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Environmental impact assessments of the Three Gorges Project in China: issues and interventions
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21st Century Economic Report
21st Century Economic Report
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Bi
Cai
Cernea
Chen
Chinese News Net
Chongqing Municipal Bureau of Statistics
Chongqing’s Environmental Monitoring Station of Soil and Water Conservation (CEMSSWC)
Deif
Duan
Chinese Academy of Science), RIPYWR (Research Institute for Protection of Yangtze Water Resources) EIADCAS (Environment Impact Assessmenet Department
Fu
Gao
Gleick
Gong
Graf
Guishan Yang
Guo
Guo
Guo
Hu
Huang
Huang
Ivan
Liang
Liao
Liu
Liu
Lu
Melis
Millikan
Ministry of Environmental Protection of the People's Republic of China (MEPPRC)
Ministry of Environmental Protection of the People’s Republic of China (MEPPRC)
Ministry of Land and Resources (MLR)
Morales
National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC)
National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC)
National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC)
Pittock
Pottinger
Renmin Yangzi Newspaper
Sedimentation Panel of the Three Gorges Project (SPTGP)
Sichuan Provincial Bureau of Statistics
Staged Assessment Group of Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAESAGTGP)
State Council Three Gorges Project Construction Committee Executive Office (SCTGPCCEO)
Stone
Stone
Talwani
Tan
Three Gorges Project Ecology and Environment Monitoring System Information Management Center (TGPEEMSIMC)
Tullos
United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP)
Wang
Wang
White
Wu
Wu
Wu
Xibao Xu
Xinhua News Agency
Xinhua News Agency
Xinhua News Agency
Xu
Xu
Yan Tan
Yang
Yang
Yang
Yangzi Water Resource Commission (YWRC)
Yangzi Water Resource Commission (YWRC)
Ye
Zhang
Zhang
Publication date
1 January 2013
Publisher
'Elsevier BV'
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Abstract
The paper takes China's authoritative Environmental Impact Statement for the Yangzi (Yangtze) Three Gorges Project (TGP) in 1992 as a benchmark against which to evaluate emerging major environmental outcomes since the initial impoundment of the Three Gorges reservoir in 2003. The paper particularly examines five crucial environmental aspects and associated causal factors. The five domains include human resettlement and the carrying capacity of local environments (especially land), water quality, reservoir sedimentation and downstream riverbed erosion, soil erosion, and seismic activity and geological hazards. Lessons from the environmental impact assessments of the TGP are: (1) hydro project planning needs to take place at a broader scale, and a strategic environmental assessment at a broader scale is necessary in advance of individual environmental impact assessments; (2) national policy and planning adjustments need to react quickly to the impact changes of large projects; (3) long-term environmental monitoring systems and joint operations with other large projects in the upstream areas of a river basin should be established, and the cross-impacts of climate change on projects and possible impacts of projects on regional or local climate considered. © 2013 Elsevier B.V.Xibao Xu, Yan Tan, Guishan Yan
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