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https://repositorio.inpa.gov.br/handle/1/17101| Title: | Damming the rivers of the Amazon basin |
| Authors: | Latrubesse, Edgardo Manuel Arima, Eugenio Yatsuda Dunne, Thomas Park, Edward Baker, Victor R. D'Horta, Fernando Mendonça Wight, Charles Wittmann, Florian Karl Zuanon, Jansen Baker, Paul A. Ribas, Camila Cherem Norgaard, Richard B. Filizola, Naziano Pantoja Ansar, Atif Flyvbjerg, Bent Stevaux, José Cândido |
| Keywords: | Biotic Factor Dam Construction Environmental Degradation Floodplain Index Method River Basin Catchment Environmental Aspects And Related Phenomena Estuary Hydropower Madeira Particle Resuspension Priority Journal Review River River Basin Sediment Decision Making Ecology Ecosystem Electric Power Plant Environmental Protection International Cooperation River Water Flow Amazon Basin Conservation Of Natural Resources Decision Making Ecology Ecosystem Geologic Sediments International Cooperation Power Plants Rivers Water Movements |
| Issue Date: | 2017 |
| metadata.dc.publisher.journal: | Nature |
| metadata.dc.relation.ispartof: | Volume 546, Número 7658, Pags. 363-369 |
| 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 will affect the Amazon basin's floodplains, estuary and sediment plume. We introduce a Dam Environmental Vulnerability Index to quantify the current and potential impacts of dams in the basin. The scale of foreseeable environmental degradation indicates the need for collective action among nations and states to avoid cumulative, far-reaching impacts. We suggest institutional innovations to assess and avoid the likely impoverishment of Amazon rivers. © 2017 Macmillan Publishers Limited, part of Springer Nature. All rights reserved. |
| metadata.dc.identifier.doi: | 10.1038/nature22333 |
| Appears in Collections: | Artigos |
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