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Megaproject: Case Study of China's Three Gorges Project (Chinese Studies on China) - Hardcover

Luk, Shiu-hung; Whitney, Joseph

 
9780873327336: Megaproject: Case Study of China's Three Gorges Project (Chinese Studies on China)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0873327330 ISBN 13: 9780873327336
Publisher: Routledge, 1992

Synopsis

This volume translates crucial Chinese documents on a debate currently raging in China on a proposed project that has enormous implications for its environmental, economic, and social impact - the Three Gorges (Sanxia) Project on the Yangtze River. The most massive water resource project ever planned in China and one of the largest in the world, the Three Gorges Project would cost $1.1 billion to build, would necessitate the relocation of 1.1 million people, would flood a 375-mile-long area and thus destroy some of China's - indeed the world's - most beautiful scenery, and would threaten the extinction of a rare river porpoise. The editors seek to place the arguments in a clear and scholarly perspective that helps to make this book a valuable source of information.

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Authored by Luk, Shiu-hung; Whitney, Joseph

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
1992
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0873327330
ISBN 13 
9780873327336
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
246