Assessing the environmental impacts of hydropower projects / Robert Zwahlen.
Zwahlen, Robert, author.
2022
TD194.6 .Z83 2022
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Title Assessing the environmental impacts of hydropower projects / Robert Zwahlen.
Author Zwahlen, Robert, author.
ISBN 9783030911850 (electronic bk.)
3030911853 (electronic bk.)
9783030911843
3030911845
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-91185-0
Published Cham : Springer, [2022]
Copyright ©2022
Language English
Description 1 online resource (631 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color).
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-030-91185-0 doi
Call Number TD194.6 .Z83 2022
Dewey Decimal Classification 333.71/4
Summary 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 subjectsocial impactsis 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 discussion about hydropower and dam projects on a more objective level.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed January 18, 2022).
Series Environmental earth sciences.
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Part I. Approach
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Different Ways to Look at Things
Chapter 3. Approach to ESIA
Chapter 4. Dams, Reservoirs and Power Plants
Chapter 5. Impacts
Chapter 6. Mitigation
Part II: ESIA Preparation
Chapter 7. Introductory Chapters to an ESIA
Chapter 8. Physical Environment
Chapter 9. Water
Chapter 10. Biological Environment
Chapter 11. Human Environment
Chapter 12. The ESMMP
Chapter 13. Decommissioning
Chapter 14. Comparison with Alternatives
Part III: Specific Issues
Chapter 15. Access Roads
Chapter 16. Reservoirs as Habitats
Chapter 17. Reservoir Stratification
Chapter 18. Downstream Impacts
Chapter 19. Transboundary and Cumulative Effects
Chapter 20. Residual or Ecological Flow
Chapter 21. Dam Projects: Pro and Contra
Part IV: Case Studies
Chapter 22. Mekong Basin
Chapter 23. Rogun: Water Scarcity in Central Asia
Chapter 24. Impoumdment and Reservoir Development
Chapter 25. HPPS in High Mountain Areas
Chapter 26. Bad Dams?
Chapter 27. Epilogue: Whither Dams?

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