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Damming The Three Gorges
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Author : Margaret Barber
language : en
Publisher: Toronto ; London : Earthscan
Release Date : 1993
Damming The Three Gorges written by Margaret Barber and has been published by Toronto ; London : Earthscan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Technology & Engineering categories.
Recently, the Chinese government has decided, with a minimum of fanfare, to press ahead with one of the largest hydroelectric project ever built - a dam across the Yangtze river at the Three Gorges. The dam aims to generate 17,500 MW of electricity, will displace over 1 million people, and will create a lake over 450 miles long.
Damming The Three Gorges
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Author : Gráinne Ryder
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993
Damming The Three Gorges written by Gráinne Ryder and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Dams categories.
Building The Three Gorges Dam
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Author : L. Patricia Kite
language : en
Publisher: Raintree
Release Date : 2011-09-13
Building The Three Gorges Dam written by L. Patricia Kite and has been published by Raintree this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-13 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
This series introduces real-world science examples that explain how scientists go about their work. By using newsworthy stories from the world of science and first-hand accounts that communicate excitement and present scientists as role models, this series really brings science to life.
The Three Gorges Dam Der Drei Schluchten Damm
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Author : Matthias Kammerer
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2009-08
The Three Gorges Dam Der Drei Schluchten Damm written by Matthias Kammerer and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-08 with categories.
Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject Business economics - Miscellaneous, grade: 1,3, University of Northampton, course: The political economy of China, 21 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: The Three Gorges Dam, one of the largest engineering projects in the history of mankind, is on the brink of completion. The construction started in 1994 and once completed in 2009, it will be the world's largest men-made reservoir with a capacity of nearly 40 billion m3 and a length of 663km, and will finally submerge an area of 1040km2. (Miller et al.2005; Yong n.d.) The dam is located in Hubei province on the Yangtze, China's longest river and the third longest river worldwide. (International Rivers Network 2004) Sun Yat-sen first proposed the idea of this hydroelectric dam in 1919, but due to war, civil war and revolution the plan was shelved. Mao revived the thought in the mid 50s because of major floods, but the chaos of the Cultural Revolution buried it again until the economic reforms in the 70s and 80s underlined the urgent need for electricity for the rapidly growing country. (Reference.com 2006; Wikipedia n.d.; Kennedy 2001; Starr 2001) Premier Li Peng finally pushed it through the rubber-stamping National People's Congress in 1992, but the project was so highly controversial, that a level of opposition occurred that was unprecedented before. (166 delegates voted against the project, nearly one third abstained). (Starr 2001; Gamer 2003; Cannon 2000) At the moment, as the dam nears completion, the dispute between supporters and opponents continues within China as well as overseas. In my essay, I want to bring forward the main arguments whether the Three Gorges Dam is a good thing for China or not. In the following section I will highlight the multiple benefits of this project. Subsequently, after going into detail concerning its disadvantages, I will finally survey if a single statement is possible and appropriate whether or not this
The River Dragon Has Come Three Gorges Dam And The Fate Of China S Yangtze River And Its People
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Author : Dai Qing
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-07-01
The River Dragon Has Come Three Gorges Dam And The Fate Of China S Yangtze River And Its People written by Dai Qing and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-01 with History categories.
In the ongoing courageous struggle of a relatively small group of Chinese to prevent the completion of the Three Gorges Dam in China, Dai Qing is the outspoken leader whose eloquent voice is always heard despite threats and intimidation by the Chinese authorities to silence it. Dai Qing, an investigative journalist and author with a wide audience in China and abroad, compiled this book of essays and field reports assessing the impact of the Three Gorges megadam now under construction at Sandouping in China's Hubei province at great risk to her own freedom. This book is an effort to prevent history from repeating itself ten-fold (a reference to the great floods in 1975 during which over 60 dams collapsed and at least 100,000 people lost their lives) if the 39 billion cubic metres of water in the Three Gorges reservoir ever escapes by natural or man-made catastrophes. These comprehensive essays reveal the deep rooted problems presented by the Three Gorges project that the government is attempting to disguise or suppress. The main concerns are population resettlement and human rights, the irreversible environmental and economic impact, the loss of cultural antiquities and historical sites, military considerations, and hidden dam disasters from the past. Opponents of the dam are attempting to kill the project or at least reduce the size of the megadam now planned to be the biggest, most expensive and, incidentally, the most hazardous of all hydro-electric projects on this planet.
