An in-depth look at the people and institutions connected with the Itaip Dam, the world's biggest producer of renewable energy
Hydropolitics is a groundbreaking investigation of the world's largest power plant and the ways the energy we use shapes politics and economics. Itaipu Binational Hydroelectric Dam straddles the Paraná River border that divides the two countries that equally co-own it, Brazil and Paraguay. It generates the carbon-free electricity that powers industry in both the giant of South America and one of the smallest economies of the region. Based on unprecedented access to energy decision makers, Christine Folch reveals how Paraguayans harness the dam to engineer wealth, power, and sovereignty, demonstrating how energy capture influences social structures.
During the dam's construction under the right-wing Alfredo Stroessner military government and later during the leftist presidency of liberation theologian Fernando Lugo, the dam became central to debates about development, governance, and prosperity. Dams not only change landscapes; Folch asserts that the properties of water, transmuted by dams, change states. Folch argues that the dam converts water into electricity and money to produce hydropolitics through its physical infrastructure, the financial liquidity of energy monies, and the international legal agreements managing transboundary water resources between Brazil and Paraguay, and their neighbors Argentina, Bolivia, and Uruguay.
Looking at the fraught political discussions about the future of the world's single largest producer of renewable energy, Hydropolitics explores how this massive public works project touches the lives of all who are linked to it.
Автор: Folch Christine Название: Hydropolitics: The Itaipъ Dam, Sovereignty, and the Engineering of Modern South America ISBN: 069118660X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691186603 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 29570.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: An in-depth look at the people and institutions connected with the Itaipoe Dam, the world`s biggest producer of renewable energy, Hydropolitics is a groundbreaking investigation of the world`s largest power plant and the ways energy shapes politics and economics.ics.
Название: Land and Hydropolitics in the Nile River Basin ISBN: 0367029693 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367029692 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 46950.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This book investigates the water, land and energy nexus in the Nile basin.
Автор: Bruyninckx Название: Sustainable Development and Subnational Governments ISBN: 0230360521 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780230360525 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 81050.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This book highlights the importance of the subnational level of governance in relation to sustainable development, exploring how subnational governments have taken up the challenge to design sustainable development policies and their involvement in international decision-making on sustainable development.
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