Balancing hydropower and biodiversity in the Amazon, Congo, and Mekong

A global boom in hydropower dam construction

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Engineering, Civil Engineering, Construction Management +14

Trading-off fish biodiversity, food security, and hydropower in the Mekong River Basin

Guy Ziv, Eric Baran, So Nam et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2012 · 952 citations · Full text

Natural Resources, Fisheries, Water Resources Management +14

Should we build more large dams? The actual costs of hydropower megaproject development

Atif Ansar, Bent Flyvbjerg, Alexander Budzier et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2014 · 736 citations · Full text

Business, Decision Sciences, Risk Management +13

An index-based framework for assessing patterns and trends in river fragmentation and flow regulation by global dams at multiple scales

Günther Grill, Bernhard Lehner, Alexander E. Lumsdon et al. · Environmental Research Letters · 2015 · 639 citations · Full text

Natural Resources, Civil Engineering, Hydrology +17

Theoretical reservoir ecology and its applications

José Galízia Tundisi, Milan Straškraba · 1999 · 578 citations

Engineering, Ecology, Reservoir Characterization +10