Fixing Landscape
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Author : Corey Byrnes
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2019-01-15
Fixing Landscape written by Corey Byrnes and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
In 1994, workers broke ground on China’s Three Gorges Dam. By its completion in 2012, the dam had transformed the ecology of the Yangzi River, displaced over a million people, and forever altered a landscape immortalized in centuries of literature and art. The controversial history of the dam is well known; what this book uncovers are its unexpected connections to the cultural traditions it seems to sever. By reconsidering the dam in relation to the aesthetic history of the Three Gorges region over more than two millennia, Fixing Landscape offers radically new ways of thinking about cultural and spatial production in contemporary China. Corey Byrnes argues that this monumental feat of engineering can only be understood by confronting its status as a techno-poetic act, a form of landscaping indebted to both the technical knowledge of engineers and to the poetic legacies of the Gorges as cultural site. Synthesizing methods drawn from premodern, modern, and contemporary Chinese studies, as well as from critical geography, art history, and the environmental humanities, Byrnes offers innovative readings of eighth-century poetry, paintings from the twelfth through twenty-first centuries, contemporary film, nineteenth-century British travelogues, and Chinese and Western maps, among other sources. Fixing Landscape shows that premodern poetry and visual art have something urgent to tell us about a contemporary experiment in spatial production. Poems and paintings may not build dams, but Byrnes argues that the Three Gorges Dam would not exist as we know it without them.
Chongqing The Three Gorges
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Author : Kim Hunter Gordon
language : en
Publisher: Kim Hunter Gordon
Release Date : 2012-05-01
Chongqing The Three Gorges written by Kim Hunter Gordon and has been published by Kim Hunter Gordon this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-01 with categories.
The Cost Of Power In China
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Author : A. D. Coleman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
The Cost Of Power In China written by A. D. Coleman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Technology & Engineering categories.
A book of photos of the Yangtze River Valley in China in 1999, before its flooding due to the installation of the Three Gorges Dam in 2003.
The River Dragon Has Come
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Author : Dai Qing
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-07-01
The River Dragon Has Come written by Dai Qing and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-01 with History categories.
In the ongoing courageous struggle of a relatively small group of Chinese to prevent the completion of the Three Gorges Dam in China, Dai Qing is the outspoken leader whose eloquent voice is always heard despite threats and intimidation by the Chinese authorities to silence it. Dai Qing, an investigative journalist and author with a wide audience in China and abroad, compiled this book of essays and field reports assessing the impact of the Three Gorges megadam now under construction at Sandouping in China's Hubei province at great risk to her own freedom. This book is an effort to prevent history from repeating itself ten-fold (a reference to the great floods in 1975 during which over 60 dams collapsed and at least 100,000 people lost their lives) if the 39 billion cubic metres of water in the Three Gorges reservoir ever escapes by natural or man-made catastrophes. These comprehensive essays reveal the deep rooted problems presented by the Three Gorges project that the government is attempting to disguise or suppress. The main concerns are population resettlement and human rights, the irreversible environmental and economic impact, the loss of cultural antiquities and historical sites, military considerations, and hidden dam disasters from the past. Opponents of the dam are attempting to kill the project or at least reduce the size of the megadam now planned to be the biggest, most expensive and, incidentally, the most hazardous of all hydro-electric projects on this planet.
Yangtze Yangtze
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Author : Qing Dai
language : en
Publisher: London ;$aToronto : Earthscan
Release Date : 1994
Yangtze Yangtze written by Qing Dai and has been published by London ;$aToronto : Earthscan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with China categories.