hydroelectricity

River Management. Technological Challenge or Conceptual Illusion?
Salmon weirs and hydroelectric dams on the Kemi River in Northern Finland

by Franz Krause

This presentation concerns two types of construction that have been built across the flow of the Kemi River in Finnish Lapland over its eventful history. I will try to compare salmon fishing weirs and hydroelectric dams and explore some of the underlying assumptions about the environment and concomitant relations with the river that distinguish these two types of regulators.