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Profile - Demystifying Dams and Development: The World Commission on Dams and Development
Environmental Politics, 2001exaly +2 more sources
Japanese experiences to enhance the World Commission on Dams guidelines
Hydrological Processes, 2002AbstractThe impact of large dam construction projects on the human environment, and particularly on resettlers, is often the main reason for opposition toward large dam construction projects. The World Commission on Dams (WCD) published its only and final report ‘Dams and Development’ in November 2000. The report contains a set of 26 guidelines.
Mikiyasu Nakayama +2 more
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The World Commission on Dams and trends in global environmental governance
Politics and the Life Sciences, 2002The World Commission on Dams marks a moment of real progress in the large-dams controversy. It does so in at least two ways: as a statement of the norms that should govern dam-related decision-making and as a process of dialogue between dam proponents and critics. Whether this progress translates into consistently better dam-related decisionmaking is a
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The World Commission on Dams as a multi-stakeholder process: Some future challenges
Politics and the Life Sciences, 2002Business as usual, government as usual, and perhaps even protest as usual are not giving us the progress needed to achieve sustainable development. Let's see if we can't work together to find better paths forward.
Minu Hemmati, Paul Hohnen
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Harnessing untapped hydropower in the context of the World Commission on Dams
2001 Power Engineering Society Summer Meeting. Conference Proceedings (Cat. No.01CH37262), 2001The pressing human development needs for water, food and electricity, as well as the escalating confrontations over resources development, demanded an unprecedented global response by a multi-constituency commission to resolve the high-stakes conflict over how to develop water and energy resources for the benefit of all stakeholders.
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Politics and the Life Sciences, 2002
In mid-2000, Medha Patkar, a leader of one of the best-known social movements in India, and Goran Lindahl, the Chief Executive Officer of one of the world's largest engineering firms, participated in a meeting together in Cape Town. The two came from different worlds.
Navroz K. Dubash +3 more
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In mid-2000, Medha Patkar, a leader of one of the best-known social movements in India, and Goran Lindahl, the Chief Executive Officer of one of the world's largest engineering firms, participated in a meeting together in Cape Town. The two came from different worlds.
Navroz K. Dubash +3 more
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Global Public Policy, Partnership, and the Case of the World Commission on Dams
Public Administration Review, 2002This article examines the potential for partnership to address two major challenges in public service: (1) the evolving sociopolitical context of public service, that is, the increasing incidence and intensity of conflict among diverse stakeholders; and (2) the formulation of acceptable and feasible global public policy.
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Nine Months after the Launch of the World Commission on Dams Report
International Journal of Water Resources Development, 2002The World Commission on Dams (WCD) was established in 1998 in response to the increasing controversies over dam projects. Its report, published in November 2000, concluded that dams have delivered many benefits, but in too many cases the price paid to secure those benefits was unnecessarily high and adverse impacts could have been avoided.
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