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Whose river is it anyway? - Political economy of hydropower in the Eastern Himalayas [1]

The large dams being built on the rivers of the eastern Himalayas have become highly controversial. The hydropower that north-east India is expected to produce is meant almost entirely for use elsewhere. That these dams will be exclusively hydropower and not multipurpose dams and that there will be a great unevenness in the distribution of potential gains and losses - and of vulnerability to risks - accounts for a serious legitimacy deficit in India's ambitious hydropower development plans in the region.

Publication Date: 
21/07/2012
Economic and Political Weekly [2]
47
29
41-52
Tags:
Hydroelectricity [3], Rivers [4], Eastern Himalaya [5], Dams [6], North East [7], Brahmaputra Valley [8], Conflicts [9], Assam [10], Lower Subansiri [11], Public Participation [12], Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) [13], Earthquakes [14], Floods [15], Lakhimpur (D) [16], National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC) [17], Dhemaji (D) [18], Arunachal [19]

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[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/journal/economic-and-political-weekly
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/hydroelectricity
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/rivers
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/eastern-himalaya
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/dams
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/north-east
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/brahmaputra-valley
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/conflicts
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/assam
[11] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/lower-subansiri
[12] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/public-participation
[13] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/environment-impact-assessment-eia
[14] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/earthquakes
[15] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/floods
[16] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/lakhimpur-d
[17] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/national-hydroelectric-power-corporation-nhpc
[18] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/dhemaji-d
[19] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/arunachal