What Makes a Megaproject?

IF 3.1 Q2 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Environment and Society-Advances in Research Pub Date : 2019-09-01 DOI:10.3167/ARES.2019.100107

Grant M. Gutierrez, Sarah H. Kelly, J. Cousins, C. Sneddon

引用次数: 15

Abstract

This article reviews how global hydropower assemblages catalyze socioecological change in the world’s rivers. As a quintessential megaproject, massive dams and the hydropower they generate have long captivated the modernist development imaginary. Yet, despite growing recognition of the socio-ecological consequences of hydropower, it has recently assumed a central role in supporting renewable energy transitions. We highlight three trends in hydropower politics that characterize global hydropower assemblages: mega-dams as markers of nation-state development; river protection by territorial alliances and social movements opposed to hydropower; and transitions from spectacular, centralized hydropower installations to the propagation of small and large hydropower within climate mitigation schemes. We offer insights on how global hydropower assemblages force examination beyond traditional categories of “mega” through more holistic and grounded analyses of significance.

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什么是大型项目?

本文综述了全球水电组合如何催化世界河流的社会生态变化。作为一个典型的大型项目，大型水坝及其产生的水力发电长期以来一直吸引着现代主义发展的想象。然而，尽管人们越来越认识到水电的社会生态后果，但它最近在支持可再生能源转型方面发挥了核心作用。我们强调了水电政治的三个趋势，这些趋势是全球水电组合的特征：作为民族国家发展标志的巨型水坝；领土联盟和反对水力发电的社会运动保护河流；以及从壮观的集中水电设施向在气候缓解计划内推广小型和大型水电的过渡。我们通过更全面、更有根据的意义分析，深入了解全球水电组合如何迫使人们超越传统的“巨型”类别进行审查。

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Environment and Society-Advances in Research ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES-

CiteScore

2.30

自引率

0.00%

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审稿时长

16 weeks

期刊介绍： Environment and Society: Advances in Research is an annual review journal, publishing articles that have been commissioned in response to specific published calls.The field of research on environment and society is growing rapidly and becoming of ever-greater importance not only in academia but also in policy circles and for the public at large. This growth reflects the urgency of debate and the pace and scale of change with respect to the water crisis, deforestation, biodiversity loss, the looming energy crisis, nascent resource wars, environmental refugees, climate change, and environmental justice, which are just some of the many compelling challenges facing society today and in the future. It also reflects the richness and insights of scholarship exploring diverse cultural forms, social phenomena, and political-economic formations in which society and nature are intricately intertwined, if not indistinguishable. As a forum to address these issues, we are delighted to present an important peer-reviewed annual: Environment and Society: Advances in Research. Through this journal we hope to stimulate advanced research and action on these and other critical issues and encourage international communication and exchange among all relevant disciplines. Environment and Society publishes critical reviews of the latest research literature on environmental studies, including subjects of theoretical, methodological, substantive, and applied significance. Articles also survey the literature regionally and thematically and reflect the work of anthropologists, geographers, environmental scientists, and human ecologists from all parts of the world in order to internationalize the conversations within environmental anthropology, environmental geography, and other environmentally oriented social sciences. The publication will appeal to academic, research, and policy-making audiences alike.