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Contesting hydropower in the Brazilian Amazon
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ISBN: 0429319282 1000220443 Year: 2021 Publisher: London ; New York, New York : Routledge,

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"This book focuses on how local, national and international civil society groups opposed the Belo Monte and São Luiz do Tapajós hydroelectric projects in the Brazilian Amazon. In doing so, it explores how contemporary opposition to hydropower projects demonstrate a form of 'contested sustainability' that highlights the need for sustainable development agendas to take more into account than merely greenhouse gas emissions. The assertion that society must look to successfully transition away from fossil fuels and towards sustainable energy sources often appears assured in contemporary environmental governance. However, what is less certain is who decides which forms of energy are deemed 'sustainable'. Contesting Hydropower in the Brazilian Amazon explores one process in which the sustainability of a 'green' energy source is contested. It focuses on how civil society actors have both challenged and reconfigured dominant pro-dam assertions that present the hydropower schemes explored as renewable energy projects that contribute to sustainable development agendas. The volume also examines in detail how anti-dam actors act to render visible the political interests behind a project, whilst at the same time linking the resistance movement to wider questions of contemporary environmental politics. This interdisciplinary work will be of great interest to students and scholars of Sustainable Development, Environmental Justice, Environmental Governance and Development Studies"--


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Die Aushandlung von Enteignung : Der Kampf um Anerkennung und Öffentlichkeit im Rahmen des Staudammbaus Belo Monte, Brasilien
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ISBN: 9783515122245 Year: 2019 Publisher: Stuttgart Franz Steiner Verlag


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Flooded
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ISBN: 1978826141 1978826168 9781978826144 9781978826137 1978826133 9781978826120 1978826125 9781978826168 Year: 2022 Publisher: New Brunswick

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"Contemporary dam construction is markedly different from what it was in the middle of the twentieth century, when governments ignored the negative impacts of large-scale infrastructure projects. In recent decades, many democratic countries have continued to use dams to promote growth, but have also introduced accompanying programs to alleviate the harmful consequences of dams for local people, reduce poverty, and promote participatory governance. This type of dam building undoubtedly represents a step forward in responsible governing. But have these policies really worked? Flooded provides insights into the little-known effects of these approaches through a close examination of Brazil's Belo Monte hydroelectric facility. After a remarkable three decades of controversy over damming the Xingu River, a tributary of the Amazon, the dam came to fruition under the left-of-center Workers' Party and became the world's fourth largest dam when it was completed in 2019. Billions of dollars for social welfare programs accompanied construction. Nonetheless, the dam brought extensive social, political, and environmental upheaval to the region. The population soared, cost of living skyrocketed, violence spiked, pollution increased, and already overextended education and healthcare systems were strained. Nearly 40,000 people were displaced and ecosystems were significantly disrupted. Klein tells the stories of dam-affected communities, including activists, social movements, non-governmental organizations, and public defenders and public prosecutors. He details how these groups, as well as government officials and representatives from private companies, negotiated the upheaval through protests, participating in public forums for deliberation, using legal mechanisms to push for protections for the most vulnerable, and engaging in myriad other civic spaces. This ground-level perspective shows how local democracy is at once strengthened and weakened by a rapid influx of government resources. The introduction of funding and opportunities divided dam resistance and split previously unified social and political networks, yet it also allowed for deliberative processes to emerge. More people participated in civic life and some dam-affected communities achieved victories in their struggles for compensation. Yet the local democracy that state and civil society actors produced was insufficient and costly for many participants, and still others were simply excluded. Even when marginalized groups managed to make gains, they did so despite, rather than because of, the conditions. A twisted form of democratic deepening emerged - but the only kind that was possible for local people and their advocates to create. Flooded provides a rich ethnographic account of democracy and development in the making. In the midst of today's climate crisis, this book showcases the challenges and opportunities of meeting increasing demands for energy in equitable ways"-- Provided by publisher


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Water Governance: Retheorizing Politics
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ISBN: 3039215612 3039215604 Year: 2019 Publisher: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

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This republished Special Issue highlights recent and emergent concepts and approaches to water governance that re-centers the political in relation to water-related decision making, use, and management. To do so at once is to focus on diverse ontologies, meanings and values of water, and related contestations regarding its use, or its importance for livelihoods, identity, or place-making. Building on insights from science and technology studies, feminist, and postcolonial approaches, we engage broadly with the ways that water-related decision making is often depoliticized and evacuated of political content or meaning—and to what effect. Key themes that emerged from the contributions include the politics of water infrastructure and insecurity; participatory politics and multi-scalar governance dynamics; politics related to emergent technologies of water (bottled or packaged water, and water desalination); and Indigenous water governance.

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orientation knowledge --- WEF Nexus --- Latin America --- water politics --- water rights --- political ecology --- Chile --- national interest --- Africa --- depoliticization --- social control --- Central Asia --- Belo Monte --- nibi (water) --- Canada --- planning --- Indigenous water governance --- scale politics --- UNDRIP --- spatio-temporal --- women --- participation --- participatory development --- FPIC --- remunicipalization --- governmentalities --- integrated water resource management (IWRM) --- colonization --- drinking water --- power --- free --- community-based research --- environmental flows --- Two-Eyed Seeing --- Indigenous water --- water security --- water management --- water colonialism --- hydropower --- groundwater --- packaged drinking water (PDW) --- repoliticization --- Jakarta --- Indigenous knowledge --- Tajikistan --- governance --- settler colonialism --- decision-making processes --- informality --- first nations --- Water Users’ Associations --- irrigation --- OECD --- giikendaaswin --- Brazil --- UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples --- Lesotho --- environmental justice --- hydrosocial --- Colombia --- law --- Cochabamba --- kitchen gardens --- desalination --- mining --- water --- environmental assessment --- First Nations --- water quality --- Anishinabek --- urban India --- urban water infrastructure --- re-theorizing --- politics --- bottled water --- Egypt --- urban water --- Bolivia --- dams --- Yukon --- decentralization --- narrative ethics --- water justice --- water insecurity --- political ontology --- religious difference --- energy policy --- international development --- water ethics --- Cairo --- infrastructure --- legal geography --- practices of mediation --- water governance --- risk --- Indonesia --- prior and informed consent --- PES

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