The Amazon's largest dam is nearly complete. But the social and environmental costs of huge hydropower projects are just not worth it.
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Emeritus Professor of Anthropology, Goldsmiths, University of London
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Senior Lecturer in Politics, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Associate Lecturer in Human Geography and Environment, University of York
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Teaching Fellow, School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol
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Professor of Conservation Science, Lancaster University
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Senior Research Associate, University of Oxford
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Lecturer in Tropical Ecology, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Researcher in Ecology, Federal University of Pará
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Lecturer in Political Ecology, Lancaster University
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Professor of Zoology, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil and Visiting Scholar, Harvard University
