1. Forced Mobility and Energy Resources
... 1994, the Three Gorges Dam Project (TGP), regarded as "the world's largest hydropower project," began it's construction and was completed to be at full capacity in 2008 (Fu, Wu, Lü, Xu, Cao, Niu, Yang, Zhou, 2010). The dam itself spans the Yangtze River at 2335 m long and 185 m high, with a total area of 58,000km2 (Brown, Magee, & Xu, 2008 ... to vulnerable ecosystems, an example of such being the Chinese river dolphin (baiji) – a "living fossil of a 30-million-year-old species geographically unique to the Yangtze River" (Wu, Huang, Han, Xie, & Gao, 2003). Habitat fragmentation, alte...
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