Public Opinions Towards Hydropower Development and Environmental Protection: Hydropower Stations in the Lancang River Basin

Abstract

This article study aims at providing an effective method for the hydropower development enterprise and the local government to evade risks of offending online public opinion. The environmental effects of hydropower projects along international rivers have attracted the concern of people in many countries. Monitoring the public opinions towards the environmental effects of hydropower projects provides an extremely important way to broaden awareness of hydropower development enterprises and the local government by listening to the interests of the public demands. The data were collected through MetaSeeker. The data were online public opinions, from many sources from 2005 to 2014, using content analysis method in coding and processing the database. This paper showed features, life cycle, range, and perspectives of online public opinions; and, those opinions were depicted into aspects of tendency, popularity, inclination, and intensity.