Tropical dams: To build or not to build?

Science

Volumn 351, Issue 6272, 2016, Pages 456-457

  Fearnside, Philip M ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOTECHNOLOGY; BRAZIL; DAM (BARRIER); ELECTRICITY; ENERGY; ENERGY CONSUMPTION; ENERGY YIELD; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; LETTER; POWER SUPPLY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIETY; SOUTH AFRICA; TROPICAL DAM; TROPICS; ANIMAL; ELECTRIC POWER PLANT; FISH; RIVER;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; FISHES; POWER PLANTS; RIVERS;

EID: 84956637341     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.351.6272.456-b     Document Type: Letter

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