Discovering Dependencies, Trade‐Offs, and Robustness in Joint Dam Design and Operation: An Ex‐Post Assessment of the Kariba Dam

Abstract Globally, many countries are actively seeking to maximize the hydropower potential of major river basins, yielding proposals for constructing approximately 3,700 major dams in the near future. At present, economic cost‐benefit analyses are the dominant approach for evaluating candidate dam...

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Main Authors: F. Bertoni, A. Castelletti, M. Giuliani, P. M. Reed
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Geophysical Union (AGU) 2019-12-01
Series:Earth's Future
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1029/2019EF001235