Synthesizing dam-induced land system change.
Causal effects
Counterfactuals
Land use displacement
Land use intensity
Meta-study
Journal
Ambio
ISSN: 1654-7209
Titre abrégé: Ambio
Pays: Sweden
ID NLM: 0364220
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Oct 2019
Oct 2019
Historique:
received:
11
06
2018
accepted:
29
12
2018
revised:
20
09
2018
pubmed:
10
1
2019
medline:
12
10
2019
entrez:
10
1
2019
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Dam construction and operation modify land systems. We synthesized 178 observations of dam-induced land system changes from 54 peer-reviewed case studies. Changing extents of forests (23%), agricultural land (21%), and built-up areas (11%) were reported frequently, alongside alterations in land use intensity (23%). Land cover changes were mostly related to hydropower and multi-purpose dams, while irrigation dams dominantly caused land use intensity changes. While a significant share of the changes was caused by reservoir flooding (29%), indirect effects which interact with societal and environmental systems (42%) were of utmost importance. We suggested the distance to the dam and the time since commissioning as potential controls for the direction of land system changes. Our insights provide opportunities for future inductive investigations across large populations of dams at regional to global scales and highlight that multi-disciplinary research perspectives are imperative for the production of generalizable knowledge.
Identifiants
pubmed: 30623360
doi: 10.1007/s13280-018-01144-z
pii: 10.1007/s13280-018-01144-z
pmc: PMC6722260
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
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