Changing how we build hydropower infrastructure for the common good: lessons from the Brazilian Amazon

Moran, Emilio Federico

DSpace Principal
→
Colección de los Centros Asociados
→
Brasil
→
Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências Sociais - PPGCS/PUCRS - Cosecha
→
Ver ítem

dc.creator	Moran, Emilio Federico
dc.date	2020
dc.date.accessioned	2023-03-28T19:08:38Z
dc.date.available	2023-03-28T19:08:38Z
dc.identifier	1519-6089
dc.identifier	https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=74265211002
dc.identifier.uri	https://biblioteca-repositorio.clacso.edu.ar/handle/CLACSO/241847
dc.description	"Infrastructure projects like roads and hydroelectric dams are meant to help achieve national economic development goals in Brazil and the Amazon. In the case of hydropower dams, they have a very specific goal: that of producing energy from water sources. Unfortunately, that objective is frequently associated with environmental and social damages that result from the construction of dams. In the Amazon these damages are more serious in terms of the impacts on biological and cultural diversity. The research for this paper is based on 5 years of study by an interdisciplinary team using survey and ethnographic methods, both qualitative and quantitative. This history is repeated frequently, and it becomes necessary to ask what types of changes would be necessary to hydropower projects to begin to have social and environmental positive results. This paper explores the causes of the problems posed by dams and suggests solutions in the process of approval, construction and operation of hydropower dams that could lead to better outcomes for the common good of society."
dc.format	application/pdf
dc.language	en
dc.publisher	Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul
dc.relation	http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=742
dc.rights	Civitas - Revista de Ciências Sociais
dc.source	Civitas - Revista de Ciências Sociais (Brasil) Num.1 Vol.20
dc.subject	Sociología
dc.subject	Dams
dc.subject	Hydropower
dc.subject	Resettlement
dc.subject	Deforestation
dc.subject	Social impacts assessment
dc.title	Changing how we build hydropower infrastructure for the common good: lessons from the Brazilian Amazon
dc.type	artículo científico