The Political Economy of Hydropower in the Communist Space: Iron Gates Revisited

Creţan, Remus; Vesalon, Lucian

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“…They found that Beijing and Shanghai had the highest level of energy efficiency due to investments, and other parts of China had low energy efficiency by investments. The long-term impact of energy efficiency and sustainability on the population has been revealed by investigating the most significant projects in hydropower energy [48,49].…”

Section: Energy Efficiency Sustainable Economic and Financial Develomentioning

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Link between Energy Efficiency and Sustainable Economic and Financial Development in OECD Countries

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The growing risk of climate change caused by the emission of greenhouse gases poses new challenges to contemporary countries. The development of economies is usually related to increasing levels of greenhouse gas emissions. Therefore, the question arises whether it is possible to achieve sustainable economic and financial development and simultaneously reduce greenhouse gas emissions. This paper assumes it is possible if energy efficiency is increased. The aim of the paper is to show the link between energy efficiency and sustainable economic and financial development in Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries for the period 2000–2018 by using data envelopment analysis (DEA) and regression analysis. The results show a slight upward trend of total factor energy efficiency (TFEE) in OECD countries for the analysed period; however, there is a difference in TFEE levels. Developed OECD countries have higher TFEE levels than developing OECD countries. The links between total factor energy efficiency and sustainable economic and financial development reveal different impacts depending on the variables taken into consideration.

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Section: Energy Efficiency Sustainable Economic and Financial Develomentioning

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Link between Energy Efficiency and Sustainable Economic and Financial Development in OECD Countries

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“…The Danube is not only a river that collects the whole inland drainage network of Romania, but also Europe's main navigable waterway, connecting Central Europe to the Black Sea basin, while the Danube-Main-Rhine and the Danube-Black Sea canal system constitute a true transcontinental navigable axis that links Constanţa harbour to the North Sea (Rotterdam). Its particular importance for Romania derives also from the fact that its territory is crossed by the Lower Danube sector (1,075 km, 38% of its total length), basically the most important section in terms of flow and navigation (Creţan, Vesalon, 2017& Văran, Creţan, 2018. Thus, as early as the Middle Ages, the Moldavian and the Wallachian rulers, succeeded in attracting the interest of King Napoleon the Third and of Queen Victoria, who used to call them "Danubian Princes", who supported the unification of all the territories inhabited by Romanians, into a powerful state at the mouths of the Danube, successfully capable of coping with the Russian expansion to the Bosphorus and the Dardaneles (Cazacu, 1999).…”

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Fluctuating geographical position within a geopolitical and historical context: Case study: Romania

Radu¹

2020

Geographica Pannonica

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The geographical position of a territory is a statically element strictly determined by mathematical landmarks and by those of the natural background. For all that, different historical and geopolitical events that happened in the course of time, can make the geographical position fluctuate by including a territory / state into territorial aggregates established on less arbitrary criteria. Thus, many interwar authors placed Romania, by geographical criteria, in Central Europe; after 1945 they would include it in Eastern Europe, or in short, in the East, a political-ideological homogeneous territory, but heterogeneous geographically, historically and cultural. With the downfall of political-ideological barriers and the deep-going mutations in the geopolitics of Central and Eastern Europe, Romania's geographical position should be reconsidered based on objective criteria: geographical, mathematical and last but not least, cultural and economic. This study is also important because some recent works place Romania erroneously in South-Eastern Europe, either in Eastern or in Balkan Europe. The work concludes that Romania in a state situated in the south-eastern part of Central Europe. The arguments brought in favour of it have in view to push forward the current stage of knowledge on Romania's geopolitics.

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“…A renewable energy transition in rural areas of low-income countries, where the affordability of electricity provides limited energy availability to its population, could offer an opportunity to mitigate poverty. Nevertheless, in many cases around the world, large energy projects are carried out without paying attention to the potential adverse impacts on poor people [14][15][16]. The provision of clean energy, as Burke [17] suggests, may also provide an improvement not only to basic services, but in job opportunities, additional sources of income, value added to renewable energy sources, and reductions in climate change impacts, among others.…”

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Challenges for Energy Transition in Poverty-Ridden Regions—The Case of Rural Mixteca, Mexico

2021

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This paper presents distinct scenario pathways and their storylines resulting from an analysis of interdependencies. We identified the main drivers of a proposed renewable energy transition in rural Mixteca-Puebla, Mexico. By analyzing the main factors involved in alleviating impoverished communities in the rural region, we show the varying degrees to which these drivers influence, support, or hinder a promising energy transition. A Cross-Impact Balance Analysis was conducted to explore the multiple inter-relationships among a set of conditions. This methodology allowed us to evaluate the relationships between social, political, cultural, and environmental variables. The main drivers were identified as clusters of several elements, in which the uncertainties in governance and the legal system trigger the inter-relationship of forces in the area. The focus of this paper is to show how the societal aspects affect the structural energy transformation and its capacity for adaptation in future trends envisioned for the area. This research contributes to the use of technological transformation as a means to alleviate poverty in a rural area. These outcomes give insights regarding the conditions to be considered, in respect to possible–encouraging, but also pessimistic pathways for the region in coming decades.

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The Political Economy of Hydropower in the Communist Space: Iron Gates Revisited

Cited by 38 publications

References 20 publications

Link between Energy Efficiency and Sustainable Economic and Financial Development in OECD Countries

Link between Energy Efficiency and Sustainable Economic and Financial Development in OECD Countries

Fluctuating geographical position within a geopolitical and historical context: Case study: Romania

Challenges for Energy Transition in Poverty-Ridden Regions—The Case of Rural Mixteca, Mexico

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