Hydropower has been the leading source of renewable energy across the world, accounting
for up to 71% of this supply as of 2016. This capacity was built up in North America and …

With its chemical spills, cancer villages and frequent protests against air and water pollution,
China's litany of environmental woes is now well known. Scholars are paying increasing …

The Ayeyarwady basin, one of Asia's largest transnational river basins, shared by Myanmar,
China and India, has an immense theoretical hydropower potential of 45 GW. Currently …

Although the benefits of dam construction are numerous, particularly in the context of climate
change and growing global demand for electricity, recent experience has shown that many …

Effective greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction policies require integration across both
vertical and horizontal political jurisdictions. However, there remains much ambiguity about …

Construction of large dams on the Upper-Mekong River, China, has significant social
impacts on local communities. To analyze the social impacts, we identified three classes of …

The Incomati is a semi-arid trans-boundary river basin in southern Africa, with a high
variability of streamflow and competing water demands from irrigated agriculture, energy …

Assessing environmental risks on large dams is a challenging task. This paper describes a
study on a novel and comprehensive application of Bayesian Networks (BNs) on the …

An overview is presented of the contemporary societal and environmental development
situation in the six major transboundary river basins that drain south from China: the Red …

Hydropower development causes a multitude of negative effects on freshwater ecosystems,
and to prevent and minimize possible damage, environmental impact assessments must be …