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Study: Brazilian mega-dams caused far more flooding than EIA predicted [1]

Landsat pre- and post-dam images show the area flooded by two Madeira River dams is 69.8 percent greater than projected by the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA).

Publication Date: 
06/07/2017
Mongabay [2]
Tags:
Dams [3], Environment [4], Brazil [5], Floods [6], Ecology [7], Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) [8], Freshwater Ecosystems [9]
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[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/environment-impact-assessment-eia
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