Big Dams: Costly Gamble for Water Security, Environment

John Kandulu; Sarah Wheeler; Richard Kingsford

Big Dams: Costly Gamble for Water Security, Environment

John Kandulu, Sarah Wheeler, Richard Kingsford

Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

Abstract

Climate change and biodiversity loss are mounting threats to Australia's water security. So we often hear calls for more dams . But is that the answer?

Our recent research reveals large dam projects are costly gambles with public money. They often fail to deliver promised economic benefits. They also have major environmental, financial and social impacts.

Original language	English
Specialist publication	The Mirage
Publication status	Published - 29 Oct 2024

Keywords

water security
resource management
Australia

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Access to Document

https://www.miragenews.com/big-dams-costly-gamble-for-water-security-1345798/

Cite this

@misc{0c4e3a8e3667450aac52e377657e09a8,

title = "Big Dams: Costly Gamble for Water Security, Environment",

abstract = "Climate change and biodiversity loss are mounting threats to Australia's water security. So we often hear calls for more dams . But is that the answer?Our recent research reveals large dam projects are costly gambles with public money. They often fail to deliver promised economic benefits. They also have major environmental, financial and social impacts.",

keywords = "water security, resource management, Australia",

author = "John Kandulu and Sarah Wheeler and Richard Kingsford",

year = "2024",

month = oct,

day = "29",

language = "English",

journal = "The Mirage",

}

TY - GEN

T1 - Big Dams

T2 - Costly Gamble for Water Security, Environment

AU - Kandulu, John

AU - Wheeler, Sarah

AU - Kingsford, Richard

PY - 2024/10/29

Y1 - 2024/10/29

N2 - Climate change and biodiversity loss are mounting threats to Australia's water security. So we often hear calls for more dams . But is that the answer?Our recent research reveals large dam projects are costly gambles with public money. They often fail to deliver promised economic benefits. They also have major environmental, financial and social impacts.

AB - Climate change and biodiversity loss are mounting threats to Australia's water security. So we often hear calls for more dams . But is that the answer?Our recent research reveals large dam projects are costly gambles with public money. They often fail to deliver promised economic benefits. They also have major environmental, financial and social impacts.

KW - water security

KW - resource management

KW - Australia

M3 - Article

JO - The Mirage

JF - The Mirage

ER -

Big Dams: Costly Gamble for Water Security, Environment

Abstract

Keywords

UN SDGs

Access to Document

Fingerprint

Cite this