China goes global: A comparative study of Chinese hydropower dams in Africa and Asia

中国走向世界：中国在非洲和亚洲水电大坝的比较研究

基本信息

批准号：
ES/J01320X/1
负责人：
Frauke Urban
金额：
$ 75.86万
依托单位：
School of Oriental and African Studies
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2012
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2012 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FJ01320X%2F1
关键词：
China goes global comparative study

项目摘要

China's rapid economic growth has created a series of pressures which has forced the country to engage more closely with a number of low and middle income countries. First, China's growth has depleted scarce domestic resources and so part of its 'Going Out Strategy' encourages overseas investment to access natural resources such as energy and minerals. Secondly, as some sectors of the Chinese market become relatively saturated large state-owned enterprises aim to internationalise and acquire new markets. Thirdly, China's rapid technological advances -such as in energy and information technology- have made it possible to expand overseas. These three drivers - resource access, new markets, technological advances - come together in the hydropower sector where China is the pre-eminent global player in major dam projects usually supported by Chinese state finance. The aim of the proposed project is to provide the first systematic and comparative analysis of the social, economic, environmental and political impacts of Chinese dam projects in low and middle income countries that will inform corporate behaviour in the UK and China and shape emerging national and international policy responses. The project will involve detailed empirical research in Ghana, Nigeria, Cambodia and Malaysia, which represent different facets of China's hydropower in the global South.This research aims to address four key issues: (a) Coordination of Chinese investment strategies vis-à-vis low and middle income countries; (b) impacts on local social and environmental conditions in recipient countries; (c) effects on local and regional governance; and (d) implications for both UK firms and OECD aid programmes.To address these key issues we adopt an interdisciplinary, multi-method approach which reflects the international scope of these complex interconnections. We will conduct 4 case studies in Africa and Asia where Chinese hydropower activity is most intense. The selected case study sites are the Kamchay Dam in Cambodia, the Bakun Dam in Malaysia (Borneo), the Bui Dam in Ghana, and the Zamfara Dam in Nigeria.We will conduct a wide range of in-depths interviews with Chinese firms, financiers, policy-makers, African/Asian policy-makers, Asian/African communities, NGOs, UK firms and international aid organisations and evaluate project documentation, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) strategies and firm strategies. The expected outcomes will be (a) the first systematic study of Chinese hydropower projects as part of a wider concern with China's growing role in the developing world and its implications for UK firms and OECD donors; (b) a truly inter-disciplinary theoretical and methodological approach which combines human geography, development studies, environmental sciences, and politics; and (c) the generation of new theory in the area of critical development studies and political ecology, particularly around the implications of 'South-South' relations of resource control.

中国经济的快速增长带来了一系列压力，迫使中国与一些低收入和中等收入国家更加密切地接触。首先，中国的增长耗尽了国内稀缺资源，因此其“走出去”战略鼓励海外发展。其次，随着中国市场的某些领域变得相对饱和，大型国有企业开始寻求国际化并获取新市场。第三，中国在能源和信息技术等领域的快速技术进步。 -已经做了资源获取、新市场、技术进步这三个驱动因素在水电领域汇聚在一起，而中国是全球主要水坝项目的主要参与者，这些项目通常由中国国家财政支持。该项目旨在对中国大坝项目在低收入和中等收入国家的社会、经济、环境和政治影响进行首次系统性比较分析，为英国和中国的企业行为提供信息，并形成新兴的国家和国际政策应对措施。该项目将涉及加纳、尼日利亚、柬埔寨和马来西亚，代表了中国水电在全球南方的不同方面。本研究旨在解决四个关键问题：(a) 中国对低收入和中等收入国家的投资战略的协调；(b) 对当地社会和经济的影响；受援国的环境条件；(c) 对地方和区域治理的影响；(d) 对英国公司和经合组织援助计划的影响。为了解决这些关键问题，我们采用了反映国际范围的跨学科、多方法方法。这些复杂的相互联系。我们将在中国水电活动最密集的非洲和亚洲进行4个案例研究，选定的案例研究地点是柬埔寨的Kamchay大坝、马来西亚（婆罗洲）的Bakun大坝、加纳的Bui大坝和赞法拉大坝。尼日利亚。我们将对中国企业、金融家、政策制定者、非洲/亚洲政策制定者、亚非社区、非政府组织、英国企业和国际援助组织进行广泛的深度访谈，并对项目进行评估预期成果将是：(a) 对中国水电项目进行首次系统研究，作为对中国在世界上日益增长的作用及其对发展中英国企业和影响的更广泛关注的一部分。经合组织捐助者；（b）真正的跨学科理论和方法论，结合了人文地理学、发展研究、环境科学和政治学；以及（c）批判性发展研究和政治生态学领域的新理论的产生；，特别是围绕以下的影响资源控制的“南南”关系。