Chinese Hydropower Development in Africa and Asia (eBook, PDF)

Challenges and Opportunities for Sustainable Global Dam-Building
Redaktion: Siciliano, Giuseppina; Urban, Frauke

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the governance and socio-economic implications of Chinese dams' development in low and middle income countries in Asia and Africa, asking how these big infrastructure projects can promote sustainable development in the recipient countries. The book will appeal to researchers in development, environment, politics and economics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 190
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. August 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781315440033
• Artikelnr.: 49041442

Autorenporträt

Giuseppina Siciliano is a Research Fellow at the School of Oriental and African Studies SOAS, University of London, UK. Frauke Urban is a Reader at the School of Oriental and African Studies SOAS, University of London, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

1. China's hydropower development in Africa and Asia: Implications for
resource access and development Giuseppina Siciliano and Frauke Urban
2. Rewards and risks of Chinese hydropower in the Greater Mekong
Subregion (GMS) Stew Motta and Nathanial Matthews
3. China's investment in African Hydropower: How to govern the
water-energy-nexus? Evidence from the Bui Dam in Ghana Oliver
Hensengerth
4. Benchmarking the environmental and social management policies and
practices of Chinese overseas dam builders Ying Qiu, Grace Mang and
Peter Bosshard
5. The political ecology of rising China: Case study of Chinese
hydropower dams in Africa and Asia May Tan-Mullins, Frauke Urban and
Grace Mang
6. The environmental and social governance of the Bui Dam project in
Ghana Paul W. K. Yankson, Kwadwo Owusu and Alex B. Asiedu
7. The environmental and social governance of the Kamchay dam in
Cambodia Giuseppina Siciliano, Frauke Urban, May Tan-Mullins, Lonn
Pichdara and Sour Kim
8. Process and project failures in dam-building in Nigeria: The case of
Zamfara Hydropower Dam Felix Olorunfemi and Andrew Onwuemele
9. Chinese dam-building, renewable energy and socioecological change in
East Malaysia Fadzilah Majid Cooke, Gusni Saat, Frauke Urban and
Giuseppina Siciliano
10. Challenges and opportunities for sustainable global dam-building
Frauke Urban and Giuseppina Siciliano