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  • Large Dams

    Long Term Impacts on Riverine Communities and Free Flowing Rivers

    by Thayer Scudder ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book highlights the first comparative long-term analysis of the negative impacts of large dams on riverine communities and on free-flowing rivers in Africa, the Middle East and Asia. Following the Foreword by Professor Asit K. Biswas, the first section covers the 1956–1973 period, when the author believed that large dams provided an exceptional opportunity for integrated river basin ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Aswan High Dam Resettlement of Egyptian Nubians

    by Thayer Scudder ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book highlights the long-term resettlement process of the Egyptian Nubian people along the Aswan High Dam. Assessing the resettlement of 48,000 Egyptian Nubians in connection with the High Dam is especially important for three main reasons: firstly, this resettlement process is one of the rare cases in which research begun before the dam was built has continued for over forty years. Secondly, ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Chronicling Cultures

    Long-Term Field Research in Anthropology

    by Robert V. Kemper, Wade Pendleton, T Scarlett Epstein, Ulla C. Johansen, Douglas R. White, Louise Lamphere, Evon Z. Vogt, Richard B. Lee, Megan Biesele0, Thayer Scudder1, Elizabeth Colson2, Lisa Cliggett3, George M. Foster4, Peter S. Cahn5 ...
    Some field sites have hosted anthropologists for as long as half a century. Chronicling Cultures collects articles from principals of many of the longest and best-known anthropology projects from four continents-the Kung, Harvard Chiapas Project, Gwembe Valley, Tzintzuntzan, and Navajo among others. These projects have brought a new understanding of change and persistence in communities over time. ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • The Future of Large Dams

    Dealing with Social, Environmental, Institutional and Political Costs

    by Thayer Ted Scudder ...
    Viewed by some as symbols of progress and by others as inherently flawed, large dams remain one of the most contentious development issues on Earth. Building on the work of the now defunct World Commission on Dams, Thayer Scudder wades into the debate with unprecedented authority.Employing the Commission's Seven Strategic priorities, Scudder charts the 'middle way' forward by examining the impacts ... Read more

    $99.99 USD

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    by Margaret E. Keck, Kathryn A. Sikkink ...
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  • Indigenous and Decolonizing Studies in Education

    Mapping the Long View

    Edited by Linda Tuhiwai Smith, Eve Tuck, K. Wayne Yang ...
    Series series Indigenous and Decolonizing Studies in Education
    Indigenous and decolonizing perspectives on education have long persisted alongside colonial models of education, yet too often have been subsumed within the fields of multiculturalism, critical race theory, and progressive education. Timely and compelling, Indigenous and Decolonizing Studies in Education features research, theory, and dynamic foundational readings for educators and educational ... Read more

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    Geographies, Actors and Paradigms

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  • Where the River Ends

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    by Shaylih Muehlmann ...
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  • Land Education

    Rethinking Pedagogies of Place from Indigenous, Postcolonial, and Decolonizing Perspectives

    Edited by Kate McCoy, Eve Tuck, Marcia McKenzie ...
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    Political Opportunities and the Emergence of Protest

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