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6 Μαΐ 2023 · While the Itaipu hydroelectric dam offers incredible environmental benefits, providing energy for the southwest region of Brazil and the entirety of Paraguay, the subsequent flooding from the dam displaced local farmers, landless peasants, and 38 Avá-Guaraní Indigenous communities (Blanc, 2019).
17 Σεπ 2021 · This article provides a comparative environmental assessment for the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) learning from Itaipu dam experience. The article gives a full insight about the potential political and technical concerns that may affect the downstream countries as a result of the construction of GERD and proposed a solution and way ...
• To ensure the resilience of the dam, Itaipú Binacional has planted over 44 million trees in the company-owned area around the dam, reforesting, restoring and conserving 101,000 ha of land and 421 micro-watersheds. • The hydropower plant produces 90% of Paraguay’s electricity, and 16% of Brazil’s. The forests
30 Δεκ 2010 · Abstract. This paper describes the circumstances that lead to the construction of the Itaipú hydroelectric facility and the creation of a bi-national entity to manage its construction and operation. We drawn on the standards suggested by the World Commission on Dams (2000) to assess the impact of the construction and operation of Itaipú on ...
The positive environmental impacts highlighted by Itaipu Binacional and the Brazilian and Paraguayan governments may not adequately justify the negative environmental and social impacts of building the Itaipu hydroelectric dam in an area populated by vulnerable Indigenous and rural communities.
ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL ISSUES At the time the Itaipu Hydroelectric Dam was built, hydroelectric power was already a common source of energy in Brazil. Indeed, water is an abundant resource of which the country wanted to take advantage. The decision in 1973 to develop the dam was also informed by the oil crisis at the time, which made
higher standard of transparency, accountability, and environmental compliance than developed country governments were when their megaprojects were built. This paper will examine the impact of the Itaipú project in light of this new thinking on dams some 35 years after construction began. It is an interesting project
