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Powershed Politics: Yunnan Hydropower under Great Western Development
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In this article, the authors use hydropower development on the Lancang (upper Mekong River) and Nu (upper Salween River) as a lens for exploring institutional change and decision-making processes among governmental units and power companies under the Great Western Development campaign.Abstract:
This article uses hydropower development on the Lancang (upper Mekong River) and Nu (upper Salween River) as a lens for exploring institutional change and decision-making processes among governmental units and hydropower companies under the Great Western Development campaign. Scholars of the campaign tend to focus on central government policies and individual provinces' responses, and on the campaign's role as a central-state-strengthening project aimed at curbing regionalist tendencies. Large-scale hydropower development in Yunnan, however, is a complex affair involving national and provincial power companies, regional grids and governmental units at many levels. Conceptualizing Yunnan as the “powershed” of Guangdong, I argue that the Western Development campaign paves the way for increasingly strong interprovincial linkages between Guangdong and Yunnan that are not necessarily central-state-strengthening, and that consideration of such linkages should be fundamental to any attempt to understand the impacts of China's western development.read more
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Social impacts of large dam projects: A comparison of international case studies and implications for best practice
TL;DR: This paper draws upon data from two recent SIA projects: the Lesotho Highlands Water Project in Southern Africa, and the Manwan Dam, located on the upper Mekong River in southwestern China to examine the social impacts of large dam projects through time and across various geographical scales.
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Assessing the influence of Environmental Impact Assessments on science and policy: an analysis of the Three Gorges Project.
TL;DR: An analysis of the EIA process for the Three Gorges Project in China is presented, with recommendations about those institutional changes needed to improve the feedback between the science and policy, and ultimately the environmental sustainability, of large dams.
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Carbon inequality at the sub-national scale: A case study of provincial-level inequality in CO2 emissions in China 1997-2007
Afton Clarke-Sather,Afton Clarke-Sather,Jiansheng Qu,Jiansheng Qu,Qin Wang,Jingjing Zeng,Yan Li +6 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined inter-provincial inequality in CO2 emissions within China using common measures of inequality (coefficient of variation, Gini Index, Theil Index) to analyze provincial-level data derived from the IPCC reference approach for the years 1997-2007.
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Cumulative biophysical impact of small and large hydropower development in Nu River, China
Kelly M. Kibler,Desiree Tullos +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate cumulative biophysical effects of small and large hydropower dams in China's Nu River basin, and compare effects normalized per megawatt of power produced.
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Exporting dams: China's hydropower industry goes global.
TL;DR: Chinese dam builders have yet to adopt internationally accepted social and environmental standards for large infrastructure development that can assure these costs are adequately taken into account, but the Chinese government is becoming increasingly aware of the challenge and the necessity of promoting environmentally and socially sound investments overseas.
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The Campaign to “Open Up the West”: National, Provincial-level and Local Perspectives
TL;DR: The campaign to Open Up the West as mentioned in this paper has been presented as a major state project of nation-building directed at the interior provincial-level jurisdictions in order to encourage endogenous economic growth, to reduce socio-economic inequalities, and to ensure social and political stability in non-Han areas of the PRC.
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