Damming the rivers of the Amazon basin

• Main Authors: Latrubesse, Edgardo Manuel, Arima, Eugenio Y., Dunne, Thomas, Park, Edward, Baker, Victor R., D'Horta, Fernando M., Wight, Charles, Wittmann, Florian, Zuanon, Jansen, Baker, Paul A., Ribas, Camila C., Norgaard, Richard B., Filizola, Naziano, Ansar, Atif, Flyvbjerg, Bent, Stevaux, Jose C.
• Other Authors: Asian School of the Environment
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Science::Geology; Ecosystem Ecology; Environmental Impact
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/143278
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

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 biot...