TY - JOUR
T1 - Sustainability and Governance Regimes in Hydropower Territories
T2 - Multiple-Case Study in Colombia
AU - Polanco, Jorge Andrés
AU - Suárez-Gómez, Juan D.
AU - Escobar-Sierra, Manuela
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 American Society of Civil Engineers.
PY - 2023/11/1
Y1 - 2023/11/1
N2 - Intense disputes between companies and the local population have led to new governance regimes, raising concerns about the hydropower business's sustainability, social instability, and violence in emerging economies. New approaches to these issues must go beyond a critical view to be more adaptative and result oriented. This paper explores how the hydropower business's sustainability influences governance regimes on the territory. A cross-case study is applied in the Samaná River basin in the Colombian Andes through a qualitative-quantitative mixed methodology to generate a grounded theory of sustainability and governance in hydropower territories. A qualitative approach was used to produce a framework about territorial factors based on 45 in-depth interviews. The quantitative approach was used as a machine-learning data compression and prediction method. It served as an additional test to extend and reshape the prediction power of the coding. The results suggested three territorial factors of hydropower business as drivers of governance regimes: (1) context variation, (2) the spatial configuration of governance, and (3) the importance of long-term stakeholder interactions. Implications of findings involve addressing power asymmetries and adapting the collaborative dynamics to the territory. This analysis validated a previous interpretative model and proposed sustainability and governance patterns useful in similar hydropower territories in emerging countries.
AB - Intense disputes between companies and the local population have led to new governance regimes, raising concerns about the hydropower business's sustainability, social instability, and violence in emerging economies. New approaches to these issues must go beyond a critical view to be more adaptative and result oriented. This paper explores how the hydropower business's sustainability influences governance regimes on the territory. A cross-case study is applied in the Samaná River basin in the Colombian Andes through a qualitative-quantitative mixed methodology to generate a grounded theory of sustainability and governance in hydropower territories. A qualitative approach was used to produce a framework about territorial factors based on 45 in-depth interviews. The quantitative approach was used as a machine-learning data compression and prediction method. It served as an additional test to extend and reshape the prediction power of the coding. The results suggested three territorial factors of hydropower business as drivers of governance regimes: (1) context variation, (2) the spatial configuration of governance, and (3) the importance of long-term stakeholder interactions. Implications of findings involve addressing power asymmetries and adapting the collaborative dynamics to the territory. This analysis validated a previous interpretative model and proposed sustainability and governance patterns useful in similar hydropower territories in emerging countries.
KW - Corporate sustainability
KW - Emerging economies
KW - Governance regimes
KW - Grounded theory
KW - Hydropower territories
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85172184754&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1061/JWRMD5.WRENG-6083
DO - 10.1061/JWRMD5.WRENG-6083
M3 - Artículo
AN - SCOPUS:85172184754
SN - 0733-9496
VL - 149
JO - Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management
JF - Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management
IS - 11
M1 - 05023014
ER -