Dams in the Amazon river basin have induced confrontations among developers, governmental officials, indigenous populations and environmentalists. Amazonian hydroelectric dams are usually justified on the basis that they supply the energy needed for economic development in a renewable form that...

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...

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...