Aging Dams, Dam Removal, and Sustainable Development
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Khagram, Sanjeev
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University of Washington Water Center
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Khagram will discuss adaptive management of existing dams for sustainable development. He will review environmental impacts and mitigation, social impacts, decision making and governance, water quality and human health and safety. Finally, he will talk about decommissioning dams, and policy and practice implications.
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dams (hydrology, sustainable development, construction industry, cost benefit analysis, governmental programs and projects, water power, water supply, irrigation, risk reduction, environmental impact, social impact, indigenous peoples, decision making, government and administration, monitoring, reservoirs, water policy, water management, water quality, floods, maintenance and repair, human health and safety, durability, water