Virtavesipolitiikan liikkuminen ja kääntäminen käytännöiksi

Pienten voimalapatojen purkuhankkeet

Authors

• Jarmo Kortelainen Itä-Suomen yliopisto
• Pertti Rannikko Karjalan tutkimuslaitos, Itä-Suomen yliopisto

DOI: https://doi.org/10.37452/politiikka.126197

Keywords:

Hydrosocial context, policy translation, natural resources policy, water policy

Abstract

Virtavesipolitiikka (Water stream policy) is a new Finnish term referring to regulation and governance of streams. The European Union and the Finnish state have designed political tools to restore natural flows and species of water environment, and removal of small hydropower dams has become its important objective. We focus on three removal debates studying how broad political aims take place as practices. Hydrosocial context means actors, material elements and broader relations linked with dam removal debates. With it we examine conditioning and enabling factors of water stream policy and outline a conceptual frame to help research on dam removal policies. The data was gathered from documents, media, and interviews of various stakeholders.