Dam diplomacy? China’s new neighbourhood policy and Chinese dam-building companies

2020 ◽  
pp. 139-158
Author(s):  
Carla P. Freeman
Keyword(s):  
Dam Building

ECOLOGICAL PROBLEMS IN MODERN PROSE: ROMAN SENCHIN FLOOD ZONE

2020 ◽  
pp. 189-195
Author(s):  
V. V. Sazanov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Modern Art ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Flood Zone ◽  
Moral Position ◽  
Ecological Problems ◽  
Dam Building

The article deals with the modern art novel The Flood Zone by R. V. Senchin, where the author raises current environmental problems. The article examines the Boguchany Dam building consequences and the stylistic devices of the novel. The option of considering the text as the warning novel and finding the connection with the predecessor writers in the moral position expression is specified.

scholarly journals The plant communities of classes Hydrochari-lemnetea Oberd. 1967 and Potametea tx. Et Prsg. 1942 of the Labudovo okno locality (Serbia)

2008 ◽  
pp. 101-107
Author(s):  
Dubravka Polic ◽  
Ruzica Igic ◽  
Slobodanka Stojanovic ◽  
Dejana Lazic
Keyword(s):  
Plant Communities ◽  
Hydroelectric Power Station ◽  
Left Bank ◽  
Hydroelectric Power ◽  
The South ◽  
Power Station ◽  
South Eastern ◽  
Dam Building

Labudovo okno locality (50 m-84 m elevation) is situated in the south-eastern part of the edge of the Pannonian Plains, resting along the left bank of the Danube between 1982 km and 1078 km. The investigated locality is the result of rise of the Danube level after dam building of the hydroelectric power station Djerdap I. The vegetation comprises aquatic associations of the classes Hydrochari-Lemnetea Oberd. 1967 and Potametea Tx. et Prsg. 1942. The class Hydrochari-Lemnetea Oberd. 1967 includes the following phytocoenoses: Lemno-Spirodeletum W. Koch 1954, Salvinio-Spirodeletum polyrrhizae Slavnic 1956, Lemno minoris-Azolletum filiculoides Br.-Bl. 1952, Ceratophylletum demersi (So? 27) Hild 1956. The class Potametea Tx. et Prsg. 1942 includes the associations Myriophyllo-Potametum So? 1934, Nympaeetum albo-luteae Nowinski 1928, Trapetum natantis M?lleret G?rs 1960.

A Watershed Moment

2020 ◽  
pp. 71-100
Author(s):  
Marcus DuBois King
Keyword(s):  
River System ◽  
Regional Security ◽  
Regional Government ◽  
Water Conflict ◽  
Euphrates River ◽  
Iraqi Kurdistan ◽  
Dam Building ◽  
Changing Demographics ◽  
Political Leverage

Chapter 4 establishes Iraqi Kurdistan as a de-facto riparian actor the Tigris and Euphrates River System explaining that it is blessed with abundant water resources that are now under increasing stress. Changing demographics, dam building in neighbouring countries, and drought have brought Kurdish hydropolitics to a critical juncture where two distinct water futures of abundance or scarcity are possible depending in large part on policy decisions limited by regional security concerns. The chapter problematizes a spectrum of potential water conflict in this context and finds that outbreaks might be sparked by three historical realities: (1) systemic precedence for hydro-hegemonic behaviour—the monopolization of water by a single country—in the Tigris and Euphrates River Basin (2) a record of deployment of the water weapon during contemporary conflicts in Syria and Iraq and (3) conflicting views of ownership and rights to the Tigris and Euphrates river among the riparian countries. Ultimately, the chapter argues that the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) must recognize these realities, and use this understanding to develop a comprehensive strategy that will guarantee sufficient water for Iraqi Kurdistan’s people while maintaining the ability to use water as political leverage in support of designs toward autonomy or, more altruistically, to improve the quality of life for all Iraqis.

scholarly journals Relationship between seismicity and water level in the Enguri high dam area (Georgia) using the singular spectrum analysis

2012 ◽  
Vol 12 (8) ◽  
pp. 2479-2485 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Telesca ◽  
T. Matcharasvili ◽  
T. Chelidze ◽  
N. Zhukova
Keyword(s):  
Water Level ◽  
Spectrum Analysis ◽  
Seismic Activity ◽  
Singular Spectrum Analysis ◽  
Reference Period ◽  
Active Period ◽  
Reservoir Water ◽  
Singular Spectrum ◽  
Dam Building ◽  
Relationship Of

Abstract. The declustered seismic catalog from 1965 to 2010 around the Enguri high dam reservoir in western Georgia was analyzed using the singular spectrum analysis (SSA) technique in order to investigate the relationship of local seismicity with the reservoir water variations. In particular, the seismic activity was analyzed in two periods: a "reference" period, from 1965 to 1970, before the start of dam building in 1971; and an "active" period, from 1978 to 2010, in which the influence of the reservoir was significantly effective on the seismic activity (since the first flooding of the dam occurred in 1978). The SSA was applied to both the monthly number of earthquakes and the time series of the monthly mean of the water level. The first four reconstructed components explained most of the total variance in both seismicity and water level. Clear signatures of the annual oscillation linked with the loading/unloading operations of the dam are present in the periodogram of the second and the third reconstructed components of the seismic activity during the "active" period. Such annual cycle is absent in the periodogram of the reconstructed components of the seismic activity during the "reference" period. This is a clear indication of the reservoir-induced character of the seismicity around the Enguri dam.

Public Archeology In The Crunch

1982 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 16-18
Author(s):  
William Mayer-Oakes
Keyword(s):  
Reagan Administration ◽  
Fiscal Year ◽  
Military Bases ◽  
First Year ◽  
Lead Agency ◽  
Contract Work ◽  
Park Service ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Dam Building ◽  
And Control

During the first year of the Reagan administration U. S. public archeology has had a number of scares, but apparently very few actual losses. The rearrangements made for the lead agency (Interior Department), which saw the elimination of HCRS (Heritage, Recreation and Conservation Services), have apparently resulted in little more than the reestablishment of pre-1976 decentralized regionalization and control by the Natiomu Park Service. Major federal agencies involved in contract archeology and cultural resource management continue to roll along, most of them now with an established cadre of archeologists on the normal payroll. Some agencies (Forest Service) report augmented budgets for the 81-82 fiscal year. California (always a bellwether state) had the busiest summer flurry of contract work ever in 1981—apparently because much of the normal agency "in house" work was rearranged to be done under contract. The small but important Department of Defense archeological establishment (at half a dozen military bases) is being enlarged and consolidated for higher levels of capability—as defense activities and budgets are being favored by the new Republican administration. The Corps of Engineers new thrust away from a "project orientation" and toward a land management stance (as dam building apparently winds down in the U. S.) includes new ideas about how archeology will continue and grow in this prime agency. Thus far, the view is far from doom and gloom for U. S. Public archeology!

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