Chinese hydropower development in Africa and Asia : challenges and opportunities for sustainable global dam-building / edited by Giuseppina Siciliano and Frauke Urban.
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TextSeries: Routledge explorations in development studiesPublisher: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2017Description: 1 online resourceContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781315440040; 9781315440019Subject(s): Dams -- Economic aspects -- Africa | Dams -- Economic aspects -- Asia | Hydroelectric power plants -- Africa -- Finance | Hydroelectric power plants -- Asia -- Finance | Economic assistance, Chinese -- Africa | Economic assistance, Chinese -- Asia | Investments, Chinese -- Africa | Investments, Chinese -- AsiaAdditional physical formats: Print version: : No titleDDC classification: 333.914095 LOC classification: HD1702 | .C478 2017Online resources: Click here to view. chapter 1 China’s hydropower development in Africa and Asia: Implications for resource access and development / GIUSEPPINA SICILIANO -- chapter 2 Rewards and risks of Chinese hydropower in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) / STEW MOTTA -- chapter 3 China’s investment in African hydropower: How to govern the water–energy nexus? Evidence from the Bui Dam in Ghana / OLIVER HENSENGERTH -- chapter 4 Benchmarking the environmental and social management policies and practices of Chinese overseas dam builders / YING QIU -- chapter 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 -- chapter 6 The environmental and social governance of the Bui Dam project in Ghana / PAUL W. K. YANKSON, KWADWO OWUSU AND ALEX B. ASIEDU -- chapter 7 The environmental and social governance of the Kamchay Dam in Cambodia / GIUSEPPINA SICILIANO, FRAUKE URBAN, MAY TAN-MULLINS, LONN PICHDARA AND SOUR KIM -- chapter 8 Process and project failures in dam-building in Nigeria: The case of Zamfara Hydropower Dam / FELIX OLORUNFEMI -- chapter 9 Chinese dam-building, renewable energy and socio-ecological change in east Malaysia / FADZILAH MAJID COOKE, GUSNI SAAT, FRAUKE URBAN AND GIUSEPPINA SICILIANO -- chapter 10 Global dam-building: Challenges and opportunities for sustainable development / FRAUKE URBAN.