Environmental justice and Chinese dam-building in the global South

Main author: Siciliano, Giuseppina
Other authors: Del Bene, Daniela
Scheidel, Arnim
Liu, Juan
Urban, Frauke
Format: Journal Article           
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institution SOAS, University of London
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description Chinese investments in large hydropower dams have rapidly increased all over the world in the last 20 years. Some of these projects have been contested both from a technological and political point of view due to the ways in which decisions have been made, as well as in relation to the resulting social-ecological change and ecological distributional aspects. From an Environmental Justice perspective, this paper analyses the main drivers and contested aspects of Chinese hydropower investments in the global South. The paper builds on Chinese projects located in different regions of the world, by combining information from the literature and the Global Atlas of Environmental Justice – EJAtlas dataset. Based on the analysis of Chinese hydropower projects and environmental justice concerns, this paper sheds light on the current literature on drivers and multidimensional conflictive outcomes of these large hydropower dam investments.
format Journal Article
author Siciliano, Giuseppina
author_facet Siciliano, Giuseppina
Del Bene, Daniela
Scheidel, Arnim
Liu, Juan
Urban, Frauke
authorStr Siciliano, Giuseppina
author_letter Siciliano, Giuseppina
author2 Del Bene, Daniela
Scheidel, Arnim
Liu, Juan
Urban, Frauke
author2Str Del Bene, Daniela
Scheidel, Arnim
Liu, Juan
Urban, Frauke
title Environmental justice and Chinese dam-building in the global South
publisher Elsevier
publishDate 2019
url https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/32647/