The Role of Infrastructure Projects in Socio-economic Development: Case study of Geheyan dam
(2012) SIMV29 20121Graduate School
- Abstract
- Previous research on hydropower projects impact on people’s socio-economic development has mainly focused on relocated people, immediately after they were relocated, arguing that relocation result in underdevelopment of people´s livelihoods. Henceforth, this research contribute to the literature through including a long-term perspective to highlight immediate and long-term impacts on relocated and non-relocated people in order to provide a more comprehensive understanding of hydropower projects´ impact. A combination of Horizontal inequality and Social wellbeing theory was adopted as theoretical framework when analyzing sentiments towards government and assessing peoples perception on their and society´s socio-economic development. A field... (More)
- Previous research on hydropower projects impact on people’s socio-economic development has mainly focused on relocated people, immediately after they were relocated, arguing that relocation result in underdevelopment of people´s livelihoods. Henceforth, this research contribute to the literature through including a long-term perspective to highlight immediate and long-term impacts on relocated and non-relocated people in order to provide a more comprehensive understanding of hydropower projects´ impact. A combination of Horizontal inequality and Social wellbeing theory was adopted as theoretical framework when analyzing sentiments towards government and assessing peoples perception on their and society´s socio-economic development. A field study was conducted in Changyang Tujia Autonomous County in China, investigating the socio-economic impact of the first hydropower project constructed in this county, named Geheyan dam. The result of this study is that Geheyan created horizontal inequality between relocated and non-relocated people immediately after relocation was realized, prominently because of rapid increase of commodity prices in combination with time-consuming process in restoring production systems. However, from a long-term perspective, it brought people out of poverty and improved both groups socio-economic development through enabling urbanization and tourism. The result is; participants’ positive perception of Geheyan, the local and central government indicate that socio-economic development improved – including both relocated and non-relocated people. (Less)
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- author
- Erdal, Zeynep LU
- supervisor
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- course
- SIMV29 20121
- year
- 2012
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- keywords
- Hydropower projects, Changyang Tujia Autonomous County, Geheyan dam, socio-economic development, Horizontal inequality, Social wellbeing theory, industrialization, urbanization, tourism.
- language
- English
- id
- 2970836
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- 2012-09-05 08:37:52
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abstract = {{Previous research on hydropower projects impact on people’s socio-economic development has mainly focused on relocated people, immediately after they were relocated, arguing that relocation result in underdevelopment of people´s livelihoods. Henceforth, this research contribute to the literature through including a long-term perspective to highlight immediate and long-term impacts on relocated and non-relocated people in order to provide a more comprehensive understanding of hydropower projects´ impact. A combination of Horizontal inequality and Social wellbeing theory was adopted as theoretical framework when analyzing sentiments towards government and assessing peoples perception on their and society´s socio-economic development. A field study was conducted in Changyang Tujia Autonomous County in China, investigating the socio-economic impact of the first hydropower project constructed in this county, named Geheyan dam. The result of this study is that Geheyan created horizontal inequality between relocated and non-relocated people immediately after relocation was realized, prominently because of rapid increase of commodity prices in combination with time-consuming process in restoring production systems. However, from a long-term perspective, it brought people out of poverty and improved both groups socio-economic development through enabling urbanization and tourism. The result is; participants’ positive perception of Geheyan, the local and central government indicate that socio-economic development improved – including both relocated and non-relocated people.}},
author = {{Erdal, Zeynep}},
language = {{eng}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{The Role of Infrastructure Projects in Socio-economic Development: Case study of Geheyan dam}},
year = {{2012}},
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