Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Three Gorges Damn, China
Top-down strategy
- Positives
- Helps with flood control, protects
100million people from flooding
- Generates 22,500 MW of power
- Large ships can now use the
Yangtze river, improving
trade
- Created jobs
- Reduces the need for coal fired
powerstations, meaning there's
less pollution and cleaner air
- Negatives
- 1.3million people had to relocate,
recieving little compensation
- Yangtze wildlife species threatened,
particularly the Yangtze dolphin
- Silt will get trapped behind the dam,
and in 50 years this will cause
problems for flood control
- Pollution from sewage, farm and industrial waste
- Farmers downstream will no longer receive the annual
floodwaters which irrigate their land
- The dam is built on fault lines
- Tourism has been negatively affected
- Very expensive (US$26billion)