Feeling the heat: responses to geothermal development in Kenya's Rift Valley
Feeling the heat: responses to geothermal development in Kenya's Rift Valley
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感受炎热：肯尼亚大裂谷地热开发的应对措施
DOI：
10.1080/17531055.2020.1716292
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发表时间：
2020
影响因子：
1.4
通讯作者：
Hughes L
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Hughes L
肯尼亚大裂谷的地热开发将为整个国家带来巨大的能源效益。但它对当地社区的影响，在这种情况下，在纳库鲁县的Ol Karia地区，往往是负面的，地热扩张导致了许多分歧和冲突，涉及公平的资源使用，环境退化，对人类和动物的健康影响，强迫重新安置，获得包括就业，住房和利润分享在内的福利，人权和土地权，以及社区代表维斯地热公司的关系。人们对国家和国际金融机构的作用提出了许多问题。在基层，裙带关系、腐败和歧视的指控比比皆是，一些土著居民指责占多数的马赛人在争夺权利和福利时双重边缘化他们。在历史连续性、土地不公正以及全球为原住民和边缘化民族的权利而斗争的背景下，本文探讨了Ol Karia及其周边地区地热开发的冲突和复杂性，并描述了当地人民如何看待未来与其土地上的采掘业和平共处的前景。
Geothermal development in Kenya’s Rift Valley will reap enormous energy benefits for the nation as a whole. But its impacts upon local communities, in this case in the Ol Karia area of Nakuru County, are often negative, and geothermal expansion has led to many divisions and conflicts over equitable resource use, environmental degradation, health impacts on humans and animals, forced resettlement, access to benefits including jobs, houses and profit sharing, human and land rights, and community representation vis-á-vis the geothermal companies. Many questions have been raised about the role of the state and international financial institutions (IFIs). Accusations abound at grassroots level of nepotism, corruption and discrimination, and some indigenous residents accuse the majority Maasai of doubly marginalising them in the scramble for rights and benefits. Against a background of historical continuities, land injustices, and global struggles for indigenous and marginalised peoples’ rights, this article examines the conflicts and complexities surrounding geothermal development at Ol Karia and its environs, and describes how people on the ground see the prospects for future peaceful co-existence with extractive industry on their lands.