Climate change and the hydropower sector: A global review

A Wasti, P Ray, S Wi, C Folch… - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Renewable sources of electricity, such as solar and wind, need to be paired with sources of
reliable baseload. Hydropower is a renewable, low‐emission source of electricity baseload …

Riverhood: Political ecologies of socionature commoning and translocal struggles for water justice

R Boelens, A Escobar, K Bakker… - The Journal of …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Mega-damming, pollution and depletion endanger rivers worldwide. Meanwhile, modernist
imaginaries of ordering 'unruly waters and humans' have become cornerstones of hydraulic …

Climate change and agrarian struggles: an invitation to contribute to a JPS Forum

SM Borras Jr, I Scoones, A Baviskar… - The Journal of …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
This essay introduces and invites contributions to a new Journal of Peasant Studies Forum
on 'climate change and critical agrarian studies'. Climate change is inextricably entwined …

Geographies of big water infrastructure: Contemporary insights and future research opportunities

T Birkenholtz - Geography Compass, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Largescale “big” water infrastructure is once again at the forefront of the global
developmentalist agenda and is receiving attendant scholarly attention. Given this parallel …

[HTML][HTML] Conflicted transitions: Exploring the actors, tactics, and outcomes of social opposition against energy infrastructure

BK Sovacool, DJ Hess, R Cantoni, D Lee… - Global Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
Given the growing frequency, severity, and salience of social mobilization and community
action on energy and climate issues, in this study we systematically explore the …

[PDF][PDF] Ontological politics in river defence debates: Unpacking fields of contention in eco-centric and non-human turns

R Boelens, L Hommes, J Hoogesteger - Water Alternatives, 2024 - water-alternatives.org
In response to capitalist territorial transformations, humans' predatory subjection of nature,
and worldwide socio-environmental injustices, a diverse set of eco-centric, other-than …

Politicizing hydroelectric power plants in Portugal: Spatio-temporal injustices and psychosocial impacts of renewable energy colonialism in the Global North

S Batel, S Küpers - Globalizations, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The extent to which infrastructures being deployed for a postcarbon transition can be
considered sustainable has been increasingly scrutinized within the critical turn in energy …

Impacts of hydropower development on locals' livelihoods in the Global South

L Castro-Diaz, MA García, S Villamayor-Tomas… - World …, 2023 - Elsevier
The construction of hydroelectric dams in the Global South and emerging economies is
controversial; on one hand, advocates highlight the positive impacts at national and global …

Damn those damn dams: Fluvial longitudinal connectivity impairment for European diadromous fish throughout the 20th century

G Duarte, P Segurado, G Haidvogl, D Pont… - Science of the Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
River longitudinal connectivity is crucial for diadromous fish species to reproduce and grow,
its fragmentation by large dams may prevent these species to complete their life cycle. This …

[PDF][PDF] Modern and nonmodern waters: Sociotechnical controversies, successful anti-dam movements and water ontologies

S Flaminio - Water Alternatives, 2021 - water-alternatives.org
Many new dam projects are presently being put forward, revealing both the comeback of
large hydraulic infrastructure and the resilience of the modern ontology of water. To …