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Reviews of Web Sites, CD Roms, Books Author(S): Fani Kakridi Enz Source: Mountain Research and Development, 21(1):94-95 Reviews of Web Sites, CD ROMs, Books Author(s): Fani Kakridi Enz Source: Mountain Research and Development, 21(1):94-95. Published By: International Mountain Society DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1659/0276-4741(2001)021[0094:]2.0.CO;2 URL: http://www.bioone.org/doi/full/10.1659/0276-4741%282001%29021%5B0094%3A%5D2.0.CO %3B2 BioOne (www.bioone.org) is a nonprofit, online aggregation of core research in the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences. BioOne provides a sustainable online platform for over 170 journals and books published by nonprofit societies, associations, museums, institutions, and presses. Your use of this PDF, the BioOne Web site, and all posted and associated content indicates your acceptance of BioOne’s Terms of Use, available at www.bioone.org/page/terms_of_use. Usage of BioOne content is strictly limited to personal, educational, and non-commercial use. Commercial inquiries or rights and permissions requests should be directed to the individual publisher as copyright holder. BioOne sees sustainable scholarly publishing as an inherently collaborative enterprise connecting authors, nonprofit publishers, academic institutions, research libraries, and research funders in the common goal of maximizing access to critical research. 94 Energy-related web sites phu, Bhutan. The online article Fraunhofer Institute for Solar argues the “resettlement and reha- Energy Systems. The following web sites were chosen bilitation of population affected by to illustrate some of the issues associ- water projects has been generally Alternative approaches ated with energy in mountain regions unsatisfactory the world over” and as well as certain types of energy pro- that “reforms in planning and man- Energia duction, with a primary focus on solar agement of programs to resettle www.energia.org/ energy and hydropower. Searching and rehabilitate the displaced popu- Web site of an international net- for hydropower sites on the web lation are essential to avoid conflict work on women and sustainable reveals how controversial the topic of and consequential high social energy that links individuals and hydropower is and how intensively it stress.” groups concerned with energy, the is being discussed. Several sites that environment, and women. Energia deal with alternative approaches to Homepage of the Snowy aims to strengthen the role of energy have also been included here, Mountains Hydroelectric Scheme women in sustainable energy devel- although they do not always focus www.snowyhydro.com.au/main.cfm opment through information specifically on mountain regions. Web site of the Snowy Mountains exchange, training, research, advo- Scheme, supported by the Snowy cacy, and action. This site contains Energy issues in mountains Mountains Hydroelectric Authority. two interesting articles: “‘Energiz- The Scheme lies mostly within ing’ Rural Areas of Peru,” which ICIMOD: Energy use Kosciuszko National Park in Aus- describes an alternative demand- in the Hindu Kush-Himalaya tralia’s Southern Alps. While most led way of introducing energy www.icimod.org.sg/focus/ of the Scheme’s engineering fea- applied in Peru and Bolivia that the energy/energy-toc.htm tures are located underground, the author calls ‘energization,’ and List of interesting documents con- construction and operation of such “The Success of Biogas Plants in cerning energy use in the Hindu a large-scale project in a unique Nepal: A Note on Gender,” which Kush-Himalaya, some with special Australian environment has signifi- describes a successful program for reference to hydropower aspects. cant potential environmental impli- disseminating biogas plants in cations. The Scheme provides 2360 Nepal and summarizes the findings ICIMOD: Mountain risks and hazards gigaliters of water west of the Great of various studies on the impact of www.icimod.org.sg/focus/risks_ Dividing Range for irrigation and biogas technology on the quality of hazards/inamflod.html river management and produces women’s lives. An online article by Kunda Dixit 5100 gigawatt hours of renewable and Inam Ahmed in which informa- electricity annually. The project FAO, SD Dimensions, tion is presented to support the attempts to reconcile power genera- Energy for Development argument that a paradigm shift is tion, environmental benefits, and www.fao.org/sd/EGdirect/ needed in making plans for long- recreational challenges. Egan0007.htm term flood mitigation, in the way we Online article “Stoves Used for think about floods, and in relation Solar energy Space Heating and Cooking in to what is and is not possible in this Mountainous Areas of Asia,” context. American Solar Energy Society extracted from an FAO/RWEDP www.solartoday.org/1999/ report on a workshop dealing with Nepal Ghatta Project nov-dec/feature2.html stoves used at different altitudes www.nathaneagle.com/ghatta “Peruvian Villages Go Solar,” by and by different ethnic groups. It Web site of a project aiming to mod- John Duffy, is an abstract from an discusses the various merits of stove ify traditional water mill (ghatta) article in Solar Today, programs. technology to transform ghattas into November–December 1999. Solar community battery charging sta- Today is the journal of the American Green-e: Renewable Electricity Program tions. Solar Energy Society. www.green-e.org/ Web site supported by the nonprofit Water projects in Nepal: Lessons Fraunhofer Institute for organization Center for Resource from displacement rehabilitation Solar Energy Systems Solutions, which has established the www.rim.edu.bt/manual/ www.ise.fhg.de/www-links/ Green-e Renewable Electricity Certi- icimod/sites/nepalnet/water/ Other_Solar.html fication Program to promote inter- water_projects.htm Contains a list of web sites on solar est and consumer confidence in the Web site provided by the Royal energy and other renewable purchase of renewable green power Institute of Management in Thim- sources of energy. Prepared by the from credible companies. Mountain Research and Development Vol 21 No 1 Feb 2001 MountainMedia 95 Hydropower Books As a transition to the section dedicated to particular applications World Commission on Dams of mountain meteorology, Part III www.dams.org/ Mountain Meteorology: deals with mountain winds. A dis- The site is devoted to the major tinction is made between terrain- landmark final report of the World Fundamentals and forced flows and mountain-and-val- Commission on Dams, which con- Applications. ley breezes. In the former case, tains a thorough discussion of the processes are highlighted that pros and cons of dams and dam By C. David Whiteman. Oxford Uni- determine the manner through construction. The entire report can versity Press, New York and Oxford, which large-scale flows interact with be downloaded at www.damsreport. 2000. xiii + 355 pp, hardback. topographic obstacles, that is, by org/. An overview of the report can UK£29.50; US$39.95. ISBN 0-19- flowing over or around mountains be found at www.damsreport.org/ 513271-8. or by being blocked as a result of docs/overview/wcd_overview.pdf. cold-air damming. The chapter This book explores a wide range of related to mountain winds address- International Centre issues relevant to climatology and es aspects such as the mechanisms for Hydropower (ICH) meteorology as applied to mountain responsible for up-slope and valley www.ntnu.no/ich/ regions. It would appear to be typi- winds, disturbances of local breezes The International Centre for cally aimed at an audience of through large-scale flows, and par- Hydropower (ICH) is an association advanced undergraduate students ticularities of diurnal winds in of companies and organizations and those doing graduate research. basins and over plateaus. Here active in all aspects of hydropower The book has a very pleasant for- again, the author relates many qual- generation and supply. Membership mat, the text is nicely laid out, and itative and theoretical concepts to is open to all parties involved in the the figures are, on the whole, concrete examples selected mostly development, implementation, and superb, making use of excellent, from the various mountain zones of operation of hydropower. didactic graphics and sketches. North America. The volume is divided into four The three chapters of Part IV International Commission major sections, the shortest of which build on the preceding chapters to on Large Dams (ICOLD) is devoted to an introduction to enter into substantial detail on genepi.louis-jean.com/ mountain climates, with a particular weather-related problem areas spe- cigb/index.html focus on the mountains of North cific to mountains. The latter two of Contains ICOLD’s view of the America. This introduces the reader these chapters have been con- report of the World Commission on to some of the themes that are dealt tributed by other authors. In Chap- Dams as well as other views. A relat- with in other chapters. The principal ter 12, the concepts of diurnal ed site, www.hydro2001.com/, con- factors governing mountain climates breezes or synoptically driven block- tains information about two confer- are clearly set out: latitude, altitude, ing episodes are applied to air qual- ences: The Fourth International the degree of continentality, and the ity problems in valleys or at the Conference Hydropower ’01, importance of regional circulation interface between plains and moun- Bergen, 20–22 June 2001, and the patterns in forging regional climates tain areas. Interesting examples of ICOLD European Symposium, in complex terrain. smog formation under particular
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