Ten years of the Three Gorges Dam: A call for policy overhaul

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Yang, Xiankun ^a   Lu, X X ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY POLICY; HYDROELECTRIC POWER;

ENERGY CRISIS; ENGINEERING PROJECT; GENERATING CAPACITY; HOOVER DAMS; SOCIAL CONSEQUENCES; THREE GORGES DAM;

DAMS;

DECADAL VARIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; HYDROELECTRIC POWER; LITERATURE REVIEW; POWER GENERATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TURBINE;

CHINA; HUBEI; THREE GORGES DAM;

EID: 84891925094     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/8/4/041006     Document Type: Review

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