strategy
Opposing development of rivers
Synonyms:
Lobbying against hydropower dams Implementation:
As a result of 7 years of lobbying, the Norwegian parliament passed an act in 1993 which protect 130 rivers from hydropower development.Belize's Public Utilities Commission acknowledged in court in 2002 that it never approved plans for a hydroelectric dam that would flood the Macal River Valley, a critical wildlife corridor sheltering tapirs, howler monkeys and rare scarlet macaws. The lawsuit by Belizean environmentalists challenged the government's environmental review of the project, which largely ignored the dam's impact on wildlife and so violated the country's laws.
Broader:
Protesting environmental issuesLobbying on environmental issuesOpposing practices of global financial institutions Facilitates:
Managing degraded river basins Problems:
Environmental degradation due to creation of damsEnvironmental hazards from hydropower
Environmentally destructive redirection of water flows
Failure of development programmes
Underutilization of hydropower
Vulnerability of lakes and rivers
Water deprivation of downstream locations
References:
Qing, Dai: Yangtze ! Yangtze !United Nations Economic Commission for Europe: Application of Environmental Impact Assessment: highways and dams Subjects:
Hydrology → Rivers and lakesResources → Energy
Transportation, Telecommunications → Storage
Communication → Influencing
Development → Development
Type Classification:
D: Detailed strategies Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
