Trans-border public health vulnerability and hydroelectric projects: The case of Yali Falls Dam

The need for energy due to economic and population pressure has resulted in a great expansion of hydroelectric dam projects around the world, especially in Asia. These hydroelectric projects have resulted in considerable environmental, economic, and social damage. Typically, the economic development...

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Published in:Ecological economics 2014-02, Vol.98, p.81-89
Main Authors: Polimeni, John M., Iorgulescu, Raluca I., Chandrasekara, Ray
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Animal, plant and microbial ecology
Applied ecology
Asia
Biological and medical sciences
Cambodia
Damage
Dams
Ecological economics
Economic development
Environment and sustainable development
Environmental change
Environmental degradation
Environmental economics
Environmental health
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Health policy
Households
Hydroelectric dams
Hydroelectric power plants
Medical sciences
Population
Public health
Public health. Hygiene
Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine
Surveys
Vietnam
Villages
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Summary:The need for energy due to economic and population pressure has resulted in a great expansion of hydroelectric dam projects around the world, especially in Asia. These hydroelectric projects have resulted in considerable environmental, economic, and social damage. Typically, the economic development—environmental degradation dynamic has been examined. However, rarely has the economic development, environmental degradation, public health connection been made. This paper, using primary data collected from household surveys, completes the economic, environment, public health circle by examining how economic and environmental changes from the Yali Falls dam in Vietnam has impacted the health of people living in three remote villages in Cambodia.
ISSN:0921-8009
1873-6106
DOI:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2013.12.013