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Turning Hydropower Social

Where Global Sustainability Conventions Matter

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  • © 2008

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Authors:
  1. Anders Hjort-af-Ornas

    1. Linköoping University, SE-581 83 Linköoping, Sweden

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  • Addresses the specific case of hydropower develompment to study gaps between policy formation and implementation

Part of the book series: Environmental Science and Engineering (ESE)

Part of the book sub series: Environmental Science (ENVSCIENCE)

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-18
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  2. Sustainable Development Issues in Hydropower Planning

    • Anders Hjort-af-Ornas
    Pages 19-42

  3. Social Catchments of Hydropower

    • Anders Hjort-af-Ornas
    Pages 43-74

  4. Hydropower and Regional Development for Poverty Reduction

    • Anders Hjort-af-Ornas
    Pages 75-94

  5. Decentralisation and a Rights Approach in Hydropower Development

    • Anders Hjort-af-Ornas
    Pages 95-118

  6. Hydropower Implementation Performance for Sustainable Development

    • Anders Hjort-af-Ornas
    Pages 119-141

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 143-145
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About this book

This book concerns footprints of the international environmental conventions in action. Hydropower projects have been selected as test case. The study is based on participatory research into a number of cases where implementation needs to meet new data requirements made by policy makers. It is not about ?ndings on - dropower in studies, whether consultancies or other kind. Results in the various - ports are accordinglynot presented here other than to sometimes illustrate how they re?ect on sustainable development. The locations of projects are not even given by maps since the purpose is to see how response to changes in environmental policy may give rise to changes in methodologies. The main issue is abstract in this sense, withfocusonhowsustainabledevelopmentmaybeimplemented,usinghydropower as an example. The global environmental conventions are seen in this study as drivers and the activities re?ected on are just that; re?ections that seek to respond and lift policy into implementation style. The purpose when making references to a speci?c set of studies is not to look for their results but for design; how experience is brought into policy formulation to supervise the evaluator in turn to respond with new types of information for project implementation. The study is requested by Sida, the Swedish International Development Agency.

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  • Linköoping University, SE-581 83 Linköoping, Sweden

    Anders Hjort-af-Ornas

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