Damming the rivers of the Amazon basin
More than a hundred hydropower dams have already been built in the Amazon basin and numerous proposals for further dam constructions are under consideration. The accumulated negative environmental effects of existing dams and proposed dams, if constructed, will trigger massive hydrophysical and biot...
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| author | Latrubesse, E Arima, E Dunne, T Park, E Baker, V dHorta, F Wight, C Wittmann, F Zuanon, J Baker, P Ribas, C Norgaard, R Filizola, N Ansar, A Flyvbjerg, B Stevaux, J |
| author_facet | Latrubesse, E Arima, E Dunne, T Park, E Baker, V dHorta, F Wight, C Wittmann, F Zuanon, J Baker, P Ribas, C Norgaard, R Filizola, N Ansar, A Flyvbjerg, B Stevaux, J |
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| description | More than a hundred hydropower dams have already been built in the Amazon basin and numerous proposals for further dam constructions are under consideration. The accumulated negative environmental effects of existing dams and proposed dams, if constructed, will trigger massive hydrophysical and biotic disturbances that will affect the Amazon basin’s floodplains, estuary and sediment plume. We introduce a Dam Environmental Vulnerability Index to quantify the current and potential impacts of dams in the basin. The scale of foreseeable environmental degradation indicates the need for collective action among nations and states to avoid cumulative, far-reaching impacts. We suggest institutional innovations to assess and avoid the likely impoverishment of Amazon rivers. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:12edd609-9414-482e-86c1-0c25952926232022-03-26T10:10:54ZDamming the rivers of the Amazon basinJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:12edd609-9414-482e-86c1-0c2595292623Symplectic Elements at OxfordNature Publishing Group2017Latrubesse, EArima, EDunne, TPark, EBaker, VdHorta, FWight, CWittmann, FZuanon, JBaker, PRibas, CNorgaard, RFilizola, NAnsar, AFlyvbjerg, BStevaux, JMore than a hundred hydropower dams have already been built in the Amazon basin and numerous proposals for further dam constructions are under consideration. The accumulated negative environmental effects of existing dams and proposed dams, if constructed, will trigger massive hydrophysical and biotic disturbances that will affect the Amazon basin’s floodplains, estuary and sediment plume. We introduce a Dam Environmental Vulnerability Index to quantify the current and potential impacts of dams in the basin. The scale of foreseeable environmental degradation indicates the need for collective action among nations and states to avoid cumulative, far-reaching impacts. We suggest institutional innovations to assess and avoid the likely impoverishment of Amazon rivers. |
| spellingShingle | Latrubesse, E Arima, E Dunne, T Park, E Baker, V dHorta, F Wight, C Wittmann, F Zuanon, J Baker, P Ribas, C Norgaard, R Filizola, N Ansar, A Flyvbjerg, B Stevaux, J Damming the rivers of the Amazon basin |
| title | Damming the rivers of the Amazon basin |
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