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Green Developmentalism? The Political Economy of Hydropower in India in the 21st Century
Development and Change, Volume 57, Issue 4, Page 649-679, July 2026.ABSTRACT This article critically examines the political economy of hydropower in India since its global reconfiguration as ‘green energy’ in the early 2000s. While an opportune convergence of interests among key global, national and subnational stakeholders contributed to the greening of hydropower in India, this reframing did not produce the expected ...
Vasudha Chhotray, Harsh Vasani
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Hydrological Processes, Volume 40, Issue 1, January 2026.The goal of this research is to assess if snow depletion patterns that can be used to remove cloud cover are altered during drought. We quantify the similarity of snow depletion patterns for drought and non‐drought years. We demonstrate that at the watershed and local snowline scale, snow depletion patterns are highly similar even under drought ...
Craig D. Woodruff +2 more
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Instream Large Wood Enhances the Benefits of e‐Floods in Regulated Mountain Rivers
River Research and Applications, Volume 41, Issue 8, Page 1643-1657, October 2025.ABSTRACT Environmental high flows, or e‐floods, released from dams are a key management strategy to mitigate the impacts of dam regulation and restore aquatic and riparian habitats. While there is extensive literature on the design and implementation of e‐floods, the role of instream large wood—downed trees, trunks, branches, and root wads—in enhancing
Virginia Ruiz‐Villanueva +1 more
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WIREs Water, Volume 12, Issue 2, March/April 2025.Pumped storage hydropower development is rapidly resurging in the US, yet this energy storage technology has positive and negative impacts at different scales. Building projects that minimize trade‐offs will require addressing environmental concerns and community interests in project design.
Surabhi Karambelkar +5 more
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Viewpoint – Reflections on the WCD as a Mechanism of Global Governance
Water Alternatives, 2010 The World Commission on Dams (WCD) has aroused debate as an innovation in global governance. I suggest that the WCD did, indeed, have many innovative features, but argue that processes such as the WCD are better suited to propagating norms than making ...
Navroz K. Dubash
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Doing dams better? A case study of a proposed pumped hydro scheme at Lake Onslow, Central Otago
New Zealand Geographer, Volume 80, Issue 3, Page 220-232, December 2024.Abstract Water resource managers and Geographers share common interests in meeting Sustainable Development Goal Seven (universal access to affordable energy) and addressing climate change. Hydropower plays a key role but dams have environmental, social and cultural consequences.
Khemaksone Phetpasak +2 more
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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 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 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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The Ilisu Dam in Turkey and the Role of Export Credit Agencies and NGO Networks
Water Alternatives, 2010 The World Commission on Dams (WCD) report focused attention on the question of how those displaced by large dams can be adequately compensated and properly resettled. An important debate from the Dams and Development Forum concerned the appropriate roles
Christine Eberlein +3 more
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