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A Normative-Institutional to Water-Energy Nexus: A Case Analysis of Brazil
The multiple targets contained in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) often crosscut and refer to more than one SDG, suggesting the need to consider the potential for synergies and trade-offs. Different targets are interlinked positively or negatively, supported by empirical evidence. The close relationship between water, electricity and sustainable development has been on the international political radar for some time. The lack of integrated planning, policies and objectives between sectors disputing common-pool resources has long been a major obstacle to sustainability. The literature on water-energy nexus highlights the need for co-management across these sectors, whereby joint planning and solutions under better integrated governance of resources could make action more efficient and cost-effective to advance the SDGs. Brazil has been chosen as a case study, because its electricity sector depends on water to keep affordable tariffs, which in turn serves as input to important electricity intensive sectors (water). Hydrological factors (droughts) and non-hydrological factors (e.g. chronic delays in delivery of new plants) have impacted on water availability, which led to constraints for hydro power generation. Electricity prices have risen, while water quantity and quality have plunged, affecting multiple users and ecological integrity. All of which impact negatively on livelihoods and water services and sanitation, with electricity representing the fastest growing costs for the latter. Most of the existing work has favoured integration of water and electricity sectors based on quantitative approach to address the interlinkages between them and tackle trade-offs. However, from a legal perspective, very little is known about how these sectors should be integrated in practice. The novel combination of qualitative research methods based on metrics, historical-institutional analysis, questionnaire and interviews served as instruments for the assessment of the water-electricity nexus issues and development of ...
A Normative-Institutional to Water-Energy Nexus: A Case Analysis of Brazil
The multiple targets contained in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) often crosscut and refer to more than one SDG, suggesting the need to consider the potential for synergies and trade-offs. Different targets are interlinked positively or negatively, supported by empirical evidence. The close relationship between water, electricity and sustainable development has been on the international political radar for some time. The lack of integrated planning, policies and objectives between sectors disputing common-pool resources has long been a major obstacle to sustainability. The literature on water-energy nexus highlights the need for co-management across these sectors, whereby joint planning and solutions under better integrated governance of resources could make action more efficient and cost-effective to advance the SDGs. Brazil has been chosen as a case study, because its electricity sector depends on water to keep affordable tariffs, which in turn serves as input to important electricity intensive sectors (water). Hydrological factors (droughts) and non-hydrological factors (e.g. chronic delays in delivery of new plants) have impacted on water availability, which led to constraints for hydro power generation. Electricity prices have risen, while water quantity and quality have plunged, affecting multiple users and ecological integrity. All of which impact negatively on livelihoods and water services and sanitation, with electricity representing the fastest growing costs for the latter. Most of the existing work has favoured integration of water and electricity sectors based on quantitative approach to address the interlinkages between them and tackle trade-offs. However, from a legal perspective, very little is known about how these sectors should be integrated in practice. The novel combination of qualitative research methods based on metrics, historical-institutional analysis, questionnaire and interviews served as instruments for the assessment of the water-electricity nexus issues and development of ...
A Normative-Institutional to Water-Energy Nexus: A Case Analysis of Brazil
2021-04-28
Doctoral thesis, UCL (University College London).
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