Sentence examples for negative hydropower from inspiring English sources
A database consisting of 81 observations derived from 29 studies valuing the non-market impacts of hydropower electricity generation is constructed with the main aim to quantify and explain the economic values for positive and negative hydropower externalities.
These findings provide a clear picture of both positive and negative effects of hydropower development for decision-makers in the monetary term, and also provide a basis for further design of environmental instrument such as payment for watershed ecosystem services.
Hydropower development brings many negative impacts on watershed ecosystems which are not fully integrated into current decision-making largely because in practice few accept the cost and benefit beyond market.
Tropical deforestation and land use change is often perceived as the major cause of soil loss by water erosion and of sediment load in rivers that has a negative impact on the functioning of hydropower storage reservoirs.
On the other hand, such hydropower dependency not only has led to significant negative impacts on Brazil's rivers and river-based communities, but also makes the country vulnerable to energy shortages from droughts, which are projected to increase due to climate change.
Chen Deming, one of the government's top economic planners, said hydropower was a critical noncarbon energy source and described the negative impacts of dams as "controllable".
"Without more careful assessment and planning, negative ecological, social, and even monetary impacts will accompany construction of new hydropower in the world's tropical rivers," the authors concluded.
Rapid dewatering in rivers as a consequence of hydropower operations may cause stranding of juvenile fish and have a negative impact on fish populations.
Water (small-scale hydropower).
Hydropower provides a modest net benefit.
Billion-dollar hydropower deals could bring prosperity to one of the world's poorest countries, but hasty development could have wide ranging negative impacts on ecosystems and human rights.
