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ISBN 10: 3030911845
ISBN 13: 9783030911843
Author: Robert Zwahlen
This book describes the entire process of environmental impact assessment for hydropower and dam projects, not from a legal or regulatory point of view, but from a very applied one, based mainly on the personal experience of the author, who is involved in this field of work since over 40 years, by describing the different steps of such an assessment, covering all major aspects to be dealt with. The focus is on environmental issues, while the other main subject—social impacts—is mentioned here only briefly. It will be of interest not only for ESIA (Environmental and Social Impact Assessment) practitioners, be they consultants involved in the preparation of such studies or staff members of environmental protection agencies having to come to decisions based on them, but also for engineers and planners involved in such projects, developers, and people interested in questions related to energy, environment, and climate change. Overall, this book aims at contributing to put the discussionabout hydropower and dam projects on a more objective level.
Assessing the Environmental Impacts of Hydropower Projects Environmental Earth Sciences 1st Table of contents:
Part I. Approach
1. Introduction
2. Different Ways to Look at Things
3. Approach to ESIA
4. Dams, Reservoirs and Power Plants
5. Impacts
6. Mitigation
Part II. ESIA Preparation
7. Introductory Chapters to an Esia
8. Physical Environment
9. Water
10. Biological Environment
11. Human Environment
12. The ESMMP
13. Decommissioning
14. Comparison with Alternatives
Part III. Specific Issues
15. Access Roads
16. Reservoirs as Habitats
17. Reservoir Stratification
18. Downstream Impacts
19. Transboundary and Cumulative Effects
20. Residual or Ecological Flow
21. Dam Projects: Pro and Contra
Part IV. Case Studies
22. Mekong Basin
23. Rogun: Water Scarcity in Central Asia
24. Impoundment and Reservoir Development
25. HPPs in High Mountain Areas
26. Bad Dams?
27. Epilogue: Whither Dams?
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