Economics of River Flows Lessons from Dam Removals in America - Hardcover

Bharat Jhunjhunwala

9788178358161: Economics of River Flows Lessons from Dam Removals in America

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 8178358166 ISBN 13: 9788178358161

Publisher: Kalpaz Publications, 2010

Hydropower dams are being removed in America while they are being built in India. Our experts calculate that immense benefits can be reaped from hydropower while American calculations show that hydropower is costly if economic costs of loss of fishing, recreation, biodiversity, etc. are taken into account. The use of rivers for these alternate activities generates welfare directly by improving the quality of life. It also generates large incomes from these alternate activities. They are removing dams because they reckon benefits from free flows of rivers to be larger than from generation of hydropower. This Book draws lesson from the American experience. It shows that proper economic analysis of dams being made in India will show that they perpetrate economic harm on the country. This book is essential reading for economists, power sector officials, power generation companies and environmentalists alike. About The Author:- Bharat Jhunjhunwala was born in a family having interest in sugar, paper and electronic industries. He acquired his doctoral degree in Food and Resource Economics from University of Florida at the age of 23. He joined Indian Institute of Management, Banagalore as an Assistant Professor. Contents:- Preface , List of Contributors , Introduction : Lessons from Dam Removals in the United States/Bharat Jhunjhunwala Part I : WHY DAMS ARE BEING REMOVED IN AMERICA : , 1. Problems of Dam Removal/Jock Conyngham, J. Craig Fischenich and Kathleen D. White , 2. Funding Sources for Dam Removal/Betsy Otto Part II : EXAMPLES OF DAM REMOVALS IN AMERICA : , 3. Economic Analysis of Removing Four Dams on the Lower Snake River/Taxpayers for Common Sense and others , 4. Non-use Values lead to the Removal of Elwha Dam/Baltelle , 5. Removal of Edwards Dam/Michael Paulson , 6. Removal of Embrey Dam/HalWiggins , 7. Denial for Wilkes-Barre Inflatable Structure/U.S. Army Corps of Engineers , 8. The Motts Run Water Treatment Plant/Spotsyluania County Part III : COST-BENEFIT A

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