A critical review on environmental impacts of renewable energy systems and mitigation strategies: Wind, hydro, biomass and geothermal

ET Sayed, T Wilberforce, K Elsaid, MKH Rabaia… - Science of the total …, 2021 - Elsevier
The annual growth of global energy demand and the associated environmental impacts
(EIs) has an important role in the large sustainable and green global energy transition …

Towards a classification of vulnerability of small-scale fisheries

MM Islam, R Chuenpagdee - Environmental Science & Policy, 2022 - Elsevier
Vulnerability of small-scale fisheries (SSF) results from complex interactions amongst
various threats and stressors, including biophysical risks, environmental variability, unstable …

The downstream impacts of hydropower dams and indigenous and local knowledge: Examples from the Peace–Athabasca, Mekong, and Amazon

IG Baird, RAM Silvano, B Parlee, M Poesch… - Environmental …, 2021 - Springer
There has been much written about the negative social and environmental impacts of large
hydropower dams, particularly the impacts on people and the environment caused by …

[HTML][HTML] Hydropeaking operations of two run-of-river mega-dams alter downstream hydrology of the largest Amazon tributary

RM Almeida, SK Hamilton, EJ Rosi, N Barros… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Large storage dams have widely documented impacts on downstream aquatic
environments, but hydroelectric dams with little or no capacity for storage of water inflows (ie …

Functional responses of fisheries to hydropower dams in the Amazonian Floodplain of the Madeira River

CC Arantes, J Laufer, MDS Pinto… - Journal of Applied …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Tropical river fisheries support food security for millions of people but are increasingly
threatened by hydropower development. How dams affect these fisheries remains poorly …

[HTML][HTML] Spatial injustice to energy access in the shadow of hydropower in Brazil

MA García, A Mayer, IC Johansen, MC Lopez… - World Development, 2024 - Elsevier
Hydroelectric dams generate adverse social and ecological consequences for communities
in their vicinity, particularly those situated in rural areas, far from urban centers, and lacking …

[HTML][HTML] Detecting unknown dams from high-resolution remote sensing images: A deep learning and spatial analysis approach

M Jing, L Cheng, C Ji, J Mao, N Li, ZX Duan… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
The quality and integrity of available dam data are critical for broad efforts to produce fine-
scale assessments of their basin cycle, water quality, and other environmental and …

The Amazon in motion: Changing politics, development strategies, peoples, landscapes, and livelihoods

S Hecht, M Schmink, R Abers… - … Report 2021, Part …, 2021 - research-collection.ethz.ch
This chapter reviews the often-invisible, powerful processes that drive social and ecological
change in the Amazon, and the diverse peoples who inhabit its landscapes. It explores the …

[HTML][HTML] The legacy of large dams in the United States

G Di Baldassarre, M Mazzoleni, M Rusca - Ambio, 2021 - Springer
The sustainability of large dams has been questioned on several grounds. One aspect that
has been less explored is that the development of dams and reservoirs often enables …

Forest loss is significantly higher near clustered small dams than single large dams per megawatt of hydroelectricity installed in the Brazilian Amazon

S Nickerson, G Chen, PM Fearnside… - Environmental …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract Hydropower in the Brazilian Amazon is a prevalent form of development, but dams
have widespread and long-term environmental impacts that include deforestation in the …