Does carbon finance make a sustainable difference? Hydropower expansion and livelihood trade-offs in the Red River valley, Yunnan Province, China
Does carbon finance make a sustainable difference? Hydropower expansion and livelihood trade-offs in the Red River valley, Yunnan Province, China
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10.1111/sjtg.12176
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2017
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2.2
通讯作者：
J. Rousseau
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作者：
J. Rousseau
《京都议定书》的清洁发展机制（CDM）是一个碳信用交易计划，旨在减少人为温室气体排放，促进“可持续发展”。在中国西南部的云南省，数百座CDM赞助的水电大坝已经建成，碳融资为水电扩张提供了大量的财政激励。本文调查了定居在红河中国段马杜山水电站附近的汉岱沿岸农民是否从该项目参与CDM中获得了积极成果。我评估如何汉岱个人的核心生计资产的访问已被修改后，大坝建成，并探讨如何在云南水电治理的各个利益相关者之间的CDM重新配置标量关系。虽然清洁发展机制促进了水电的扩张，但从当地的角度来看，它未能产生比“一切照旧”更可持续的发展。相反，清洁发展机制巩固水电治理的方式与云南省成为该计划的积极参与者之前的方式相同。清洁发展机制还促进了国家发展运动，在中国西部省份培育特定的社会经济现代化模式。
The Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) is a carbon credit trading scheme intended to reduce anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions and promote ‘sustainable development’. Hundreds of CDM-sponsored hydroelectric dams have been constructed in southwest China's Yunnan Province, where carbon finance contributes substantial financial incentives to hydropower expansion. This article investigates whether riparian Handai farmers settled near the Madushan hydropower plant on the Chinese section of Red River have experienced positive outcomes from this project's participation in the CDM. I assess how Handai individuals' access to core livelihood assets has been modified following dam completion and probe how the CDM reconfigures scalar relations among the various stakeholders involved in hydropower governance in Yunnan. Though the CDM facilitates hydropower expansion, it fails to produce development that is more sustainable than ‘business as usual’ from a local perspective. Rather, the CDM consolidates hydropower governance in the same way as it unfolded in Yunnan before the province became an active participant in this scheme. The CDM also facilitates a national development campaign fostering specific socio-economic modernization patterns in China's western provinces.