Engineering Reality The Politics of Environmental Impact Assessments and the Just Energy Transition in Colombia [#933111]

Free Download Cornelia Helmcke, "Engineering Reality: The Politics of Environmental Impact Assessments and the Just Energy Transition in Colombia"
English | ISBN: 3031406427 | 2023 | 307 pages | EPUB | 10 MB
Engineering Reality offers unprecedented insights into the power of environmental impact assessments in engineering a reality favourable to any investment, focusing on the highly contested environmental study of a large hydroelectric dam project in southern Colombia, El Quimbo. The inclusion of environmental impact assessments to project proposals of environmental influence has been an undeniably important step to environmental governance in many countries around the world. Regarding the science behind these studies as objective and their results as the closest in representing reality, however, is misleading. Many activists and scholars made it their mission to uncover the limitations and work towards filling the gaps. Participation processes are considered key to any successful evaluation, but local knowledges and alternative perspectives are still often disqualified through more widely accepted scientific methods.