Large Dams in Northeast India
The Ecologist Asia
Vol 11 No 1 - January-March 2003
Table of Contents
- Large Dams in the Northeast -- A Bright Future?
- The Brahmaputra River, India
- Rivers
- Lessons From Loktak
- Impacts of the hydroelectric power project on the biodiversity of Loktak lake
- Tracking a Hydel Project
- River dolphins in the Brahmaputra system: Threats from projects
- In the interest of justice...
- Violations and evasion: the public hearing at Gerukamukh
- Saved! The Story of Rathong Chu
- Clearance of Large Hydel Projects
- Tipaimukh
- We should have gone to Court!
- Stemming the Flood, Killing Biodiversity
- The Brahmaputra's Changing River Ecology
- A Struggle for Homeland and Identity
- Large Dams and Power Demand
- The Elephant and The Tragopan
- Social and Environmental Impacts of Large Dams in India
- Kameng Underestimated!
- A Geodynamic Perspective of Arunachal Pradesh
- A Legal Space: Environmental Public Hearings
- Taming the Teesta
- Rounglevaisuo endangered
- The public 'herring'
- Tripura's Gumti Dam Must Go
- Meghalaya – Biodiversity Conservation and Dams
- Large Hydel Projects: Views from Mizoram
- Dams: What they are and what they do
- A short history of damming
- The environmental impacts of large dams
- Ecosystem impacts of large dams
- Large dams: A new policy framework (WCD)
- Some questions, some answers
- Commissioned and proposed projects
- The Power Scenario: An Overview
This special issue of The Ecologist Asia on large dams in Northeast India was published in January-March 2003. It has been a good year-and-a-half since then. But realities remain just as stark. The portent bode by the prospect of large dams in the region are still just ominous. On the occasion of its fifth anniversary, Northeast Vigil brings to you the mindboggling edition to you here on this microsite on dams in Northeast India.
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Northeast Vigil is grateful to the publishers of The Ecologist Asia for making the edition available online here for an audience who will be the first and also the most severely to be affected if such dams are allowed to become a so-called developmental reality.
Notice
The Northeast Vigil website ran from 1999 to 2009. It is not operated or maintained anymore. It has been put up here solely for archival sentiments.
Parts of the old website, especially the extremely popular dams issue, have been resurrected. Other archived material will be uploaded here as and when I am able to salvage those. If at all.
— Subir Ghosh
Parts of the old website, especially the extremely popular dams issue, have been resurrected. Other archived material will be uploaded here as and when I am able to salvage those. If at all.
— Subir Ghosh
Notice
The Northeast Vigil website ran from 1999 to 2009. It is not operated or maintained anymore. It has been put up here solely for archival sentiments.
Parts of the old website, especially the extremely popular dams issue, have been resurrected. Other archived material will be uploaded here as and when I am able to salvage those. If at all.
— Subir Ghosh
Parts of the old website, especially the extremely popular dams issue, have been resurrected. Other archived material will be uploaded here as and when I am able to salvage those. If at all.
— Subir Ghosh