Development model In the XXth century, dams were synonymous with development and economic progress. A lot of them were built and there are now about 50 000 dams over 15 metres and about 800 000 dams with a lesser height. We have now realised that these structures bring many disadvantages; they are features of a development model that is increasingly challenged. (1)
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Marc Ona Essangui
Marc Ona Essangui, who won the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2009 for his fight to preserve the Ivindo National Park in Gabon,...
Designed to recognize grassroots environmental heroes, the Goldman Environmental Prize, founded by Richard and Rhoda Goldman in 1989 In San Francisco, is awarded annually to individuals from the six inhabited continental regions for sustained and significant efforts to...
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