Gørild Merethe Heggelund is a Senior Research Fellow at The Fridtjof Nansen Institute, Norway

• Contents: Introduction; The Three Gorges project: a story of development and modernization; Analytical framework; Resettlement experience in China; The Three Gorges project resettlement policy change: implementation challenges; China's environmental policymaking: trends and developments 1972-2001;The Three Gorges project environmental developments - 1972-2001: linkage between resettlement and environment; China's changing shape of decision-making and the Three Gorges project: interaction between leadership, knowledge and media; Conclusions; Bibliography; Index.

’...a must read for anyone seriously interested in the Sanxia project as well as providing useful information about recent changes in Chinese policy formulation.’ Dr Richard Louis Edmonds, University of London, UK ’Heggelund’s monograph takes us on a fascinating journey, historical and analytical, along the tortuous decision making process for building the world’s largest, most extraordinary hydropower dam...A vast readership -engineers and political scientists, sociologists and economists, anthropologists and geographers, policy makers and development practitioners-as well as future programs of dam building, stand to learn and benefit from Heggelund’s work.’ Professor Michael M. Cernea,George Washington University, USA and Former Senior Adviser for Social Policy of the World Bank