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Applicability of the World Commission on Dams' recommendations for public financial institutions: a case for Japanese yen loan assistance

Hydrological Processes, 2003
AbstractThe World Commission on Dams (WCD) published ‘Dams and Development’ as its only and final report in November 2000. Identifying ‘core values’ and ‘strategic priorities’, the report proposed ‘internationally acceptable criteria and standards’. Despite the fact that the WCD itself did not intend that the report be used as a blueprint, many non ...
Ryo Fujikura, Mikiyasu Nakayama, Katsuhiko Mori   +2 more
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A Critical Look at the Report of the World Commission on Dams in the Context of the Debate on Large Dams on the Himalayan Rivers

International Journal of Water Resources Development, 2002
In the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna (GBM) basin in south Asia, the Himalayan rivers offer a large number of sites suitable for the construction of storage dams to collect part of their very large monsoon run-off and generate a good amount of hydropower.
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Global Norms Through Global Deliberation? Reflections on the World Commission on Dams

Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Organizations, 2009
In recent years, global “deliberative processes” bringing together government, civil society, and private sector actors have become increasingly common on the global stage. Past work on these processes has either read them as relatively unproblematic consensus-building exercises, or exercises in global corporatism.
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World Commission on Dams: implications for food and irrigation¹1

Irrigation and Drainage, 2001
AbstractThe World Commission on Dams has now published its report. Insights into the workings and conclusions of the Commission were published in the last edition of this Journal.While the WCD report brings together a number of important existing and new recommendations on ameliorating the negative impacts of large dams, it pays inadequate attention to
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Aftermath, Overview and an Appraisal of Past Events Leading to Some of the Imbalances in the Report of the World Commission on Dams

International Journal of Water Resources Development, 2001
As soon as the composition of the World Commission on Dams (WCD) was declared, it was not difficult for most of the developing countries to visualize the possible nature of the report it was to generate, despite all the talk about its so-called 'participatory' and 'transparent' consultation process.
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The Democratic Legitimacy of Public-Private Rule Making: What Can We Learn from the World Commission on Dams?

Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Organizations, 2005
This article attempts to provide answers to one specific and one general question: How should we evaluate the performance of the World Commission on Dams in terms of its democratic legitimacy? And what does the evaluation of the commission’s performance tell us about the legitimacy of global rule making in more general terms? Based on these questions,
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Cross check survey : World Commission on Dams

2000
Bibliography: pages 71-72.
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The World Commission on Dams and beyond

2013
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Cost and schedule overruns in large hydropower dams: an assessment of projects completed since 2000

International Journal of Water Resources Development, 2020
Julian Kirchherr, Judith Plummer Braeckman   +1 more
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World Commission on Dams: implications for food and irrigation11

Irrigation and Drainage, 2001
Chris Perry
exaly