LARGE HYDRO-ELECTRIC DAMS UNVIABLE AND SERIOUSLY DAMAGING TO EMERGING ECONOMIES New research from Oxford University reveals severe cost and schedule overruns for large hydro-electric dams

摘要

The evidence is conclusive: large dams in a vast majority of cases are not economically viabLe. Instead of obtaining hoped-for riches, emerging economies risk drowning their fragile economies in debt owing to ill-advised construction of large dams. After a decade-long lull, the construction of large dams has accelerated. Emerging economies of Brazil, China, Ethiopia, Indonesia, and Pakistan among others are rushing to build mega-dams on an unprecedented scale. Yet since 2000, when the World Commission on Dams published its findings, no systematic, global, and independent research has been carried out on the outcomes of large dams.