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Table 2 Pre-established categories

From: Good living of communities and sustainability of the hydropower business: mapping an operational framework for benefit sharing

Category

Subcategory

Code

Corporation

Project

Hydropower or hydroelectricity projects refers to the conversion of energy from flowing water into electricity [74]

Usual Project

Share Value project

Sustainability

Corporate activities that proactively seek to contribute to sustainability equilibria, including the economic, environmental, and social dimensions of today, as well as their inter-relations within and throughout the time dimension (i.e. the short-, long-, and longer-term), while addressing the company’s systems, i.e. operations and production, management and strategy, organizational systems, procurement and marketing, and assessment and communication; as well as with its stakeholders [72]

Economic

Environmental

Social

Economic-society

Economic-environment

Society-environment

Government

The combination of processes and structures that inform, direct, manage and monitor the activities of the project toward the achievement of its objectives [12]

Corporate governance

External Governance

Society

Livelihood

Refers to the capabilities, assets [stores, resources, claims and access] and activities required for a means of living [12]

Improvement of livelihoods

Economic displacement

Measures to address project

Opportunities for project-affected communities

Interrelationships

Climate change

Analysis and management of the risks of climate change for the project, and the project’s role in climate change adaptation[12]

Environmental and social risks

Environmental and social opportunities

Land

Analysis of land use change with hydroelectric project

Access to Land Use

Land rehabilitation

Ecosystem

This topic addresses ecosystem values, habitat and specific issues such as threatened species, reservoir and downstream areas, as well as potential impacts associated with the operating hydropower facility[12]

Biodiversity issues

Measures to address impacts on biodiversity

Biodiversity opportunities

Stakeholders

Who are interested in, involved in or affected by the hydropower project and associated activities [12]

Mapping

Needs

Negotiation

Participation

Share benefit

Causes of Conflict

The Corporations are perceived to be responsible for many negative impacts on the environment and on societies [72]

Environmental

Social

Economic

Actions/outputs

People and organizations collaborate across boundaries to get something done [50]

Non-monetary mechanisms

Monetary mechanisms

Satisfaction

Collaborative actions or outputs are taken in the hopes of producing desired outcomes, or results on the ground. These intermediate and end outcomes are essentially alterations in an existing or projected condition that is viewed as undesirable or in need of change [73]

Effectiveness of outcomes

legitimacy of outcomes

Adaptation