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https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-6-195-2015
https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-6-195-2015
Research article
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15 Apr 2015
Research article |  | 15 Apr 2015

Framing hydropower as green energy: assessing drivers, risks and tensions in the Eastern Himalayas

R. Ahlers, J. Budds, D. Joshi, V. Merme, and M. Zwarteveen

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Ambitious hydropower plans in the Eastern Himalayas prominently involve the private finance sector. We question the framing of hydropower as green energy, interrogate its links with climate change, and examine its potential for investment and capital accumulation and show a number of serious contradictions. Impacts cannot be simply predicted, controlled or mitigated. More focus on political economic drivers and geo-ecological uncertainties infused with localized understandings is sorely needed.
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