Dam them All: On the Failure of Dams and Dam Building Frameworks
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- Abstract
- My thesis research concerns the relationship between resource scarcity and conflict, with a particular focus on South Africa and Lesotho's international water agreement, the Lesotho Highlands Water Project. The LHWP, as with many large dam projects, has been fraught with problems and the politics surrounding it have been contentious. My research details and analyzes the various factors that have hampered the LHWP, with particular emphasis on the role of private interests, financial incentives, poor infrastructure planning and water management. My findings ultimately argue that it is the framework through which we consider and approve dam projects that is flawed, and leads to pervasive flaws in their commissioning and construction. The known impacts of global climate change, including global warming and the increasing unpredictability of temperature and precipitation, both contribute to and compound these factors. As a result, the political repercussions of large dam projects like the LHWP will become increasingly salient and demand political responses.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Date created | May 2017 |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Cavallo, Christine | |
|---|---|---|
| Primary advisor | Samoff, Joel |
Subjects
| Subject | thesis |
|---|---|
| Subject | dams |
| Subject | dam |
| Subject | water |
| Subject | resource conflict |
| Subject | climate change |
| Subject | global warming |
| Subject | lesotho |
| Subject | south africa |
| Subject | International Relations |
| Subject | IR |
| Subject | History |
| Subject | Cavallo |
| Genre | Thesis |
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- Cavallo, Christine. (2017). Dam them All: On the Failure of Dams and Dam Building Frameworks. Stanford Digital Repository. Available at: http://purl.stanford.edu/tr821gh3406
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