Evaluating Monetary-Based Benefit-Sharing as a Mechanism to Improve Local Human Development and its Importance for Impact Assessment of Hydropower Plants in Brazil
Although hydropower companies and governments have promoted monetary-basedBenefit-Sharing Mechanisms alone as a vector of local development for flooded municipalities,it is not possible to identify this evidence in the scientific literature. The presentwork investigates the quantitative influence of Financial Compensation on HumanDevelopment Indexes (HDI) in flooded municipalities over 2000–2010. The econometricanalysis shows that there are no …