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The Political Economy of Hydropower in Southwest China and Beyond

Part of the International Political Economy Series Book Series

Editors: Rousseau, Jean-François; Habich-Sobiegalla, Sabrina

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-59361-2

ISBN: 978-3-030-59360-5

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Jan 16, 2021

1 - 10 of 14 Chapters

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Introduction: Southwest China’s Hydropower Expansion and Why It Matters There and Beyond

Rousseau, Jean-François; Habich-Sobiegalla, Sabrina

Pages: 1 –22

[The installed capacity of the dams built in China in the first two decades of the twenty-first century is greater than the combined capacity of all the dams ever built in the United States and Brazil, the world’s second- and third-largest hydropower generators. Southwest China contains about...
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The Water-Energy Nexus of Southwest China’s Rapid Hydropower Development: Challenges and Trade-Offs in the Interaction Between Hydropower Generation and Utilisation

Hennig, Thomas; Magee, Darrin

Pages: 25 –47

[Southwest China plays a key role in global hydropower; its current installed capacity is roughly equal to that of the rest of Asia. This immense hydropower capacity stems from some of the world’s largest dams as well as the world’s greatest density of smaller projects. However, our knowledge...
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Leaving the Three Gorges After Resettlement: Who Left, Why Did They Leave, and Where Did They Go?

Wilmsen, Brooke; van Hulten, Andrew; Duan, Yuefang

Pages: 49 –68

[Studies of dam resettlement in China tend to focus on those who remain in resettlement sites, producing a distorted discourse of life after resettlement. Households and individuals often move out of resettlement sites but, because they are difficult to trace, there is limited research about...
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Contestation Over Moral Economy: Distant Resettlement from the Three Gorges Area to the Pearl River Delta

Gransow, Bettina

Pages: 69 –87

[In the early 2000s, resettlers from the Three Gorges Dam area were accompanied by leading cadres, state propaganda, and media coverage on their migration to South China. As people displaced for the national good, they saw themselves as deserving material and social recognition and entitled to...
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Population Resettlement for Hydropower Development in the Lancang River Basin: An Evolving Policy Framework and Its Implications for Local People

Tilt, Bryan; Chen, Zhuo

Pages: 89 –106

[Hydropower is a crucial part of China’s energy portfolio and will remain key to reducing the country’s future reliance on fossil fuels. Yet hydropower dams cause the displacement of individuals and communities who live near them, affecting homes, employment, and farmland. Our focus in this...
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Social Stability, Migrant Subjectivities, and Citizenship in China’s Resettlement Policies

Habich-Sobiegalla, Sabrina; Plümmer, Franziska

Pages: 107 –123

[This chapter rethinks citizenship and migrant subjectivities in the context of dam development in China. In detail we answer the following questions: How have the rationalities put forth by Chinese dam resettlement policies changed since the 1980s? Which new practices have evolved that are used...
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Green and Pro-Poor? Analysing Social Benefits of Small Hydropower in Yunnan, China

Harlan, Tyler

Pages: 127 –145

[Historically, China’s central government has promoted small hydropower (SHP) as a pro-poor technology for rural electrification in the mountainous southwest of the country. Since the early 2000s, when SHP construction began to boom, the government has also framed it as a green technology that...
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Small Hydropower for Electricity and Modernity: Impacts on the Everyday Lives of Minority Communities in Yunnan’s Nu River Valley

Ptak, Thomas

Pages: 147 –170

[Development of energy infrastructure has long been pivotal in shaping contemporary issues in China, and geographically uneven development is a perennial challenge for central, provincial, and local government organs. As China has moved away from reliance on coal power in favour of renewable...
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As Time Goes by… Longitudinal Analysis of Dam Impacts Upon Livelihood Strategies in the Red River Valley

Rousseau, Jean-François

Pages: 171 –189

[Dams are often components of socioeconomic modernisation projects. In Southwest China, ongoing hydropower expansion and the social project it partakes in have widely impacted ethnic minority societies for whom natural resources are core livelihood assets and cultural markers. Previous...
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Technical and Policy Constraints on the Role of Chinese Hydropower in a Renewable Mekong Region

Magee, Darrin

Pages: 193 –214

[Southwestern China has an abundance of hydroelectricity thanks to favourable geography, hefty government investment, and skilled workers and professionals at all levels of the hydropower sector. Yet even as new dams are being built across the region, existing ones are often under-utilised due to...

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