’...a must read for anyone seriously interested in the Sanxia project as well as providing useful information about recent changes in Chinese policy formulation.’ Dr Richard Louis Edmonds, University of London, UK ’Heggelund’s monograph takes us on a fascinating journey, historical and analytical, along the tortuous decision making process for building the world’s largest, most extraordinary hydropower dam...A vast readership -engineers and political scientists, sociologists and economists, anthropologists and geographers, policy makers and development practitioners-as well as future programs of dam building, stand to learn and benefit from Heggelund’s work.’ Professor Michael M. Cernea,George Washington University, USA and Former Senior Adviser for Social Policy of the World Bank