Resettlement for China's Three Gorges Dam: Socio-economic impact and institutional tensions

Communist and Post-Communist Studies

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 223-241

  Jackson, Sukhan ^a   Sleigh, Adrian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

China; Dams; Emerging infections; Parasitic diseases; Property rights; Public health; Resettlement; Schistosomiasis; Three Gorges; Water power; Yangtze River

Indexed keywords

DAM CONSTRUCTION; PROPERTY RIGHTS; RESETTLEMENT POLICY; SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT;

CHINA;

EID: 0034062990     PISSN: 0967067X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0967-067X(00)00005-2     Document Type: Article

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