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Título: | Reducing adverse impacts of Amazon hydropower expansion |
Autor: | Hamilton, Stephen K. Heilpern, Sebastian A. Forsberg, Bruce R. Poff, N. LeRoy Thomas, Steven A. Sethi, Suresh Andrew García Villacorta, Roosevelt Selman, Jonathan M. Gomes Angarita, Héctor A. Almeida, Rafael Marques Shi, Qinru Flecker, Alexander S. |
Palavras-chave: | Ecosystem service Environmental impact assessment |
Data do documento: | 2022 |
Revista: | Science |
É parte de: | Volume 375, Edição 6582, Págs 753 - 760. |
Abstract: | Proposed hydropower dams at more than 350 sites throughout the Amazon require strategic evaluation of trade-offs between the numerous ecosystem services provided by Earth's largest and most biodiverse river basin. These services are spatially variable, hence collective impacts of newly built dams depend strongly on their configuration. We use multiobjective optimization to identify portfolios of sites that simultaneously minimize impacts on river flow, river connectivity, sediment transport, fish diversity, and greenhouse gas emissions while achieving energy production goals. We find that uncoordinated, dam-by-dam hydropower expansion has resulted in forgone ecosystem service benefits. Minimizing further damage from hydropower development requires considering diverse environmental impacts across the entire basin, as well as cooperation among Amazonian nations. Our findings offer a transferable model for the evaluation of hydropower expansion in transboundary basins. © 2022 American Association for the Advancement of Science. All rights reserved. |
DOI: | 10.1126/science.abj4017 |
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