Journal - week16

         In the article 'Transnational struggles for water and power' and 'Dams, Democracy, and development in Transnational perspective' by Sanjeev has talked about the increasing numbers of the big dam building during the 1900s in the United Stated, the Great Britain and Soviet Union where the first major and powerful hydropower dam, the Desprostoi located. Because of the transnational big dam building contribute to big international regime such as ICOLD in order to share information about big dam building through out the world. But started from the mid 1960s to late 1900s, when the number of dam building went steady and less which they assumed because of four factors which are technical; no available area to build new dam, financial; inadequate funding, economic and political; decreasing financial viability of and changing economic benefit-cost regulation and anti group who against the building of dams. Anti dam building has become the main focus such as environmental movement, human rights and etc. Partly, I think it is because of the globalization with the efficient in technology in transportation and communication allow these group of people have a connection with each other easier meanwhile there are existence of transnational actors, coalitions, networks and nongovernmental organization help the linkage between different group of people or nations who has the same goal like environmental actors as i mentioned earlier. These created the main obstacle toward the dam building. As nowadays, many countries have came up with many projects to construct the energy sources not only dam but some other energy source like nuclear power plant without consideration of people lives. So these transnational actors, coalitions, networks and nongovernmental organization became a big role to help out with the human rights and environmental or even gender issues as well.