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Future Hydroelectric Development in Brazilian Amazonia: Towards Comprehensive Population Resettlement

In: The Future of Amazonia

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  • Luc J. A. Mougeot

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Population resettlement is expected to continue to grow in the near future throughout the world, much as a result of water resource development (PEEM, 1986, p. 74). The Indira Sarovar Complex on India’s River Narmada will require the re-accommodation of some 85,000 people from 253 villages, and impoundments projected in the River Plate basin, over 94,000 people (Goodland and Ledec, 1986, p. 28; Szekely, 1982, pp. 240–1). Thailand’s Pa Mong Scheme is to displace some 400,000 individuals, with resettlement costs possibly absorbing 29 per cent of the Scheme’s budget (Lightfoot, 1981, p. 97). China’s proposed Three Gorges Dam Scheme might uproot some 1,400,000 people; this is more than were dislocated over a period of twenty years at 18 major reservoirs in Africa and South Asia (Goldsmith and Hildyard, 1984, p. 15; Mougeot, 1986, p. 402).

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  • Luc J. A. Mougeot, 1990. "Future Hydroelectric Development in Brazilian Amazonia: Towards Comprehensive Population Resettlement," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: David Goodman & Anthony Hall (ed.), The Future of Amazonia, chapter 5, pages 90-129, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-21068-8_5
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-21068-8_5
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    1. Fearnside, Philip M., 2016. "Environmental and Social Impacts of Hydroelectric Dams in Brazilian Amazonia: Implications for the Aluminum Industry," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 77(C), pages 48-65.

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