Review of and analysis on resettlement induced by hydropower projects in China

DOI

10.2991/iccte-17.2017.118How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Hydropower project; resettlement; policy; inundation loses.

Abstract

For the rapid development of economy, China has seen more than 200 million kW capacity of hydropower plant installed and more than 55 billion m3 reservoir storage formed since 1950s. As a result, over 25 million resettlers have been wholly or partially affected. To displace and settle so many people is by no means a simple task. However, China has made great progress based on researches, studies, experiences and lessons drawn from the past over 60 years. To provide an overview of water resources and hydropower induced resettlement in China, this paper firstly introduces hydropower-induced resettlement briefly, and then examines the development of policies, laws and regulations. Afterwards, hydropower projects in Sichuan are taken as examples to show how inundation loses of hydropower projects develops. Moreover, some problems are posed and relevant suggestions are proposed in order to relocate those people more comfortably.

Copyright

© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

Open Access

This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

Download article (PDF)

TY  - CONF
AU  - Kui Wang
AU  - Huanyong Liu
AU  - Yi Deng
AU  - Jing Chen
PY  - 2017/07
DA  - 2017/07
TI  - Review of and analysis on resettlement induced by hydropower projects in China
BT  - Proceedings of the 2017 2nd International Conference on Civil, Transportation and Environmental Engineering (ICCTE 2017)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 670
EP  - 673
SN  - 2352-5401
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/iccte-17.2017.118
DO  - 10.2991/iccte-17.2017.118
ID  - Wang2017/07
ER  -