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Critically evaluate the costs and benefits associated with the Tucurui Dam Project in Brazil - Do you feel that this scheme was justified?
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Assignment 2: Water November 2003 Critically evaluate the costs and benefits associated with the Tucurui Dam Project in Brazil. Do you feel that this scheme was justified? With 45 000 large dams throughout the world, it is clear that dams have made a crucial assistance to human development, and the advantages derived from them have been significant. Similar to all development options, assessments on dams and their alternatives must consider a vast range of requirements, expectations, aims and confinements. Dams have both costs and benefits, making these costs and benefits balance is a exceedingly delicate task. In several cases an inappropriate and often unnecessary cost has been made to achieve those benefits, particularly in social and environmental terms; the Tucurui Dam in Brazil being one of these cases. The Tucuruí Dam is situated on the lower Tocantins River within the Tocantins-Araguaia River Basin adjacent to the Amazon basin in north-eastern Brazil....
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