Is the hydropower boom actually taking place? A case study of a South East European country, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Dogmus, Özge Can; Nielsen, Jonas Østergaard

doi:10.1016/j.rser.2019.04.077

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“…Among these renewable energies, it can be seen that wind and solar energy are cited as the most commonly used [27,28], but hydropower is an important source of renewable energy as well, being the largest generator of electricity in the world. In addition to presenting an advanced technological development, hydropower presents many benefits [29,30].…”

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Challenges Presented in the Implementation of Sustainable Energy Management via ISO 50001:2011

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Considering the importance of ISO 50001 in sustainable development, the objective of this research is to identify the challenges found by organizations during the implementation of ISO 50001:2011, according to the literature. To address this objective, a systematic search was conducted. Scientific papers from the following international databases were used: Science Direct, Emerald Insight, Scopus, Springer, Wiley, and Taylor and Francis. Permutations of the terms “ISO 50001” and “Challenges”, “Barriers”, “Lacks”, “Gaps”, “Obstacles”, “Problems”, and “Limitations” were searched. Following this strategy, 206 documents were found. After removing book chapters, articles from proceedings, duplicate articles, and articles that did not mention any challenge related to ISO 50001, 17 articles were left. Eleven challenges were found in these articles. The most cited challenges were: “Lack of Resources-Limitations (HR, Technologies, Infrastructure, Financial, Time)”, “Difficulty to determine the energy baseline and energy performance indicators”, “Human Resources deficiencies (competences, knowledges, and abilities)”, and “Lack of management support and/or commitment”. The challenges most cited shows the need for better planning before implementation as well as a comprehensive analysis of the organization’s requirements and features. The findings of this research show that this theme is still underexplored. The results presented can contribute to future industrial policies to potentialize countries’ economies.

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Challenges Presented in the Implementation of Sustainable Energy Management via ISO 50001:2011

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“…The lack of hydropower development is due to bureaucracy, a lack of clear legal constraints, as well as poor social, political, and economic conditions for investments at the national level (e.g., corruption, plans not adjusted to the possibilities) [31,32]. To reduce these barriers, a thorough analysis of these types of challenges is needed [33]. Achieving the assumed target of the share of RES in final energy consumption may not be achieved given the changes in this parameter and the level from 2017 (18.8% with the target of 34% by 2020) [2,34].…”

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Challenges in the Development of Hydropower in Selected European Countries

Tomczyk

Wiatkowski

2020

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Hydropower in Europe is playing an increasingly important role as a renewable source of energy. Its share of the final energy consumption varies from country to country, posing different challenges in each. The European Union member states are obliged, according to energy policy, to increase the share of renewable energy. This article presents the challenges related to the development of hydropower in four countries with different shares of domestic electricity production from hydropower plants: Albania (100% share in 2019), Slovenia (25.7%), Poland (1.1%), and Estonia (0.3%). Particular attention is paid to the issues of rational management of water resources in connection to Europe’s energy policy. As a result of the case study analysis, the challenges in the development of hydropower are identified, as well as ways to solve them. In addition, a comprehensive analysis of the impact of social, economic, environmental and climate change factors on the development of hydropower was conducted. At present, whether the assumed goals of the European Union’s energy policy will be achieved is impossible to determine for the whole of Europe. Achieving these goals will be possible only after individual countries prepare comprehensive reports on the topics of renewable energy sources, including hydropower.

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“…Within Bosnia and Herzegovina, Elektroprivreda BiH, a joint-stock company (90% public and 10% private), is in charge of electricity generation and distribution (EPBiH 2019). In addition, public-private partnership projects are highly encouraged especially in the hydropower sector (IRENA 2017) and there are over 300 hydropower plants currently planned in Bosnia and Herzegovina (Dogmus and Nielsen 2019;Riverwatch and EuroNatur 2018). Two of these are in the study village Martin Brod, one on the Una River (a small hydropower plant, 1.3 MW) and another is on the Unac River (a large hydropower plant, 72 MW).…”

Section: Sustainable Development In Bosnia and Herzegovinamentioning

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Defining sustainability? Insights from a small village in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Dogmus

Nielsen

2020

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The term ''sustainability'' is flexible as it needs to function in many different contexts and across many issues. At the same time, this flexibility makes it difficult to assess and easy to misuse. Over the last three decades, numerous sustainability assessment tools have been developed to better define the term. In this paper, we critically address these attempts and argue that the flexibility of the term is not solely problematic, but allow people to create their own sustainability imaginaries, by which we mean a society's understanding of how environmental resources should be used. We show this through a case study, the Martin Brod village in Bosnia and Herzegovina, where, within a few years, the inhabitants changed their sustainability imaginaries in parallel with shifting external socio-economic conditions and expectations. We primarily applied qualitative research methods. Our results show that changing sustainability imaginaries was made possible due to the flexibility of the term which enabled otherwise disempowered local inhabitants to have agency. Consequently, a stricter definition of sustainability may have unintended consequences for people struggling to maintain a political voice in settings such as Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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Is the hydropower boom actually taking place? A case study of a South East European country, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Cited by 24 publications

References 37 publications

Challenges Presented in the Implementation of Sustainable Energy Management via ISO 50001:2011

Challenges Presented in the Implementation of Sustainable Energy Management via ISO 50001:2011

Challenges in the Development of Hydropower in Selected European Countries

Defining sustainability? Insights from a small village in Bosnia and Herzegovina

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