Research of Eco-Compensation among Basin Cascade Hydropower Station Development and Management

Abstract:

Eco-compensation was involved in many subject area, and the concept and connotation of Eco-compensation were discussed from the multi-disciplinary perspective by the scholars of different research areas. Hydropower, as one kind of green energy,is an important component of the China's energy development. Owing to the delay of the cumulative effect on ecological environment caused by hydropower development, the unbalanced distribution of interests between the cascade hydropower stations, and the mass of industry and departments involved in cascade hydropower development, Eco-compensation system of the cascade hydropower development is becoming more complicated.For this reason, it is significant to analyze the environmental impact during cascade hydropower development, and to establish a full Eco-compensation mechanism for the cascade hydropower development. In this paper, the basic framework of the Eco-compensation system includes five parts: the subject, the object of compensation, compensation standards and methods of determining compensation, forms of compensation, process control of compensation, then the content of these five aspects was detailed. On this basis , the problems which should be solved urgently in the cascade development of Eco-compensation mechanisms have been advised,these discussion and analysis will provide some reference for the further research and practice．

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 580-583)
• Pages: 1864-1869
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.580-583.1864
• Online since: July 2014
• Authors: Xin Min Zhou, Meng Zhao
• Keywords: Cascade Hydropower Stations, Eco-Compensation, Environmental Impact

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