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Environmental justice and Chinese dam-building in the global South

Siciliano, Giuseppina; Del Bene, Daniela; Scheidel, Arnim; Liu, Juan; Urban, Frauke

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Authors

Daniela Del Bene

Arnim Scheidel

Juan Liu

Frauke Urban



Abstract

Chinese investments in large hydropower dams have rapidly increased all over the world in the last 20 years. Some of these projects have been contested both from a technological and political point of view due to the ways in which decisions have been made, as well as in relation to the resulting social-ecological change and ecological distributional aspects. From an Environmental Justice perspective, this paper analyses the main drivers and contested aspects of Chinese hydropower investments in the global South. The paper builds on Chinese projects located in different regions of the world, by combining information from the literature and the Global Atlas of Environmental Justice – EJAtlas dataset. Based on the analysis of Chinese hydropower projects and environmental justice concerns, this paper sheds light on the current literature on drivers and multidimensional conflictive outcomes of these large hydropower dam investments.

Citation

Siciliano, G., Del Bene, D., Scheidel, A., Liu, J., & Urban, F. (2019). Environmental justice and Chinese dam-building in the global South. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 37, 20-27. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2019.04.003

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Apr 1, 2019
Online Publication Date May 10, 2019
Publication Date Apr 1, 2019
Deposit Date Apr 29, 2020
Publicly Available Date Apr 29, 2020
Journal Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
Print ISSN 1877-3435
Electronic ISSN 1877-3443
Publisher Elsevier
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 37
Pages 20-27
DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2019.04.003

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