Socioeconomic Vulnerability in China's Hydropower Development

Brown, Philip H.; Magee, Darrin; Xu, Yilin

doi:10.2139/ssrn.1135668

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“…The project called for the construction of 13 dams, mostly along the 384-mile-long stretch of the river in Nu Prefecture of Yunnan Province. These dams would have a 21,320 MW power-generation capacity, 20 per cent greater than that of the Three Gorges Dam, at substantially lower cost (Brown et al 2008). While the Nu River project would require Policy Advocacy Coalitions as Causes of Policy Change in China 315 resettlement of about 50,000 people, a full 10 per cent of Nu Prefecture's population, this figure is less than 5 percent of the number of people resettled by the Three Gorges Dam project.…”

Section: Overview Of the Nu River Hydropower Projectmentioning

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Policy Advocacy Coalitions as Causes of Policy Change in China? Analyzing Evidence from Contemporary Environmental Politics

Han

Swedlow

Unger

2014

Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice

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This article employs the advocacy coalition framework (ACF), a set of concepts developed to account for policymaking primarily in the United States, to analyze factors that led China to downsize its latest big hydropower project, on the Nu River. The ACF helps us identify two conflicting coalitions based on their policy beliefs and the resources they mobilized to translate their beliefs into policy change, which the ACF also helps us explain. Conflict between state agencies contributed to the rise of a societally based environmental coalition to oppose a state-centered development coalition, and struggle and strategic learning between these coalitions led to interventions by the premier and a scaling down of the project from 13 dams to four.

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Section: Overview Of the Nu River Hydropower Projectmentioning

confidence: 99%

Policy Advocacy Coalitions as Causes of Policy Change in China? Analyzing Evidence from Contemporary Environmental Politics

Han

Swedlow

Unger

2014

Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice

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“…In this transfer, the government usually finds a new relocation place for the refugees and needs to transparently assess the refugee's estate. And in China, such transfer usually leads to uncertainties and mistrusts between the refugees and between the refugees and government (Brown et al 2008). Second, the built hydropower base would risk the plateau's species as well.…”

Section: Hydropower Projectsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Qinghai–Tibet Railway: A landmark project and its subsequent environmental challenges

Qin

Bo²

2010

Environ Dev Sustain

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The first part of this paper reviews the environment-friendly techniques implemented when the Qinghai-Tibet Railway was built. They include (1) state-of-the-art techniques to protect the permafrost in the subgrade of the railway embankment; (2) measures to avoid disturbing the species in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau; (3) efforts to minimize the disturbance of the grassland and wetland; and (4) regulation to ensure the environmental disposal of the construction waste. The second part presents the subsequent environmental challenges which, after the operation of the railway, potentially risk the fragile ecological and environmental system in the plateau. The challenges come from the skyrocketing tourists, expansive natural resource exploitation, the long-term efficiency of permafrost-protected measure, and climatic warming.

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Socioeconomic Vulnerability in China's Hydropower Development

Cited by 2 publications

References 39 publications

Policy Advocacy Coalitions as Causes of Policy Change in China? Analyzing Evidence from Contemporary Environmental Politics

Policy Advocacy Coalitions as Causes of Policy Change in China? Analyzing Evidence from Contemporary Environmental Politics

The Qinghai–Tibet Railway: A landmark project and its subsequent environmental challenges

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