Christopher Sneddon
Biographic Data
| ID | 150991 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher Sneddon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher |
| FAMILY NAME | Sneddon |
| SIGNATURE | SNEDDON C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Dartmouth College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7873-9951 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The making of a hydrofrontier: Geopolitics, securitization and ‘green’ energy imaginaries in India's eastern borderlands
In recent years, frontier thinking has mushroomed across a range of environmental social sciences seeking to understand the ongoing exploitation of regions identified as politically, economically, and culturally marginal. Scholars emphasize that frontiers are the products of both geographical imaginations and material forces of extraction and exploitation with often dire consequences for the regions' inhabitants. Despite decades of academic work …
What Makes a Megaproject
This article reviews how global hydropower assemblages catalyze socioecological change in the world's rivers. As a quintessential megaproject, massive dams and the hydropower they generate have long captivated the modernist development imaginary. Yet, despite growing recognition of the socio-ecological consequences of hydropower, it has recently assumed a central role in supporting renewable energy transitions. We highlight three trends in hydrop…
Concrete Revolution: Large Dams, Cold War Geopolitics, and the US Bureau of Reclamation
River restoration by dam removal: Enhancing connectivity at watershed scales
The prolonged history of industrialization, flood control, and hydropower production has led to the construction of 80,000 dams across the U.S. generating significant hydrologic, ecological, and social adjustments. With the increased ecological attention on re-establishing riverine connectivity, dam removal is becoming an important part of large-scale river restoration nationally, especially in New England, due to its early European settlement an…
You kill the dam, you are killing a part of me”: Dam removal and the environmental politics of river restoration
Concrete Revolution: Large Dams, Cold War Geopolitics, and the US Bureau of Reclamation
Inland Capture Fisheries and Large River Systems: A Political Economy of Mekong Fisheries
This paper examines the political economy of the freshwater, inland fisheries in the Mekong River basin, which are among the most productive and diverse in the world. Yet the remarkably productive fisheries of the basin, and the livelihoods of rural people this production supports, are increasingly confronting a series of threats related to hydropower development and other socio-ecological processes. These threats are in turn driven by long-stand…
Sustainability’ in ecological economics, ecology and livelihoods: A review
This article reviews the work of several sets of researchers prominent in current debates over how sustainability might be interpreted and achieved. The notion of ‘sustainable development’ has reached a conceptual dead-end. Geographers may offer more effective investigations and critiques of socioecological transformations by instead focusing on ‘sustainability’ and its application to multiple dimensions of human and nonhuman processes. Such a mo…
You kill the dam, you are killing a part of me”: Dam removal and the environmental politics of river restoration
Inland Capture Fisheries and Large River Systems: A Political Economy of Mekong Fisheries
This paper examines the political economy of the freshwater, inland fisheries in the Mekong River basin, which are among the most productive and diverse in the world. Yet the remarkably productive fisheries of the basin, and the livelihoods of rural people this production supports, are increasingly confronting a series of threats related to hydropower development and other socio-ecological processes. These threats are in turn driven by long-stand…
What Makes a Megaproject
This article reviews how global hydropower assemblages catalyze socioecological change in the world's rivers. As a quintessential megaproject, massive dams and the hydropower they generate have long captivated the modernist development imaginary. Yet, despite growing recognition of the socio-ecological consequences of hydropower, it has recently assumed a central role in supporting renewable energy transitions. We highlight three trends in hydrop…
Sustainability’ in ecological economics, ecology and livelihoods: A review
This article reviews the work of several sets of researchers prominent in current debates over how sustainability might be interpreted and achieved. The notion of ‘sustainable development’ has reached a conceptual dead-end. Geographers may offer more effective investigations and critiques of socioecological transformations by instead focusing on ‘sustainability’ and its application to multiple dimensions of human and nonhuman processes. Such a mo…
Inland Capture Fisheries and Large River Systems: A Political Economy of Mekong Fisheries
This paper examines the political economy of the freshwater, inland fisheries in the Mekong River basin, which are among the most productive and diverse in the world. Yet the remarkably productive fisheries of the basin, and the livelihoods of rural people this production supports, are increasingly confronting a series of threats related to hydropower development and other socio-ecological processes. These threats are in turn driven by long-stand…
Concrete Revolution: Large Dams, Cold War Geopolitics, and the US Bureau of Reclamation
River restoration by dam removal: Enhancing connectivity at watershed scales
The prolonged history of industrialization, flood control, and hydropower production has led to the construction of 80,000 dams across the U.S. generating significant hydrologic, ecological, and social adjustments. With the increased ecological attention on re-establishing riverine connectivity, dam removal is becoming an important part of large-scale river restoration nationally, especially in New England, due to its early European settlement an…
You kill the dam, you are killing a part of me”: Dam removal and the environmental politics of river restoration
Concrete Revolution: Large Dams, Cold War Geopolitics, and the US Bureau of Reclamation
What Makes a Megaproject
This article reviews how global hydropower assemblages catalyze socioecological change in the world's rivers. As a quintessential megaproject, massive dams and the hydropower they generate have long captivated the modernist development imaginary. Yet, despite growing recognition of the socio-ecological consequences of hydropower, it has recently assumed a central role in supporting renewable energy transitions. We highlight three trends in hydrop…
The making of a hydrofrontier: Geopolitics, securitization and ‘green’ energy imaginaries in India's eastern borderlands
In recent years, frontier thinking has mushroomed across a range of environmental social sciences seeking to understand the ongoing exploitation of regions identified as politically, economically, and culturally marginal. Scholars emphasize that frontiers are the products of both geographical imaginations and material forces of extraction and exploitation with often dire consequences for the regions' inhabitants. Despite decades of academic work …
Political science (5 works) · Ecology (4 works) · Engineering (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Transboundary Water Resource Management (4 works) · Water Governance and Infrastructure (4 works) · Environmental Science (3 works) · Hydropower (3 works) · Hydropower, Displacement, Environmental Impact (3 works)