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This book highlights the first comparative long-term analysis of the negative impacts of large dams on riverine communities and on free-flowing rivers in Africa, the Middle East and Asia.�Following the Foreword by Professor Asit K. Biswas, the first section covers the 1956�1973 period, when the author believed that large dams provided an exceptional opportunity for integrated river basin development. In turn, the second section (1976�1997) reflects the author�s increasing concerns about the magnitude of the socio-economic and environmental costs of large dams, while the third (1998�2018) discusses why large dams are in fact not cost-effective in the long term.Typham this is the title: Large Dams Long Term Impacts on Riverine Communities and Free Flowing Rivers