The Hydropolitics of Dams: Engineering or Ecosystems?

About Mark Everard

Dr Mark Everard's work in all four sectors of society - private public academic and voluntary - has taken him across five continents to undertake applied research policy development and capacity-building relating to the ways in which people connect with ecosystems. The author of twelve other books including Common Ground (Zed Books 2011) over sixty peer-reviewed scientific papers and over two hundred technical magazine articles Mark is also a communicator on sustainability and wider aquatic matters on TV and radio. He has served on numerous government advisory and expert groups in the UK as well as advising other governments and multinational corporations on sustainability matters. His specialty is on the water environment land uses across the catchments that influence it the pressures that people impose upon it and the many often unrecognised benefits that they derive from it. Mark's work includes environmental ethics and economics as a means to bring our intimate interdependencies with ecosystems into the mainstream of public awareness and government thinking.