Hjort-af-Ornas Turning Hydropower Social

Where Global Sustainability Conventions Matter
1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-3-540-74454-2
Verlag: Springer-Verlag
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 145 Seiten

This book concerns footprints of the international environmental conventions in action. Hydropower projects have been selected as test case. The study is based on participatory research into a number of cases where implementation needs to meet new data requirements made by policy makers. It is not about ?ndings on - dropower in studies, whether consultancies or other kind. Results in the various - ports are accordinglynot presented here other than to sometimes illustrate how they re?ect on sustainable development. The locations of projects are not even given by maps since the purpose is to see how response to changes in environmental policy may give rise to changes in methodologies. The main issue is abstract in this sense, withfocusonhowsustainabledevelopmentmaybeimplemented,usinghydropower as an example. The global environmental conventions are seen in this study as drivers and the activities re?ected on are just that; re?ections that seek to respond and lift policy into implementation style. The purpose when making references to a speci?c set of studies is not to look for their results but for design; how experience is brought into policy formulation to supervise the evaluator in turn to respond with new types of information for project implementation. The study is requested by Sida, the Swedish International Development Agency.

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