Large dams, norms and Indigenous Peoples

Schapper, Andrea; Urban, Florian

doi:10.1111/dpr.12467

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“…It should be noted that the expansion of water-intensive plantations in the Omo River was not mentioned in the dam's environmental impact assessment (Asnake et al 2009; Avery 2012), which neglected both international standards and Ethiopian domestic legislation (Schapper and Urban 2021). On the Ethiopian side, many communities were forcibly evicted from their ancestral lands (Carr 2017), and Kenyan Daasanach communities claim that they were never consulted about the project (Hathaway 2009).…”

Section: The Daasanach People and Their Environmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…On the Ethiopian side, many communities were forcibly evicted from their ancestral lands (Carr 2017), and Kenyan Daasanach communities claim that they were never consulted about the project (Hathaway 2009). The absence of social, cultural, or environmental safeguards in this infrastructure project has triggered widespread condemnation in both the international media and the scholarly literature (Schapper and Urban 2021).…”

Section: The Daasanach People and Their Environmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Interactions between Climate Change and Infrastructure Projects in Changing Water Resources: An Ethnobiological Perspective from the Daasanach, Kenya

Junqueira

Fernández‐Llamazares

Torrents-Ticó

et al. 2021

Journal of Ethnobiology

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Section: The Daasanach People and Their Environmentmentioning

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Section: The Daasanach People and Their Environmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Interactions between Climate Change and Infrastructure Projects in Changing Water Resources: An Ethnobiological Perspective from the Daasanach, Kenya

Junqueira

Fernández‐Llamazares

Torrents-Ticó

et al. 2021

Journal of Ethnobiology

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“…This discrimination and lack of sufficient compensation for these groups can result in mental and physiological health problems resulting from community breakdown. Without well-designed, equitable, and enforced benefit-sharing agreements between parties, environmental gains for some can lead to others being worse off (Schapper and Urban 2019).…”

Section: Effective Climate Policies Must Include Explicit Equity-rela...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Transitioning to Reduced Inequalities

2023

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As one of Switzerland's leading centres for sustainability transformations, the CDE is committed to create actionable knowledge for and about transformation pathways (www.cde.unibe.ch). A social geographer by background, Sabin's main research interests refer to the economic and social dimensions of sustainable development, specifically inequality and poverty. Throughout her work she has engaged with questions of power in contemporary societies, especially gender relations. Currently, she investigates global food value chains and effects of digital work on gender relations in low-income economies. Christoph Bader is Head of Transformative Education and Science Impact Area and Member of the Executive Committee at the Centre for Development and Environment at the University of Bern. An economist by training, he works in thematic fields of sustainable economies, post-growth societies, and multidimensional poverty and inequality, explaining and fostering sustainable consumption patterns and lifestyles. He teaches in BA and MA Sustainable Development study programs as well as CAS Sustainable Development. He received his MSc in economics and PhD in geography and Sustainable Development from the University of Bern.

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“…Community resistance to renewables, primarily wind, solar, and hydropower were also prominent, particularly in developing countries (70.5% of cases) (Yenneti and Day 2015, Martínez and Castillo 2016, Yenneti et al 2016, Klain et al 2017, Rasch et al 2017, Avila 2018, Delina and Sovacool 2018, Aunphattanasilp 2019, Jayapalan and Ganesh 2019, Kluskens et al 2019, Sayan 2019, Schapper and Urban 2019, Inderberg et al 2020, Martinez 2020. One article highlighted opposition to geothermal power generation (Cuppen et al 2020) and three articles examined contexts in which there was opposition to renewable technologies due to deployment that resulted in energy affordability issues (Andreas et al 2018, Monyei et al 2018, Huang andLiu 2020).…”

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Who’s fighting for justice?: advocacy in energy justice and just transition scholarship

Shelton

Eakin

2022

Environ. Res. Lett.

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Recent political, economic and policy change in the US, Australia, and Europe, in particular, have put transitions towards low-carbon energy futures at the forefront of local and national policy agendas. How these transitions are managed is likely to affect the feasibility, timing and scope of transition policy. Recognizing the existing maldistribution of the benefits and burdens of fossil fuel-based extraction, energy generation, and distribution, advocates and scholars increasingly call for policies that not only support decarbonization goals, but also those of equity. Proposals that do not contain such goals may be met with resistance. This review examines the politics of achieving more just outcomes by asking, what is our current understanding of justice advocacy and the impacts of such advocacy on the energy transition? In this study, we systematically review articles that include the key concepts of “just transition” or “energy justice” and that examine advocacy in energy transition contexts. We find advocates from diverse communities and affiliated with varied organizational types are involved in advocacy. Diverse issues motivate advocates and the most common advocate type in the literature are residents that are affected by local impacts of energy transition decisions. Extra-institutional tactics are the most common means of advocate action. We also find that advocacy is often motivated by issues related to decision-making processes and environmental degradation. These findings illuminate that: 1) energy systems and transitions are governed by processes and institutions that are often inaccessible, 2) advocates often attempt to affect change using tactics external to such processes and institutions, and 3) issues of environmental degradation are often prominent in advocacy discourse concerning the energy transition. Future research should seek to more clearly determine advocates’ primary motivations and the tactics and actions that ultimately aid or hinder more equitable outcomes.

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Large dams, norms and Indigenous Peoples

Cited by 9 publications

References 54 publications

Interactions between Climate Change and Infrastructure Projects in Changing Water Resources: An Ethnobiological Perspective from the Daasanach, Kenya

Interactions between Climate Change and Infrastructure Projects in Changing Water Resources: An Ethnobiological Perspective from the Daasanach, Kenya

Transitioning to Reduced Inequalities

Who’s fighting for justice?: advocacy in energy justice and just transition scholarship

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