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Title: | Domesticating a White Elephant: Sustainability and Struggles over Water, the Case of Cahora Bassa Dam |
Author: | Isaacman, Allen F. |
Year: | 2001 |
Periodical: | Zambezia (ISSN 0379-0622) |
Volume: | 28 |
Issue: | 2 |
Pages: | 199-228 |
Language: | English |
Notes: | biblio. refs. |
Geographic terms: | Mozambique East Africa |
Subjects: | dams Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment Development and Technology Environment, Ecology Cahora Bassa Dam Environmental impact analysis sustainable development political science history |
External link: | https://d.lib.msu.edu/juz/740/OBJ/download |
Abstract: | Few water resource systems have been the object of more sustained military activity than Mozambique's Cahora Bassa hydroelectric project located on the Zambesi River. While it is difficult to distinguish the environmental and social disruption that the dam precipitated from the disruption caused by the war, and the extent to which they were interconnected, it is certain that the construction of Cahora Bassa adversely affected the economic security of hundreds of thousands of peasant households and irrevocably altered the biophysical relations of the Lower Zambesi, from the reservoir to the coastal regions. Based largely on the oral testimonies of the communities affected by the dam, the author examines how the socioeconomic and ecological changes brought about by Cahora Bassa dam and South Africa's destabilization campaign affected people's access to resources, their ability to utilize these resources effectively and their long-term security and survival. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. |