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Damming the rivers of the Amazon basin
Edgardo M. Latrubesse ,
Eugenio Y. Arima ,
Thomas Dunne ,
Edward Park ,
Victor R. Baker ,
Fernando M. d’Horta ,
Charles Wight ,
Florian Wittmann ,
Jansen Zuanon ,
Paul A. Baker ,
Camila C. Ribas ,
Richard B. Norgaard ,
Naziano Filizola ,
Atif Ansar ,
Bent Flyvbjerg ,
Jose C. Stevaux
June 14 2017
June 14 2017
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Abstract
More than a hundred hydropower dams have already been built in the Amazon basin and numerous proposals for further dam constructions are under consideration. The accumulated negative environmental effects of existing dams and proposed dams, if constructed, will trigger massive hydrophysical and biotic disturbances that