DOI: 10.17151/jurid.2020.17.2.10
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Osorio, A. M. ., y Cifuentes, L. . (2020). Title Small hydropower plants (SHP) in the East of the Department of Caldas. “Environmental impacts and social resistances in the post-conflict”. Jurídicas, 17(2), 180–198. https://doi.org/10.17151/jurid.2020.17.2.10

Authors

Alejandra M. Osorio
Universidad de Caldas
alejandram.osorio@ucaldas.edu.co
http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3235-7058
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Laura Cifuentes
Universidad de Caldas
laura.27218229290@ucaldas.edu.co
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7552-0279
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Abstract

The small hydropower plants (SHP) are considered clean and renewable technologies. There is a plan to build forty hydroelectric projects in the eastern part of the Department of Caldas, of which four have an environmental license. The objective of this article is to analyze the environmental impacts related to these projects and to demonstrate the social resistance of the affected communities. The methodology applied was qualitative with an interpretative approach and the data were obtained through field work and secondary sources for four years. It is concluded that hydroelectric projects described as run-of-river are not of low impact because they generate loss of flows and water scarcity, violating the rights of the rural population, factors that result in a revictimization of communities that envision to live in decent conditions in time of post-conflict, not only opposed to these projects but also their actions and demands are oriented to the governance of water in their
territories.

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