Indigenous perspectives in Norway | Nature Energy

Small hydropower plants have the potential to serve small and remote communities with fewer negative environmental impacts than large hydropower plants. However, despite increasing recognition that local communities should have a say in their establishment, few studies have accounted for Indigenous peoples’ perspectives on small hydropower plant development. Now, Sigrid Engen and colleagues from the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research and the Arctic University of Norway (the Centre for Sámi Studies and the Arctic Sustainability Lab) assess Indigenous peoples’ opposition to, and…