Environment and Resettlement Politics in China: The Three Gorges Project - Couverture rigide

Heggelund, Gørild

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0754638596 ISBN 13 : 9780754638599

Editeur : Routledge, 2004

Synopsis

The Three Gorges dam, currently being constructed on the Yantgze River in China, is controversial both inside and outside China, particularly because of the large number of people to be resettled (officially 1.2 million) and the environmental impacts. Using material previously unavailable in any Western language, it analyses the Chinese discussions over policy-making for the resettlement process and impacts. It concludes that the environment and resettlement policies have been linked in a new way in this project. However, despite these positive developments, it argues that the social impacts from resettlement have not yet reached a high level of political attention and that the Chinese authorities need to acknowledge that resettlement has social costs. The book provides an understanding of the social, political and economic factors of one of the largest and most controversial development projects currently being implemented. It also sheds light on China's policy-making procedures and political priorities over the past decade.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

GÃ, rild Merethe Heggelund is a Senior Research Fellow at The Fridtjof Nansen Institute, Norway

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0754638596
• ISBN 13: 9780754638599
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 296
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