Neglected Values of Major Water Engineering Projects: Ecosystem Services, Social Impacts, and Economic Valuation
Hansjürgens, Bernd ; Droste, Nils LU
and Tockner, Klement
(2016)
In Water Resources Development and Management
p.65-78
- Abstract
- Major water infrastructure projects like dams can provide substantial benefits such as food and drinking water security, hydropower generation, and flood control. But these benefits may come at a (too) high cost of large scale ecological alterations or adverse social impacts such as involuntary resettlements. If these costs are neglected, an investment decision will hardly be efficient. In this chapter, we will stress the necessity to make these “neglected values” visible and demonstrate how this can be achieved through economic valuation.
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- author
- Hansjürgens, Bernd
; Droste, Nils
LU
and Tockner, Klement
- publishing date
- 2016
- type
- Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
- publication status
- published
- host publication
- Society - Water - Technology : A Critical Appraisal of Major Water Engineering Projects - A Critical Appraisal of Major Water Engineering Projects
- series title
- Water Resources Development and Management
- editor
- Hüttl, Reinhard F. ; Bens, Oliver ; Bismuth, Christine and Hoechstetter, Sebastian
- pages
- 65 - 78
- publisher
- Springer Open
- external identifiers
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- scopus:84977066736
- ISSN
- 2198-316X
- 1614-810X
- ISBN
- 978-3-319-18971-0
- 978-3-319-18970-3
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-18971-0_5
- language
- English
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- 3c5e457d-75b9-4ddd-b0d7-c61891f38b08
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