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Comparing Two Models of Transition from Inpatient Rehabilitation Following Traumatic Brain Injury: A Pragmatic Comparative Effectiveness Trial. [PDF]

open access: yesJ Neurotrauma
Hoffman JM   +15 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Lessons learned from the World Commission on Dams

open access: yesInternational Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics, 2009
The World Commission on Dams was an independent international body created under initiatives of the World Bank and the World Conservation Union in order to address environmental and social impacts of large dams. It published its final report in November 2000 after 2.5 years of extensive studies, public hearings, and discussions.
Ryo Fujikura, Mikiyasu Nakayama
exaly   +3 more sources

Dams and development – an insight to the report of the World Commission on Dams1

Irrigation and Drainage, 2001
AbstractThe World Commission on Dams was initiated as a new form of global policy making to find a way beyond the intensifying conflicts over dam projects. It was established by diverse groups to conduct an independent global review of the performance and impacts of large dams and develop internationally acceptable criteria and guidelines for the ...
Jeremy Bird
exaly   +2 more sources

The World Commission on Dams and the Need for a New Development Paradigm

International Journal of Water Resources Development, 2001
Responding to the unanimous recommendation of a multi-stakeholder workshop, the creation of the World Commission on Dams (WCD) was formally announced in February 1998.
Thayer Scudder
exaly   +2 more sources

Struggles Over Dams as Struggles for Justice: The World Commission on Dams (WCD) and Anti-Dam Campaigns in Thailand and Mozambique

Society and Natural Resources, 2008
Publication of the World Commissions on Dams (WCD) final report in November 2000 prompted a series of divergent responses. The global anti-dam movement applauded the report's call for fastidious screening of large dam projects and increased levels of transparency and participation in dam-related decisions, while the dam industry argued the document was
Coleen Fox, Chris Sneddon
exaly   +2 more sources

German Development Cooperation and the World Commission on Dams

2014
More than 10 years after the German government welcomed the recommendations of the World Commission on Dams (WCD) and made them the yardstick for all dam-related activities in its development cooperation, this article reviews how those recommendations were integrated into German development cooperation and what mechanisms were used to promote their ...
Kirsten Nyman   +2 more
exaly   +2 more sources

Towards Implementation of the World Commission on Dams Recommendations

2008
From 1998 to 2000, the multi-stakeholder World Commission on Dams (WCD) developed recommendations on improved planning procedures to overcome continuous debates and conflicts on large dams. The publication of the WCD report met a mixed response. Most stakeholders agreed to the underlying values of the WCD recommendations, but criticized the planning ...
Michael Fink, Anne Cramer
exaly   +2 more sources

Comparing recommendations from the World Commission on Dams and the IEA initiative on hydropower

Energy Policy, 2002
Abstract During the 1996–2000 period, two parallel international initiatives had the aim of improving the planning, design, and operations of large dams. One was under the auspices of the International Energy Agency and the other was the World Commission on Dams. Both produced recommendations for future development. Many of these recommendations were
Luc Gagnon   +2 more
exaly   +2 more sources

The World Commission on Dams

2007
Despite its short-lived existence, the World Commission on Dams (WCD) has become a reference point for scholars and practitioners alike. Proponents of public-private partnerships praise it as a model on which future transnational institutions ought to be built.
exaly   +2 more sources

Issues in World Commission on Dams report development: inconsistencies between the facts found and the guidelines

Hydrological Processes, 2006
AbstractThe World Commission on Dams (WCD) is an international and independent body consisting of 12 dam experts. It published its only and final report ‘Dams and Development’ in November 2000 after 2·5 years of preparation. The report is composed of two parts: part I contains the facts found and part II contains recommendations.
Ryo Fujikura, Mikiyasu Nakayama
exaly   +2 more sources

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