Hjort-af-Ornas Turning Hydropower Social

Where Global Sustainability Conventions Matter
1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-3-540-74454-2
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 145 Seiten

Reihe: Environmental Science and Engineering

As this book demonstrates, it is essential to involve stakeholders in assessments of hydropower development. The author targets policy formation after the UNCED and UNSSD conventions. By drawing on some dozen project cases, the author shows how policy changes have gradually influenced project design and implementation. Readers gain new insights into the reality behind hydropower policy changes as they have evolved over the last decade.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hjort-Af-Ornas, Anders

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Preface;5
2;Contents;7
3;Acronyms;10
4;List of Figures;12
5;Relating Hydropower Planning to Global Conventions;14
5.1;Shifts in Development Paradigm;14
5.2;Social Assessment and Sustainability Demands in Hydropower Projects;20
5.3;From Social Impact Assessments to Stakeholders’ Involvement;23
5.4;The Contours of Stakeholder Driven Implementation;25
5.5;The Significance of Social Information in Hydropower Development;27
5.6;Focusing on Poverty, Stakeholder Involvement and Data Formation Processes;28
6;Sustainable Development Issues in Hydropower Planning;31
6.1;1.1 Project Adaptation to Sustainable Development Requirements;31
6.2;1.2 The Impact of WCD on Hydropower Planning;33
6.3;1.3 Key Issues for Sustainable Development;37
6.4;1.4 Resettlement Risks and Poverty Reduction in Multipurpose Water- Sector Projects;39
6.5;1.4.1 Poverty Classifications During Hydropower Implementation;39
6.6;1.4.2 Post-Resettlement Screening in Vietnam Central Highlands;43
6.7;1.5 Hydropower in Regional Development;44
6.8;1.5.1 Conservation vs. Development in Namibia;45
6.9;1.5.2 Conflict Management and Stakeholder Involvement in Project Formulation in Vietnam4;46
6.10;1.6 Sustainability Indicators Applied on a Set of Hydropower Projects;48
6.11;1.7 The Hydropower Response to Sustainable Development;53
7;Social Catchments of Hydropower;55
7.1;2.1 On Data: GetWhat you Need Instead of Take What you Get;56
7.2;2.1.1 Systematised Information in Case of Data Scarcity: The Case of Site Options in Nicaragua;57
7.3;2.1.2 Replacing Data Scarcity with Indicators: The Case of Downstream Development in Costa Rica;61
7.4;2.2 On Involvement: Stakeholders Assessment of Data Formation Processes;66
7.5;2.2.1 Stakeholder Participation in Data Formation and Evaluation of Selected Parameters ( Angola and Namibia);67
7.6;2.2.2 Stakeholder Demands for Regional Beneficial Effects ( Vietnam);68
7.7;2.3 On Process: Stakeholders Directing Data Formation;73
7.8;2.3.1 Two Vietnamese Communes in Search for Potential Development Projects9;75
7.9;2.4 Social Catchment, an Issue for Stakeholder Involvement in Planning Process;85
8;Hydropower and Regional Development for Poverty Reduction;87
8.1;3.1 Rural Electricity in the Lives of the Poor;89
8.2;3.1.1 Energy Consumption Among the Poor in Lesotho;89
8.3;3.1.2 Rural Electrification Expectations Among Poor Consumers in Lesotho;92
8.4;3.2 Rural Electrification as Support to Private Enterprises;94
8.5;3.2.1 Long-term Effects of Electricity on Business: A Thirty Year Long Case from Kenya;95
8.6;3.2.2 Rural Electrification: SMEs Open New Niches for WomenÌs Initiatives: Maseru ( Lesotho);97
8.7;3.2.3 Rural Electrification and Regional Development Prospects ( Botswana, Ghana and Lesotho);99
8.8;3.3 An Integrated Approach to Hydropower Dam Consequences in Regional Development;101
8.9;3.3.1 Poverty Reduction and Potential Hydropower Effects in Vietnam;102
8.10;3.3.2 Hydropower Projects for Rural Development;104
8.11;3.4 Hydropower Between Risk Management and Poverty Reduction;105
9;Decentralisation and a Rights Approach in Hydropower Development;107
9.1;4.1 Stakeholding Model (1): Local Power Station Staff Interacting with Resettlees2;110
9.2;4.1.1 Monitoring Socio-Economy and Health;111
9.3;4.1.2 Screening Techniques to Avoid Surprising Futures;114
9.4;4.1.3 Facilitating the Process;118
9.5;4.2 Stakeholding Model (2): Regional Stakeholder Decision- making;119
9.6;4.2.1 StakeholdersÌ Recruitment in the NHP Study;119
9.7;4.2.2 StakeholdersÌ Experience, Influence Potential and Organizational Involvement;121
9.8;4.2.3 StakeholdersÌ Real Capacity and Power;126
9.9;4.3 Stakeholding. From Prescription to Human Rights;129
10;Hydropower Implementation Performance for Sustainable Development;131
10.1;5.1 Linkages Between New Information and Implementation;132
10.2;5.1.1 Building a Knowledge Base About Hydropower for Sustainable Development;133
10.3;5.1.2 Disinformation and Criticism as Political Language;134
10.4;5.2 Complications in Linking Implementation with Policy;136
10.5;5.3 A New Holistic Perspective in Technical Culture;139
10.6;5.3.1 Ambivalence in Understandings of Policy Intention Open for Interpretations;140
10.7;5.3.2 The Lack of Checks and Balances in Implementation;140
10.8;5.3.3 The Culture of Sustainable Hydropower Development;143
10.9;5.4 Hydropower and Environment Ideologies;145
10.10;5.4.1 Poverty Reduction Ò Budget Rhetoric or Solidarity?;146
10.11;5.4.2 The Free-floating Rivers Ò Whose Sustainability?;147
10.12;5.4.3 The Failing Consultant, the Case of Uncritical Criticism;149
10.13;5.4.4 Stakeholder Mobilization Ò A Political Force?;150
10.14;5.4.5 The Political Complications Ò Part of Hydropower Implementation?;151
10.15;5.5 The New Hydropower Project Culture;152
11;References;154