资源环境科技发展态势分析平台

Large hydropower infrastructure development is a key energy priority in low and middle income countries as" a means to increase energy access and promote national development. Nevertheless hydropower darns can also negatively impact people's livelihoods by reducing access to local natural resources such as land, water and food. This paper analyses equity-based resource allocation from an ecological economics perspective, by looking at local resource use competition between different uses (food, energy, livelihoods) and users (villagers, urban settlers, local government and dam builders) in selected case studies in Asia and Africa. It also illustrates from a political ecology approach divergences between national priorities of energy production and growth and local development needs. Crown Copyright (C) 2017 Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.