Eco-Politics of Dams on the Gambia River
Eco-Politics of Dams on the Gambia River
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冈比亚河大坝的生态政治
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2007
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B. Reilly
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Andre DeGeorges;B. Reilly
20世纪80年代，美国国际开发署(USAID)资助了一项冈比亚河大坝的环境评估，评估结果表明，建造巴林霍反盐度拦河坝将导致不利的环境和社会后果。东道国政客、美国国际开发署和开发计划署(开发计划署)试图抹黑这一进程，因此有必要将此事提交自然资源保护理事会。一项关于这些水坝周围事件及其潜在建设的案例研究表明，“大水坝”模式及其对撒哈拉以南非洲人民、生计和环境的潜在危害。
In the 1980s, USAID (US Agency for International Development) funded an environmental assessment of dams on the Gambia River, which determined that construction of the Balingho anti-salinity barrage would result in adverse unmitigative environmental and social consequences. Attempts by host country politicians, USAID and UNDP (United Nations Development Programme) to discredit this process made it necessary to take the matter to the Natural Resource Defense Council. A case study of the events surrounding these dams and their potential construction illustrates the ‘big dam’ paradigm and its potential harm to people, their livelihoods and the environment in Sub-Saharan Africa.