Daniel Rondinelli Roquetti , Simone Athayde , José Silva-Lugo , Evandro Mateus Moretto
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Abstract
Livelihood changes associated with forced displacement caused by large dams occur in a context of socio-environmental transformation, raising the question on how resettled people cope with and adapt while experiencing environmental change. This article analyses how environmental change is connected to householdś livelihood in communities displaced by the Madeira River hydroelectric dams, Santo Antônio and the Jirau, in the Brazilian Amazon. We adopted a mixed methods approach, exploring qualitative and quantitative aspects of the relationship between environmental changes and households’ livelihood. The results indicate the decline of ecosystem-related activities, such as fisheries and floodplain agriculture, through the process of resettlement, period in which took place the major negative environmental impacts of the dams. These overlapped processes contributed to the livelihood displacement experienced by resettled communities, a trend intensified by the resettlement plans addressed by Impact Assessment process that incentivized the adoption of socioeconomic practices that weren’t part of peoples’ livelihoods, such as market-oriented agriculture and pisciculture projects. Such trends call for the urgency of preventing displacement over treating it by mitigation and compensation measures that fail to account immaterial losses, a crucial subject for future research. The results may help improve the revision of the resettlement plans for the studied dams, others in the region and plans for projects yet to come.
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Global Environmental Change is a prestigious international journal that publishes articles of high quality, both theoretically and empirically rigorous. The journal aims to contribute to the understanding of global environmental change from the perspectives of human and policy dimensions. Specifically, it considers global environmental change as the result of processes occurring at the local level, but with wide-ranging impacts on various spatial, temporal, and socio-political scales.
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