Sharing hydropower revenues in Nepal, over time and across districts and regions

Balasubramanya, Soumya; Giordano, Mark; Wichelns, Dennis; Sherpa, Tashi Yang Chung

doi:10.1016/j.wrr.2014.10.007

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“…From the perspective of the international literature on Benefit-Sharing Mechanism, it is plausible to consider that the quality of resource management also has a relevant role concerning the quantity of these resources. This quality is considered a key point for the effectiveness of Benefit-Sharing Mechanism (Égré et al, 2007;UNEP, 2007;Wang, 2012;Balasubramanya et al, 2014), as well its interconnections with the affected communities (Dombrowsky et al, 2014;Sparkes, 2014;Wichelns, 2014) and also the opportunity to consider the management framework as a system immersed in a complex and dynamic environment (Sadoff and Grey, 2005;Lebel et al, 2014;Soliev and Theesfeld, 2017).…”

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“…Seeing that municipalities are free to decide how to apply these resources, the received Financial Compensation is added to other municipal revenues. Balasubramanya et al (2014) demonstrated that the unequal distribution of resources to localities might influence their economic results. Hence, the amount of Financial Compensation distributed to municipalities compared to the total amount of municipal revenue can be understood as an important element that could be linked to human development processes of the municipality.…”

Section: Benefit-sharing Mechanismsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Evaluating Monetary-Based Benefit-Sharing as a Mechanism to Improve Local Human Development and its Importance for Impact Assessment of Hydropower Plants in Brazil

Pulice

Branco

Gallardo

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J. Env. Assmt. Pol. Mgmt.

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Although hydropower companies and governments have promoted monetary-based Benefit-Sharing Mechanisms alone as a vector of local development for flooded municipalities, it is not possible to identify this evidence in the scientific literature. The present work investigates the quantitative influence of Financial Compensation on Human Development Indexes (HDI) in flooded municipalities over 2000–2010. The econometric analysis shows that there are no statistically significant results related to the quantities of Financial Compensation and the development variables. The findings reinforce that Financial Compensation itself could not be considered the only input to improve development processes. Management frameworks should be considered since they can provide a broader view of the affected areas, including elements such as participatory processes, adaptation management, formal and legal guidelines and stakeholder engagement. Specially in the Brazilian case, the Impact Assessment procedures and their products could provide detailed data and criteria to municipalities to manage the inflow resources.

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Section: Benefit-sharing Mechanismsmentioning

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Evaluating Monetary-Based Benefit-Sharing as a Mechanism to Improve Local Human Development and its Importance for Impact Assessment of Hydropower Plants in Brazil

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Gallardo

et al. 2019

J. Env. Assmt. Pol. Mgmt.

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“…Aggrieved locals or project workers use a variety of temporally-oriented tactics to slow or interrupt the progress of projects-ranging from roadblocks and labor strikes to sit-ins and hunger strikes-forcing companies to recognize their demands and negotiate (Arora, 2009;Dixit & Gyawali, 2010;Drew, 2017a;Menon, 2019). Project developers, in turn, attempt to avoid frictions and project delays by initiating "benefit sharing" programs (Balasubramanya, Giordano, Wichelns, & Sherpa, 2014;Pandey, 1996;Shrestha et al, 2016) or other forms of community investment under a post-WCD banner of "corporate social responsibility" (Ahlers et al, 2015;Bhan, 2014). These programs are temporally calibrated with project construction timelines, the temporalities of project finance, and local expectations.…”

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Timescapes of Himalayan hydropower: Promises, project life cycles, and precarities

2020

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In this paper, we review the existing social science scholarship focused on hydropower development in the Himalayan region, using an interpretive lens attuned to issues of time and temporality. While the spatial politics of Himalayan hydropower are well examined in the literature, an explicit examination of temporal politics is lacking. In this paper, we present a conceptual framework organized around the heuristic of timescapes, highlighting temporal themes implicit in the existing literature. In three sections, we explore the temporal politics of anticipation that shape hydropower dreams, the intersecting temporalities and rhythms that modulate the life cycles of hydropower projects, and the ways that geological and hydrological time affect both hydropower development and broader Himalayan futures. Along the way, we pose a series of questions useful for framing future research given the significant climatic, geophysical, and sociopolitical changes underway in the Himalayan bioregion, calling for greater analytical attention to time, temporality, and temporal ethics in future studies of hydropower in the Himalayas and beyond.

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“…Another group of authors has focused on environmental impacts that affect the ecosystem of a territory in which people are settled. This would be supported by the arguments advanced by Moran et al [9] in line with Lebel et al [21], Branche [78], Chauhan [84] and Siciliano et al [20], who assert that environmental degradation, flooding, altered aquatic systems and loss of biodiversity are common consequences of the execution of hydropower projects. In agreement with Roa and Duarte [55], these environmental transformations have also had a negative impact on the livelihoods of the populations that depend on the river, jeopardising their safety and food autonomy.…”

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Good living of communities and sustainability of the hydropower business: mapping an operational framework for benefit sharing

2021

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The negative impact of hydropower companies is cushioned frequently through compensation that is proportional neither to the needs of communities nor to the energy business. Considering the dependence of hydropower on the environment, it is unclear how the good living of communities can be combined with the long-term sustainability of power companies. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to establish a benefit sharing scheme between hydropower companies and local communities. We conducted a systematic literature review using a sequential mixed-method approach. In the first stage, we performed a quantitative bibliometric analysis, and its results, described in Model 1.0, were the basis of the second stage. Consequently, in the second stage, we conducted a content analysis of 40 documents to enrich the previous version of the model in Framework 2.0. After completing both the methodological stages, we prepared a theoretical operational framework for benefit sharing based on collaborative governance that assigned different specific weights for companies and local communities. Equal benefit sharing is the result of an adaptive process that depends on (1) the performance of companies, (2) the level of empowerment of communities and (3) the state’s capacity to intervene in setting rules of engagement that help reduce power asymmetries between companies and the society.

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Sharing hydropower revenues in Nepal, over time and across districts and regions

Cited by 5 publications

References 11 publications

Evaluating Monetary-Based Benefit-Sharing as a Mechanism to Improve Local Human Development and its Importance for Impact Assessment of Hydropower Plants in Brazil

Evaluating Monetary-Based Benefit-Sharing as a Mechanism to Improve Local Human Development and its Importance for Impact Assessment of Hydropower Plants in Brazil

Timescapes of Himalayan hydropower: Promises, project life cycles, and precarities

Good living of communities and sustainability of the hydropower business: mapping an operational framework for benefit sharing

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