{"id":1913,"date":"2017-06-20T13:49:16","date_gmt":"2017-06-20T16:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amazoniasocioambiental.org\/?p=1913\/"},"modified":"2018-01-26T17:16:42","modified_gmt":"2018-01-26T19:16:42","slug":"damming-the-rivers-of-the-amazon-basin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raisg.org\/en\/radar\/damming-the-rivers-of-the-amazon-basin\/","title":{"rendered":"Damming the rivers of the Amazon basin"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=&#8221;1914&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<p>Edgardo M. Latrubesse, Eugenio Y. Arima, Thomas Dunne, Edward Park, Victor R. Baker, Fernando M. d\u2019Horta,\u00a0Charles Wight, Florian Wittmann, Jansen Zuanon, Paul A. Baker, Camila C. Ribas, Richard B. Norgaard, Naziano Filizola,\u00a0Atif Ansar, Bent Flyvbjerg e Jose C. Stevaux<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: right;\">Nature 546, 363\u2013369\u00a0<time datetime=\"2017-06-14\">(15 June 2017)<\/time><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>More than a hundred hydropower dams have already been built in the Amazon basin and numerous proposals for further dam constructions are under consideration. The accumulated negative environmental effects of existing dams and proposed dams, if constructed, will trigger massive hydrophysical and biotic disturbances that will affect the Amazon basin\u2019s floodplains, estuary and sediment plume. We introduce a Dam Environmental Vulnerability Index to quantify the current and potential impacts of dams in the basin. The scale of foreseeable environmental degradation indicates the need for collective action among nations and states to avoid cumulative, far-reaching impacts. We suggest institutional innovations to assess and avoid the likely impoverishment of Amazon rivers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raisg.org\/damming-the-rivers-of-the-amazon-basin\/2017-dams-amazonia-nature22333\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1929\">Nature &#8211; Damming the rivers of the Amazon basin_2017<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=&#8221;1914&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row] Edgardo M. Latrubesse, Eugenio Y. Arima, Thomas Dunne, Edward Park, Victor R. Baker, Fernando M. d\u2019Horta,\u00a0Charles Wight, Florian Wittmann, Jansen Zuanon, Paul A. Baker, Camila C. Ribas, Richard B. Norgaard, Naziano Filizola,\u00a0Atif Ansar, Bent Flyvbjerg e Jose C. Stevaux Nature 546, 363\u2013369\u00a0(15 June 2017) &nbsp; More than a hundred hydropower dams have&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-radar","category-3","description-off"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisg.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisg.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisg.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisg.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisg.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisg.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisg.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisg.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisg.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}