The Three Gorges dam, under construction on the Yangzijiang, will be the world's biggest dam ever. The gargantuan scale and growing western media coverage of the project give an idea of its environmental and human implications. This paper first outlines the main characteristics and consequences of the dam project. It then presents the research work of the GIS team from the Institut de Geographie
... [Show full abstract] Alpine (IGA) in Grenoble, whose main aim is to analyse the resettlement of over one million people and to model its demographic and social impacts.