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Eco-Politics of Dams on the Gambia River

In the 1980s, USAID (US Agency for International Development) funded an
environmental assessment of dams on the Gambia River, which determined that construction of the
Balingho anti-salinity barrage would result in adverse unmitigative environmental and social
consequences. Attempts by host country politicians, USAID and UNDP (United Nations
Development Programme) to discredit this process made it necessary to take the matter to the
Natural Resource Defense Council. A case study of the events surrounding these dams and their
potential construction illustrates the ‘big dam’ paradigm and its potential harm to people, their
livelihoods and the environment in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:tut/oai:encore.tut.ac.za:d1000830
Date30 January 2010
CreatorsDegeorges, A, Reilly, BK
PublisherRoutledge
Source SetsSouth African National ETD Portal
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeText
FormatPdf
Rights2007 Taylor & Francis
RelationWater Resources Development

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