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Debating dams: The World Commission on Dams 20 years on [PDF]
Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water, 2019 AbstractThe World Commission on Dams (WCD) was a global environmental governance forum that worked between 1998 and 2000 to try to resolve long‐standing controversies between supporters and opponents of large dams. Its objectives were to assess the development effectiveness of large dams and to develop best practice guidelines for large dam ...
Christopher Schulz
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Addressing conflict over dams: The inception and establishment of the World Commission on Dams
Water History, 2022 AbstractThe World Commission on Dams (WCD) was active between 1998 and 2000. Despite the Commission’s short life, it left a lasting mark on the global debate on large dams, one of the most intractable and conflicted issues in environmental governance.
Christopher Schulz, Adams William M
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The Politics of Environmental Consensus: The Case of the World Commission on Dams
Global Environmental Politics, 2023 Abstract Recent discussion of global environmental assessment processes suggests that the process of consensus creation is central to understanding the way knowledge is produced and conclusions are reached. Here we contribute to this literature by providing a case study of the World Commission on Dams, which brought together supporters ...
Christopher Schulz, Adams William M
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Viewpoint – The World Bank Versus the World Commission on Dams
Water Alternatives, 2010 The World Bank Group (WBG) has long resisted guidelines from reformers and the World Commission on Dams (WCD) requiring large dam projects to internalise the social and environmental costs of dam construction. Despite some progress, the Bank continues to
Robert Goodland
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The Dam Industry, the World Commission on Dams and the HSAF Process
Water Alternatives, 2010 Most actors of the global dam industry primarily operate within their national borders, and are either controlled by or do most of their business with the state.
Peter Bosshard
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The World Commission on Dams + 10: Revisiting the Large Dam Controversy
Water Alternatives, 2010 The World Commission on Dams (WCD) was an experiment in multi-stakeholder dialogue and global governance concerned with a subject area – large dams – that was fraught with conflict and controversy.
Deborah Moore, John Dore, Dipak Gyawali
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Water Alternatives, 2010 The World Commission on Dams (WCD) helped establish as development best practice the requirement to respect the right of indigenous peoples to give or withhold their 'free, prior and informed consent' (FPIC) to development projects that will affect them.
Joji Cariño, Marcus Colchester
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Water Alternatives, 2010 The guidelines proposed in the World Commission on Dams (WCD) final report were vehemently rejected by several Asian governments, and dam building has continued apace in most Asian countries. This reaction is in line with the simplistic dam debate, where
Ravi Baghel, Marcus Nüsser
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Gaining Public Acceptance: A Critical Strategic Priority of the World Commission on Dams
Water Alternatives, 2010 Gaining Public Acceptance (GPA) was a strategic priority recommended in the final report of the World Commission on Dams (WCD). GPA remains a central, thorny challenge for all parties interested in how society makes decisions about the development of ...
John Dore, Louis Lebel
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Water Alternatives, 2010 The World Commission on Dams (WCD) has called for developers, governments, civil society, etc. to use its Strategic Priorities as a starting point for dialogue and initiatives to address issues regarding the development of dams.
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