Trading-off fish biodiversity, food security, and hydropower in the Mekong River Basin

By G. Ziv, E. Baran, S. Nam, I. Rodríguez‐Iturbe, Simon A. Levin. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2011

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Subfields: Aquatic Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Should We Build More Large Dams? The Actual Costs of Hydropower Megaproject Development (2014, background): “Beyond the financial calculus, large dams have profound environmental (McCully, 2001; Scudder, 2005; Stone, 2011), ecological (Nilsson et al., 2005; Ziv et al., 2012), and social (Bakker, 1999; Duflo and Pande, 2007; Richter et al.”
Socio‐hydrology: Use‐inspired water sustainability science for the Anthropocene (2014, positive): “Examples of wicked problems that continue to vex scientists and policy makers include: trade-offs among ecosystems, hydropower, and livelihoods in the transnational Mekong Basin [Ziv et al., 2012]; effects of human settlements in flood-prone areas on increased flood risk and fatalities in Africa [Di”
The Global Food‐Energy‐Water Nexus (2018, background): “These fisheries are particularly sensitive to dam construction because of disruptions of migratory fish stocks (Ziv et al., 2012).”
Disentangling dam impacts in river networks (2014, background): “But, for example, Ziv et al. (2012) demonstrate the damaging impact on 90 resident fish populations at river basin scale revealing strong impacts of upstream tributary dams on 91 overall sustainability of fish populations.”
An index-based framework for assessing patterns and trends in river fragmentation and flow regulation by global dams at multiple scales (2017, background): “…is particularly important for river ecology because of its relation to species migration and dispersal (Fukushima et al 2007, Cote et al 2009, Ziv et al 2012) as well as its role in community structure and biodiversity patterns in river channels (Altermatt 2013) and riparian zones (Jansson…”
Inland capture fishery contributions to global food security and threats to their future (2014, background): “…as diversion or damming of water for hydropower, agriculture and municipal use, are competing demands for freshwater that generally degrade fish habitat and can lead to lower abundance and productivity of existing fish species or extinction of some fish populations altogether (Ziv et al., 2012).”
Emerging threats and persistent conservation challenges for freshwater biodiversity (2018, background): “…security of river-dependent peoples may also be impaired by hydropower, including proposed projects in large river systems such as the Amazon (Winemiller et al. , 2016) and Mekong (Orr et al. , 2012; Ziv et al. , 2012) – basins with high ﬁsh biodiversity that historically had limited hydropower.”
Renewable energy and biodiversity: Implications for transitioning to a Green Economy (2017, background): “The above suggests that hydropower expansion can be a potent threat to biological diversity in parts of the world that host unique and highly biodiverse ecosystems such as Amazonia [87,88,93,123], the Himalayas [124,125], China [126,127], the Mekong River delta [128] and tropical Africa [92].”
Impacts of hydroelectric dams on fishes and fisheries in tropical rivers through the lens of functional traits (2019, background): “Introduction Hydropower development represents a major threat to fish biodiversity and the maintenance of critically important fisheries worldwide [1,2], with potential to damage food security and rural livelihoods in tropical regions [3,4].”