A fascinating, detailed account of the years-long struggle for redress pursued by thousands of people who were plunged deeper into poverty by the construction of the Dahe dam. To learn more about what goes on behind the scenes in China, this book about the ruinous consequences of one small dam is an excellent place to start. [Full story]
The story of how government officials and dam boosters are manipulating common sense, economics, and politics to promote the world's largest dam project, the Three Gorges dam. A follow-up to 1994's ground-breaking Yangtze! Yangtze! [Full story]
Yangtze! Yangtze! by Dai Qing (Edited by Probe International's Patricia Adams and John G. Thibodeau)
An extraordinary collection of interviews, essays, and statements by Chinese scientists, journalists, and intellectuals opposed to the massive Three Gorges dam on China's Yangtze River. [Full story]
Nine independent experts express their professional outrage at a Canadian government-financed study that recommends building the Three Gorges dam in China, which would require the forcible relocation of one million people and the destruction of one of the world's most magnificent canyons. [Full story]
Despite the raging world-wide controversy over the Third World's debt, no one has posed these most elementary questions: who lent what and to whom, where did the money go, what did it do there, and where is it now. In this brilliant hybrid of detective work and policy analysis, Patricia Adams has unraveled a rats' nest of Third World lending to describe the debt crisis in its startling simplicity. [Full story]
In clear, uncompromising language the book explains where progress went wrong and the remedies needed to prevent foreign aid from doing more of the same in the future. [Full story]
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The Nu River is one of only two
major rivers in China that have not been dammed. (The other
is the Yaluzangbu in Tibet.)
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