Chixoy dam legacies: The struggle to secure reparation and the right to remedy in Guatemala

Water Alternatives

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 341-361

  Johnston, Barbara Rose ^a  

^a Center for Political Ecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Chixoy dam development; Guatemala; Human rights; Reparations; Resettlement

Indexed keywords

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DAM CONSTRUCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; ETHNIC MINORITY; INDIGENOUS POPULATION; LEGAL RIGHTS; NEGOTIATION PROCESS; REFUGEE; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; VIOLENCE;

GUATEMALA [CENTRAL AMERICA]; GUATEMALA [GUATEMALA (NTN)];

EID: 77956644900     PISSN: 19650175     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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