Strategic planning of hydropower development: balancing benefits and socioenvironmental costs

被引:28
作者
Almeida, Rafael M. [1 ,2 ]
Schmitt, Rafael J. P. [3 ]
Castelletti, Andrea [4 ]
Flecker, Alexander S. [5 ]
Harou, Julien J. [6 ,11 ]
Heilpern, Sebastian A. [1 ]
Kittner, Noah [7 ]
Kondolf, G. Mathias [8 ]
Opperman, Jeff J. [9 ]
Shi, Qinru [10 ]
Gomes, Carla P. [10 ,12 ]
McIntyre, Peter B. [1 ]
机构
[1] Cornell Univ, Dept Nat Resources & Environm, Ithaca, NY USA
[2] Univ Texas Rio Grande Valley, Sch Earth Environm & Marine Sci, Edinburg, TX USA
[3] Stanford Univ, Dept Biol & Woods Inst Environm, Nat Capital Project, Stanford, CA USA
[4] Politecn Milan, Dept Elect Informat & Bioengn, Milan, Italy
[5] Cornell Univ, Dept Ecol & Evolutionary Biol, Ithaca, NY USA
[6] Univ Manchester, Dept Mech Aerosp &Civil Engn, Manchester, Lancs, England
[7] Univ N Carolina, Dept Environm Sci & Engn, Chapel Hill, NC USA
[8] Univ Calif Berkeley, Dept Landscape Architecture & Environm Planning, Berkeley, CA USA
[9] World Wildlife Fund, Washington, DC USA
[10] Cornell Univ, Inst Computat Sustainabil, Ithaca, NY USA
[11] UCL, Dept Civil Environm & Geomatic Engn, London, England
[12] Cornell Univ, Dept Comp Sci, Ithaca, NY USA
关键词
BASIN-SCALE; LARGE DAMS; IMPACTS; RIVER; AMAZON; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE; CONNECTIVITY; CONSERVATION; SYSTEMS;
D O I
10.1016/j.cosust.2022.101175
中图分类号
X [环境科学、安全科学];
学科分类号
08 ; 0830 ;
摘要
Hydropower continues to expand globally as the power sector transitions away from carbon-intensive fossil fuels. New dam sites vary widely in the magnitude of their adverse effects on natural ecosystems and human livelihoods. Here, we discuss how strategic planning of hydropower expansion can assist decision makers in comparing the benefits of building dams against their socioenvironmental impacts. Advances in data availability and computational analysis now enable accounting for an increasing array of social and environmental metrics at ever-larger spatial scales. In turn, expanding the spatial scale of planning yields more options in the quest to improve both economic and socioenvironmental outcomes. There remains a pressing need to incorporate climate change into hydropower planning. Ultimately, these innovations in evaluating prospective dam sites should be integrated into strategic planning of the entire energy system to ensure that social and environmental disruption of river systems is minimized.
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