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The invisibility of fisheries in the process of hydropower development across the Amazon.
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8 citing papers in PubMed.
- Importance and spatial patterns of invisible fisheries in Amazonian clear-water rivers as revealed by fisher knowledge and collaboration.Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology · 2026Article
- Large hydropower projects increase stress despite compensation efforts: Evidence from the Brazilian Amazon.PloS one · 2023Article
- The impact of hydropower dam construction on malaria incidence: Space-time analysis in the Brazilian Amazon.PLOS global public health · 2023Article
- Advancing convergence research: Renewable energy solutions for off-grid communities.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
- Large-scale Degradation of the Tocantins-Araguaia River Basin.Environmental management · 2021Article
- The Downstream Impacts of Hydropower Dams and Indigenous and Local Knowledge: Examples from the Peace-Athabasca, Mekong, and Amazon.Environmental management · 2021Article
- Sustainable hydropower in the 21st century.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2018Article
- Counting the fish eaten rather than the fish caught.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2018Article
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Abstract
We analyze the invisibility of fisheries and inadequacy of fishers' participation in the process of hydropower development in the Amazon, focusing on gaps between legally mandated and actual outcomes. Using Ostrom's institutional design principles for assessing common-pool resource management, we selected five case studies from Brazilian Amazonian watersheds to conduct an exploratory comparative case-study analysis. We identify similar problems across basins, including deficiencies in the dam licensing process; critical data gaps; inadequate stakeholder participation; violation of human rights; neglect of fishers' knowledge; lack of organization and representation by fishers' groups; and lack of governmental structure and capacity to manage dam construction activities or support fishers after dam construction. Fishers have generally been marginalized or excluded from decision-making regarding planning, construction, mitigation, compensation, and monitoring of the social-ecological impacts of hydroelectric dams. Addressing these deficiencies will require concerted investments and efforts by dam developers, government agencies and civil society, and the promotion of inter-sectorial dialogue and cross-scale participatory planning and decision-making that includes fishers and their associations.
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