Peter Bosshard
Biographic Data
| ID | 275296 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Bosshard |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Bosshard |
| SIGNATURE | BOSSHARD P |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
China's Global Dam Builder at a Crossroads
Since the turn of the century, Sinohydro has become the world's dominant dam builder. The company is engaged in an ongoing dialogue with International Rivers, having prepared a strong environmental policy framework in 2011. Yet Sinohydro is now considering building a series of highly destructive dam projects. The world's biggest hydropower contractor is at a crossroads
Holding Chinese Investors to Account: Environmental Impacts
With toxins in the air and dead pigs in the rivers, environmental destruction has become a huge topic in China. The government has closed down hundreds of polluting factories, banks have refused lending for polluters, and protests have derailed numerous destructive projects. For Chinese companies, environmental risks have become business risks.The same is true internationally. Chinese banks, mining and hydropower companies have faced protests and…
Will Fukushima Make China Reconsider Its Hydropower Boom
While the Three Gorges Dam was under construction, it was celebrated by China's leaders as a symbol of economic and technological progress. With a capacity of 18,200 megawatts, it is the world's biggest hydropower plant and generates about 2 percent of the country's electricity. Yet since the dam project was completed in 2008, its massive social, environmental and geological impacts have become ever more apparent. At the same time, recurrent drou…
China's Overseas Dam Builders: From Rogue Players to Responsible Actors
In the early years of the new century, Chinese dam builders and financiers appeared on the global hydropower market with a bang. China Exim Bank and companies such as Sinohydro, China Gezhouba Group and China Southern Power Grid started to take on large, destructive projects in countries like Burma and Sudan, which had previously been shunned by the international community. Their emergence threatened to roll back progress regarding human rights a…
Lessons from China's Three Gorges Dam
The world's largest hydropower project has reached its final dimensions. Peter Bosshard draws conclusions from the Three Gorges experience.Fifteen years after construction started, the water level of the Three Gorges reservoir is scheduled to reach its final height of 175 meters this fall. After 27 million cubic meters of cement have been poured, 39 cubic kilometers of water have been stored, and 1.3 million people have been resettled, it is time…
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Dammed Project
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Lessons from China's Three Gorges Dam
The world's largest hydropower project has reached its final dimensions. Peter Bosshard draws conclusions from the Three Gorges experience.Fifteen years after construction started, the water level of the Three Gorges reservoir is scheduled to reach its final height of 175 meters this fall. After 27 million cubic meters of cement have been poured, 39 cubic kilometers of water have been stored, and 1.3 million people have been resettled, it is time…
China's Overseas Dam Builders: From Rogue Players to Responsible Actors
In the early years of the new century, Chinese dam builders and financiers appeared on the global hydropower market with a bang. China Exim Bank and companies such as Sinohydro, China Gezhouba Group and China Southern Power Grid started to take on large, destructive projects in countries like Burma and Sudan, which had previously been shunned by the international community. Their emergence threatened to roll back progress regarding human rights a…
Will Fukushima Make China Reconsider Its Hydropower Boom
While the Three Gorges Dam was under construction, it was celebrated by China's leaders as a symbol of economic and technological progress. With a capacity of 18,200 megawatts, it is the world's biggest hydropower plant and generates about 2 percent of the country's electricity. Yet since the dam project was completed in 2008, its massive social, environmental and geological impacts have become ever more apparent. At the same time, recurrent drou…
Holding Chinese Investors to Account: Environmental Impacts
With toxins in the air and dead pigs in the rivers, environmental destruction has become a huge topic in China. The government has closed down hundreds of polluting factories, banks have refused lending for polluters, and protests have derailed numerous destructive projects. For Chinese companies, environmental risks have become business risks.The same is true internationally. Chinese banks, mining and hydropower companies have faced protests and…
China's Global Dam Builder at a Crossroads
Since the turn of the century, Sinohydro has become the world's dominant dam builder. The company is engaged in an ongoing dialogue with International Rivers, having prepared a strong environmental policy framework in 2011. Yet Sinohydro is now considering building a series of highly destructive dam projects. The world's biggest hydropower contractor is at a crossroads
Political science (5 works) · China (4 works) · Hydropower, Displacement, Environmental Impact (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Business (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · Geology (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Boom (1 works)