INFEWS/T3: Rethinking Dams: Innovative hydropower solutions to achieve sustainable food and energy production, and sustainable communities

INFEWS/T3：重新思考水坝：实现可持续粮食和能源生产以及可持续社区的创新水电解决方​​案

• 批准号: 1639115
• 负责人: Emilio Moran
• 金额: $ 261.85万
• 依托单位: Michigan State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-01-01 至 2022-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1639115&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: INFEWS; T3; Rethinking; Dams; Innovative

1639115Emilio F. MoranHydropower dams have been an important part of worldwide energy production, but they also have resulted in substantial negative environmental and social outcomes. This project will study a new way to think about hydropower, one that looks not just at energy production as the goal, but as an integrated system that can generate ecological, economic, and societal benefits beyond electricity. The study will model scenarios to assess how hydropower technologies can be deployed in new ways, such as through enhancing production of food by applying river sediments on cropland as fertilizer, or by changing hydropower technology toward smaller dams and in-stream turbines to reduce negative outcomes on river ecology and fish productivity. Along with the training of students and postdocs, a web-based decision support system will be developed to inform stakeholders about alternative hydropower designs and locations, offer options to increase benefits to stakeholders, and serve as a lasting legacy for policy makers, scientists, and local institutions in managing their food, water and energy resources. The scenarios for redesigned hydropower will potentially transform how hydropower is viewed, replacing a top-down approach that mandates a single-minded focus on maximizing energy production with a bottom-up approach informed by the complexity interlinking the food, energy, and water systems. The project will generate innovative solutions that will improve the acceptability of hydropower development in the US, Europe, and across the world.An estimated 3,700 major dams are currently either planned or under construction worldwide, and they will continue to play significant roles in energy production in the foreseeable future. This study's goal is to develop innovative solutions for hydropower-- not just to produce energy for the national grid, but woven into the surrounding food, water, and institutional systems. The team includes hydroengineers, hydrogeologists, climatologists, biologists and social scientists working in tandem to offer transformative solutions for hydropower development while ensuring that social and environmental benefits outweigh costs. The research teams will assess land cover change to understand deforestation risk in and around dams, and identify agricultural areas that can benefit from sediment application. Coupled hydrological and climate models, linked to land cover changes in different landscape and socio-ecological settings, including international collaborations, will identify better hydropower solutions including ways to move sediments to farms and/or locations for in-stream turbines. Institutional and governance analysis will examine the multi-tiered dimensions that intrude upon the way civil society benefits from hydropower. The project will generate innovative solutions to produce renewable energy from hydropower, increase food production, and lessen negative environmental and social impacts that have reduced the acceptability of hydropower development, in the US, Europe and across the world.

1639115 Emilio F. Moranydropower大坝一直是全球能源生产的重要组成部分，但它们也导致了大量的负面环境和社会成果。该项目将研究一种考虑水力发电的新方法，它不仅将能源生产作为目标，而且是一种可以产生生态，经济和社会利益的综合系统，而不是电力。这项研究将模拟场景，以评估如何通过新的方式部署水力发电技术，例如通过将河流沉积物作为肥料应用于肥料，或通过将水力发电技术涂在较小的水坝和较小的水坝和河流涡轮机上来减少河流生态和鱼生产率的负面结果，从而增强食物的生产。除了对学生和博士后的培训外，将开发基于网络的决策支持系统，以告知利益相关者有关替代水力发电设计和位置，为利益相关者提供福利的选择，并为政策制定者，科学家和当地机构提供持久的遗产，以管理他们的食品，水，水，水，水，水，水和能源。重新设计的水力发电的方案将有可能改变水力发电的观看方式，取代自上而下的方法，该方法强调了一心一意地专注于通过与食物，能量和水系统相互联系的自下而上的方法来最大程度地提高能源生产的方法。该项目将产生创新的解决方案，以改善美国，欧洲和世界各地的水力发电开发的可接受性。目前正在计划或在全球范围内建设3,700个大型水坝，在可预见的未来，它们将继续在能源生产中发挥重要作用。这项研究的目标是为水电开发创新的解决方案，而不仅仅是为国家电网生产能量，还为周围的食物，水和机构系统编织而成。该团队包括水力工学家，水理学家，气候学家，生物学家和社会科学家，在同时工作，为水电开发提供了变革性的解决方案，同时确保社会和环境的利益超过成本。研究团队将评估土地覆盖的变化，以了解大坝及其周围周围的森林砍伐风险，并确定可以从沉积物应用中受益的农业区域。耦合的水文和气候模型与包括国际合作在内的不同景观和社会生态环境的土地覆盖变化相关，将确定更好的水力发电解决方案，包括将沉积物转移到农场和/或以上涡轮机的位置的方法。机构和治理分析将研究侵入民间社会从水电中受益的方式的多层维度。该项目将产生创新的解决方案，以从水力发电上产生可再生能源，增加粮食生产，并减少负面的环境和社会影响，从而降低了美国，欧洲以及世界各地的水电发展的可接受性。

项目成果

Floodplain land cover affects biomass distribution of fish functional diversity in the Amazon River

• DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-52243-0
• 发表时间: 2019-11-13
• 期刊: SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
• 影响因子: 4.6
• 作者: Arantes, Caroline C.;Winemiller, Kirk O.;Freitas, Carlos E. C.
• 通讯作者: Freitas, Carlos E. C.

Relationships between forest cover and fish diversity in the Amazon River floodplain

• DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.12967
• 发表时间: 2018-01-01
• 期刊: JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY
• 影响因子: 5.7
• 作者: Arantes, Caroline C.;Winemiller, Kirk O.;Freitas, Carlos E. C.
• 通讯作者: Freitas, Carlos E. C.

Hydropower, Social Capital, Community Impacts, and Self‐Rated Health in the Amazon*

• DOI: 10.1111/ruso.12419
• 发表时间: 2021-11
• 期刊: Rural Sociology
• 影响因子: 2.3
• 作者: Adam Mayer;M. Lopez;Igor Cavallini Johansen;E. Moran

Are large-scale hydroelectric dams inherently undemocratic?

• DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2021.102395
• 发表时间: 2021-11-04
• 期刊: GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS
• 影响因子: 8.9
• 作者: Garcia, Maria Alejandra;Castro-Diaz, Laura;Lopez, Maria Claudia
• 通讯作者: Lopez, Maria Claudia

In-stream turbines for rethinking hydropower development in the Amazon basin

• DOI: 10.1038/s41893-021-00712-8
• 发表时间: 2021-04-22
• 期刊: NATURE SUSTAINABILITY
• 影响因子: 27.6
• 作者: Chaudhari, Suyog;Brown, Erik;Pokhrel, Yadu
• 通讯作者: Pokhrel, Yadu