. Resettlement and Rehabilitation: Lesson from India.- 17. Impacts of High Aswan Dam, Egypt.- Index