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Dual ecological and socio-cultural fragmentation induced by hydropower dams: case studies from the Greater Himalayan region of India

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Gupta G, Kotiyal R & Jones I (2024) Dual ecological and socio-cultural fragmentation induced by hydropower dams: case studies from the Greater Himalayan region of India. Zoological Research Diversity and Conservation. https://doi.org/10.24272/j.issn.2097-3772.2023.008

Abstract
First paragraph: Climate change and biodiversity loss are pressing global challenges (Pörtner et al., 2021). However, as global energy demand continues to increase (IEA, 2021), nations face significant challenges to decarbonization and reaching “net zero” due to trade-offs between the often-competing needs of renewable energy generation and biodiversity conservation. For example, hydropower generates renewable energy (Gibson et al., 2017), yet there are well-documented and severe consequences of dam development for biodiversity (e.g., Zarfl et al., 2019) and people (e.g., Bisht, 2009) due to reservoir creation and disruption of river flows. Despite such potentially damaging ecological and social trade-offs, hydropower currently contributes 70% of global renewable energy and there are at least 3 700 large dams planned or under construction globally (Zhang & Gu, 2023).

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Zoological Research Diversity and Conservation

StatusIn Press
FundersMRC Medical Research Council
Publication date online23/02/2024
Date accepted by journal06/12/2023
URLhttp://hdl.handle.net/1893/36082
ISSN2097-3772
eISSN2097-3772

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Dr Isabel Jones

Dr Isabel Jones

Senior Research Fellow, Biological and Environmental Sciences

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