Fishers’ Knowledge Identifies Potential Socio-Ecological Impacts Downstream of a Proposed Dam in a Tropical River

• Tracking Change: Local and Traditional Knowledge in Watershed Governance -- Global Knowledge Symposium UN New York 2019

• Author(s) / Creator(s)

  • Runde, Anne; Hallwass, Gustavo; Silvano, Renato A.M.

• Brazil’s hydroelectricity sector is rapidly expanding. Impacts of dams on fisheries downstream have been overlooked by impact assessments. The objective of this research is to analyse the socio-ecological vulnerability of small-scale fisheries located downstream from the proposed São Luis do
  Tapajos (SLT) dam.

• Date created

  2019-04-01

• Subjects / Keywords

  • São Luis do Tapajos (SLT) dam, hydoelectric development, socio-ecological impacts, fishers' knowledge, imapcts on small-scale fisheries
  • Tapajos River, Amazon River Basin, Brazil

• Type of Item

  Conference/Workshop Poster

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/r3-sgq1-k865

• License

  Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International