Dams as Aid

• Part I Introduction 1 ABOUT THE BOOK, THE CONTRIBUTORS AND WHAT THIS BOOK IS NOT ABOUT 2 REFLECTIONS ON POWER: THREE SCENES FROM THE END OF AN ERA Part II Nordic dams 3 MORATORIUM IN SWEDEN: AN ACCOUNT OF THE DAMS DEBATE 4 THE DAMS INSIDE 5 THE LAST BIG DAM IN NORWAY: WHOSE VICTORY? Part III Nordic dam builders in the south 6 THE MECHANISM OF ‘PERVASIVE APPRAISAL OPTIMISM' Laos 7 VATTENFALL ABROAD: DAMMING THE THEUN RIVER Tanzania 8 PANGANI DAM VERSUS THE PEOPLE 9 PANGANI POWER STRUGGLE: NORDIC DAM BUILDERS ON A TANZANIAN RIVER Chile 10 KVAERNER’S GAME 11 IN DEFENCE OF THE BIOBÍO RIVER

B'Ann Danaiya Usher has carried out something that, in many different ways, is a pioneering work. - Forests, Trees and People'It is extremely valuable to find all this published in hard covers' - W. M. Adams, Department of Geography, Cambridge University, Development and Change