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  1. River management in an emerging country: China's Three Gorges Dam

    The Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River, the world's largest river management scheme, provides flood control, powers cities, promotes tourism and shipping, and supplements water supply. Over 1.25 million people were displaced due to the dam's construction. The dam's location in an earthquake-prone region leads to frequent landslides.

  2. Case study: Three Gorges Dam

    The Three Gorges dam originally began construction in 1992, on a chokepoint of the River Yangtze. Only being finished recently in 2012, there are many benefits and disadvantages that have come with its construction.

  3. Case Study: The Three Gorges Dam

    Case Study: The Three Gorges Dam. The 3 Gorges Dam project - China. This is an example of a large scale development project designed to: Create more jobs. Allow large ships to navigate the river and reach Chungong Create thousands of jobs Develop new towns and farms. Provide 10% of China's electricity through HEP Increase tourism along the river.

  4. Three Gorges Dam case study Flashcards

    Three Gorges Dam case study. Flashcards; Learn; Test; Match; Q-Chat; Get a hint. What is the project designed to do? Control flooding on the Yangtze, improve water supply by regulating water supply, generate HEP, and make the river navigable. 1 / 6. 1 / 6. Flashcards; Learn; Test; Match; Q-Chat; Created by. wdcl117. Created 3 years ago.

  5. Three Gorges Dam Case Study Flashcards

    Study with Quizlet and memorize flashcards containing terms like Aim of the Three Gorges Dam (energy), Aim of the Three Gorges Dam (flooding), Aim of the Three Gorges Dam (shipping) and more.

  6. The Three Gorges Project

    In this Geography Factsheet you will find: • Introduction to the Three Gorge Project. • The purpose of building the dam. • The Chang catchment breakdown. • Analysis of how effective the dam project was. • Cost benefit analysis of the project.

  7. GCSE case study: Three Gorges Dam Flashcards

    Study with Quizlet and memorise flashcards containing terms like Location and size, Economic issues, Social issues and others. ... GCSE case study: Three Gorges Dam. Flashcards; Learn; Test; Match; Q-Chat; Get a hint. Location and size-Yangtze River, China-2.3km long and 100m high (largest hard engineering project ever undertaken on a river)

  8. Three Gorges Dam, China

    Three Gorges Dam, China Subject: Geography Age range: 11-14 Resource type: Lesson (complete) File previews ppt, 1.37 MB pptx, 117.56 KB pub, 97 KB docx, 26.66 KB Success Failure Sucess Flood Tes classic free licence ritson5

  9. The Three Gorges Dam, China

    The Three Gorges Dam, China. The Three Gorges is a narrow, steep sided part of the Yangtze River, at five thousand kilometres one of the world's longest rivers. The valley is home to over four hundred million people and provides over sixty per cent of Chinas rice crop. In 1992 the Chinese government agreed to building the Three Gorges Dam.

  10. Three Gorges Dam

    Three Gorges Dam. This lesson is designed to last for 1 hour and is resourced with videos, extension questioning, deep thinking and uses graphs/images to aid learning. This lesson follows the Edexcel KS4 curriculum and looks at the three gorges dam for their case study about how a country has managed their river.

  11. The Three Gorges DAM

    The Three Gorges Dam (TGD) on the Yangtze River is the focus of one of the case studies and will be reviewed for the social, economic and environmental costs and benefits. The commission plans to investigate the pros and cons of building the TGD. Read the Letter of Invitation.

  12. Project in-depth: The Three Gorges Dam, China

    Chinese officials assert that the Three Gorges Dam has been successful in preventing floodwaters from spreading, despite the destruction. China Three Gorges Corporation, the dam's operator, informed China's official news agency Xinhua that 18.2 billion cubic meters of potential floodwater had been caught by the dam.

  13. Three Gorges Dam

    Three Gorges Dam, dam on the Yangtze River (Chang Jiang) just west of the city of Yichang in China. The largest dam in the world, it allows the navigation of oceangoing freighters, generates hydroelectric power, and may offer flood protection. Learn more about the Three Gorges Dam.

  14. PDF A struggle for power in china

    The TGD power station produces 84 terawatt-hours of elec- tricity annually, which is more than four times the energy produced by the largest U.S. dam, the Grand Coulee. China currently has plans to add A Struggle for Power in China: The Three Gorges Dam Figure 1. The top of Three Gorges Dam, China (Photo by D. Hua).

  15. GCSE Case Study: The Three Gorges Dam

    Updated Dec. 15, 2015. Transcript. GCSE Case Study: The Three Gorges Dam. Objective: To be able to discuss the advantages and disadvantages of large dam construction with specific reference to the Three Gorges Dam. HEP stands for? Reservoir?

  16. Three Gorges Dam Case Study sheet- potential homework or pairs computer

    Template for the Three Gorges Dam, with extension evaluation task at the bottom and scaffolded tasks. With LA groups, I use a video and pause and demonstrate answers on the board, they usually have a lot of questions about the dam and how they work.

  17. Case Study on The Three Gorges Dam in China

    25th January 2007. Introduction. The Three Gorges Dam project, presently being built on the Chinese River Yangtze and it is know to be the world's largest dam and one of the most controversial public works of modern times. The proposed 2.3km long by 185m tall, concrete hydroelectric dam is to cross the river around 400km west of the city of ...

  18. PDF Three Gorges Dam Project, Yangtze River, China

    The Project The Three Gorges Dam stretches more than two kilometers across one of the greatest rivers in the world, the Yangtze. The dam was built in a stretch of the Yangtze known as Three Gorges because of the canyons formed by immense limestone cliffs.

  19. GCSE case study: Three Gorges Dam Flashcards

    Study with Quizlet and memorize flashcards containing terms like Location and size, Economic issues, Social issues and more.

  20. Hoover Dam Facts and Information

    A case studies activity sheet, which features Hoover Dam facts and information, Aswan Dam information and Three Gorges Dam facts and figures An activity sheet where children will debate the benefits and disadvantages of dams.

  21. Eutrophication Risk Assessment of Tributaries in the Three Gorges

    Eutrophication Risk Assessment of Tributaries in the Three Gorges Reservoir: A Case Study of the Pengxi River ... The Wuyang regulating dam is the only dam in the three Gorges Reservoir, and it forms a min- iature model of the three Gorges reservoir. Therefore, the Peng- xi River has become a region with unique geographical condi-

  22. GCSE Case Study: The Three Gorges Dam

    GCSE Case Study: The Three Gorges Dam Objective: To be able to discuss the advantages and disadvantages of large dam construction with specific reference to the Three Gorges Dam HEP stands for? Reservoir? Turbine? Where? What? Why? How?

  23. Advancing reservoir landslide stability assessment via TS-InSAR and

    Study area. As depicted in Fig. 1a, the Daping landslide group is situated on the north bank of the Yangtze River in Badong County, approximately 3 km away from the center of Badong County and 61 km away from the Three Gorges Dam. The SAR satellite Sentinel-1 data for path 84 provides complete coverage of the study area, which is predominantly mountainous and has high elevation differences ...