Mapping the social impacts of small dams: The case of Thailand’s Ing River basin

Fung, Zali; Pomun, Teerapong; Charles, Katrina; Kirchherr, Julian

doi:10.1007/s13280-018-1062-7

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“…However, dam construction has significant social (including out-migration), economic (such as employment, income, and etc. ), and ecological (including changes in cropping pattern and ecosystem) impacts on downstream of their construction (Richter and Thomas, 2007;Fung et al, 2019;Sok et al, 2019). Dams lead to drying wetlands (Kingsford, 2000), changing patterns of land morphology, use, and flow (Gordon and Meentemeyer, 2006;Zhao et al, 2010), relocation, resettlement and dramatic population migration (Xi and Hwang, 2011;Lerer and Scudder, 1999), accumulation of sediment (Yang et al, 2005;Kondolf et al, 2014;Rãdoane and Radoane, 2005), changes in the quality and characteristics of water (Brainwood et al, 2004), as well as the destruction of forests and wildlife in the areas downstream (Benchimol and Peres, 2015).…”

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Evaluating rural participation in wetland management: A contingent valuation analysis of the set-aside policy in Iran

Eskandari-Damaneh¹,

Noroozi

Ghoochani

et al. 2020

Science of The Total Environment

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Growing conditions of water scarcity and population growth necessitate measures for improved water availability to meet agricultural, industrial, and domestic and consumer water demands; generating new environmental pressures on wetlands and other aquatic ecosystems. In Iran, the "set-aside program" incentivizes farmer participation in wetland conservation through mandated land management practices, making them key stakeholders in environmental conservation action. This study explores attitudes to participation in the set-aside wetland conservation program to revive the Jazmurian wetland in Iran, using a random sample of 226 farmer-stakeholder respondents. Farmers were surveyed to investigate economic and social participation using a willingness to accept (WTA) and willingness to pay (in money per ha) (WTP) model. Results show strong (45%) respondent opposition to wetland conservation participation. On the basis of their WTA, the amount of compensation offered by the villagers was significantly affected by "the cultivated area", "gender", "education", "family size", "residency", "income", "moralism", and "Inverse Mills Ratio index" factors. Also, "the cultivated area", "age", "education", "marital status", "family size", and "income" were found to be significantly affecting their WTP. We argue firstly, that policies to improve wetland conservation must join together infrastructure and agricultural development planning -such that dam projects, agricultural and water conservation planning are better integrated across wetland catchments. Secondly, that wetland conservation participation will be improved through land consolidation agreements for small-holders, and through incomes stabilisation, capacity building, social learning and awareness-raising initiatives for farmers towards sustainable agricultural practices.

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Section: Wetland Managementmentioning

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Evaluating rural participation in wetland management: A contingent valuation analysis of the set-aside policy in Iran

Eskandari-Damaneh¹,

Noroozi

Ghoochani

et al. 2020

Science of The Total Environment

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“…Très peu d'articles s'attachent en effet à décrire la construction ou à discuter l'existence de petits barrages. Pourtant les petits barrages sont aussi source d'impacts environnementaux (FUNG et al 2018) ; les petites et micro-centrales peuvent d'ailleurs être au centre de débats en raison de leurs possibles conséquences négatives sur les populations riveraines (KELLY-RICHARDS et al 2017). À l'heure où les micro-centrales sont de plus en plus valorisées par les dirigeants français et étrangers (ibid.…”

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“…À lui seul, le barrage des Trois Gorges (en Chine), qui constitue le record mondial, a entraîné le déplacement de plus de 1,3 millions d'habitants de la vallée du Yangzi (S. JACKSON et SLEIGH 2000). Ensuite, les barrages, petits et grands (FUNG et al 2018), sont à l'origine d'altérations écologiques ; ils entraînent une transformation majeure des hydrosystèmes (modification de l'hydrologie, du niveau phréatique, du transit sédimentaire, du profil longitudinal, de la température de l'eau. .…”

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Representations of dams: infrastructures, concessions and controversies

Flaminio

2020

La Houille Blanche

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This paper synthesises the objectives, methodologies and results of my PhD thesis. As we observe the resurgence of dam building throughout the world, this research analyses the representations of dams and their spatial and temporal trajectories. Building on the literature of social and cultural geography on representation, and the writings of political ecology on discourse, the thesis confronted different sources (newspapers, interviews and archives), study areas (in France and Australia) and methodological approaches (quantitative and qualitative) in order to follow the discursive evolution of hydraulic infrastructure. The points of view of various stakeholders were also considered: inhabitants, engineers and hydraulic institutions, opponents to dams, administrations in charge of nature protection and scientists who produce environmental knowledge. From a methodological perspective, the dissertation highlights the limits in using certain material and illustrates the necessity to consider different sources in parallel. The results show the evolution of waterscapes, hydrosocial spaces and cycles – the gradual concessions made to environmentalists at the expense of hydraulic bureaucracies – but they also illustrate, on a broader perspective, the production and the flow of discourses on the environment – the decline of a Promethean discourse on nature and the multiplication of different and sometimes opposing representations of the environment – particularly during conflicts and controversies.

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“…The amount of attention given to the social impact of hydraulic engineering construction is increasing and the World Commission on Dams has proposed a systematic dam social impact assessment system which provides guidelines for assessing the social impact of hydraulic projects [18][19][20]. Since then, the social impact assessments for water conservancy projects and the combination of qualitative and quantitative methods have been being adopted [21][22][23][24][25]. Existing research on social impact assessments for water conservancy projects indicates that they were late to be established and that existing assessments are focused on dam construction and operation.…”

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Evaluation of Dam Break Social Impact Assessments Based on an Improved Variable Fuzzy Set Model

He¹,

Jaturapitakkul²,

Qin³

et al. 2020

Water

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In recent years attention has shifted from “dam safety” to “dam risk” due to the high loss characteristics of dam breaks. Despite this, there has been little research on social impact assessments. Variable fuzzy sets (VFSs) are a theoretical system for dealing with uncertainty that are used in many industries. However, the relative membership degree (RMD) calculations required for VFSs are complicated and data can be overlooked. Furthermore, the RMD is highly subjective when dealing with qualitative problems, which can seriously affect the accuracy of the results. This study introduces grey system theory (GST) which analyzes the RMD characteristics to improve traditional VFSs. A new method for calculating the social impact of a dam break is proposed based on the correlation between the core parameters of the two theories. The Liujiatai Reservoir is used as a test case and the new and traditional evaluation methods are compared. The results show that the proposed method has advantages when dealing with uncertainty that are consistent with the characteristics of the problems associated with dam break social impact assessments. Moreover, the evaluation results obtained using the proposed method are consistent with, or more accurate than, those obtained using the traditional method.

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Mapping the social impacts of small dams: The case of Thailand’s Ing River basin

Cited by 28 publications

References 28 publications

Evaluating rural participation in wetland management: A contingent valuation analysis of the set-aside policy in Iran

Evaluating rural participation in wetland management: A contingent valuation analysis of the set-aside policy in Iran

Representations of dams: infrastructures, concessions and controversies

Evaluation of Dam Break Social Impact Assessments Based on an Improved Variable Fuzzy Set Model

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