Nations in the Global South have increasingly embraced large hydropower. Hydropower development typically involves the displacement and resettlement of entire communities and has a range of social and ecological impacts. Some communities become the operational center for the dam construction, as well as host new neighborhoods of resettlers. One of the less-studied impacts of dams is the potential loss of social capital both in resettled and host communities. Here, we ask how the Belo Monte dam in the Amazon is associated with social capital in a resettled group and a non-resettled population that, while not experiencing resettlement, nevertheless was impacted by the dam as well. We use measures of cognitive and structural social capital. Results suggest that resettlers have lower structural social capital across two proxy indicators, whereas the host community has lower cognitive social capital. Future research and social impact assessments should pay more attention to how hydropower impacts both kinds of social capital.

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与贝洛蒙特大坝建设相关的社会资本变化：重新安置社区和东道社区的比较

全球南方国家越来越多地接受大型水电。水电开发通常涉及整个社区的迁移和重新安置，并具有一系列社会和生态影响。一些社区成为大坝建设的运营中心，并为新的移民社区提供服务。水坝的研究较少的影响之一是重新安置和收容社区的社会资本的潜在损失。在这里，我们询问亚马逊地区的 Belo Monte 水坝如何与重新安置群体和未重新安置人口的社会资本相关联，这些人口虽然没有经历重新安置，但也受到了水坝的影响。我们使用认知和结构性社会资本的衡量标准。结果表明，移民在两个代理指标上的结构性社会资本较低，而东道社区的认知社会资本较低。未来的研究和社会影响评估应该更多地关注水电如何影响这两种社会资本。