Hydropolitics: The Itaipu Dam, Sovereignty, and the Engineering of Modern South America

by Christine Folch and Professor Christine Folch

Book Overview

An in-depth look at the people and institutions connected with the Itaipu Dam, the world's biggest producer of renewable energy

Hydropolitics is a groundbreaking investigation of the world's largest power plant and the ways the energy we use shapes politics and economics. Itaipu Binational Hydroelectric Dam straddles the Paraná River border that divides the two countries that equally co-own the dam, Brazil and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 069118660X
• ISBN13: 9780691186603
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"