The decline of fisheries on the Madeira River, Brazil: The high cost of the hydroelectric dams in the Amazon Basinbiodiversityenvironmental impactfish faunafishing colonyfluviometryimpoundmentsDespite being considered beneficial by providing a clean and renewable source of energy, the construction of ...
In order to increase the energy demand to attract new investment to the country, the Brazilian government plans to build at least 20 new hydroelectric plants in the Amazon basin. Being a region of high biological value that provides important environmental services to the country, the damage from...
In this paper, an ant colony system (ACS)-based optimization approach is proposed for the enhancement of hydroelectric generation scheduling. To apply the ... SJ Huang - 《IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion》 被引量: 333发表: 2001年 Dams in the Amazon: Belo Monte and Brazil's Hydroelect...
Besides the richness of its rivers, the Amazon is rich in biological diversity, possessing a forest with a significant density of organic matter that continuously cycles through the various compartments of this biome. Therefore, it is expected that hydropower plants built in this region, because of...
Dams in the Amazon: Belo Monte and Brazil's Hydroelectric Development of the Xingu River Basin Hydroelectric dams represent major investments and major sources of environmental and social impacts. Powerful forces surround the decision-making process ... PHILIP M. FEARNSIDE - 《Environmental Management...
We found evidence suggesting downstream migration of juvenile fish past dams into the Amazon estuary and that some of them home back to the Madeira. However, we did not find evidence that the fish homing back from the estuary can access their breeding grounds in the upper Madeira; they remain...
Location The Brazilian Amazon. Methods We overlapped the geographic distribution of 255 species with the location of hydroelectric dams, models of deforestation and climate change scenarios for the future. Results We found that nearly 67% of all species and 54% of species with high degree of ...
11. Colbún, in association with Spain's Endesa, is promoting a $2.4 billion project to build four hydroelectric dams, with a total capacity of 2, 430MW, in the Aysén region in the far south where rainfall is abundant. 智利的科尔本电力公司联合了西班牙的恩得砂电力运输公司正在共同创立一个24...
Underwater: The impacts of the Madeira river dams in Bolivia The Madeira River complex is one of the two largest projects of the Brazilian development strategy for the Amazon region. It Includes the implementation of... JM Carpio,A Matias,E Mamani,... - Bajo el caudal: El impacto de las...
Fearnside PM (2006a) Greenhouse gas emissions from hydroelectric dams: reply to Rosa et al. Climatic Change 75(1–2):103–109. doi:10.1007/s10584-005-9016-z Article Google Scholar Fearnside PM (2006b) Dams in the Amazon: Belo Monte and Brazil’s Hydroelectric Development of the Xingu ...