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The Three Gorges Dam and its impacts. The construction of the Three Gorges Dam creates enormous hydroelectric power, while it also causes some negative environmental impacts.
13 Ιουλ 2019 · The resulting Three Gorges Reservoir (TGR) extends 660 km along the waterway of the Yangtze River in surrounded by complicated terrain. The dam and its impounded reservoir has triggered large-scale land use and land cover change, which can potentially impact the environment and climate significantly.
1 Αυγ 2008 · Although the risk of an earthquake powerful enough to bring down Three Gorges Dam is remote, the reservoir's impoundment has undeniably wrought massive changes on its surroundings. Currently, 632 square kilometers of terrain are under water.
The idea of building a gigantic dam on the Yangtze River in the Three Gorges area was proposed more than 80 years ago by Sun Yat-sen. After severe flooding along the river in the 1950s, Chairman Mao Tse Tung vowed to speed up construction of a massive dam but nothing significant happened for several more decades. In 1986, the
The Three Gorges Dam is one of several huge projects that are transforming China’s environment. They include the recent completion of the world’s highest rail-way across the Tibetan Plateau and a plan to divert billions of cubic meters of water each year from the Yangtze and other.
9 Αυγ 2019 · The resulting Three Gorges Reservoir (TGR) extends 660 km along the waterway of the Yangtze River in surrounded by complicated terrain. The dam and its impounded reservoir has triggered large‐scale land use and land cover change, which can potentially impact the environment and climate significantly.
7 Δεκ 2020 · The socioecological issues with the dam are undoubtedly huge. In this StoryMap, I aim not to evaluate or break-down every issue that arises from the dam, but to use the dam as a setting in which a stark juxtaposition between humans and landscape exists across time and space.
