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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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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 – Overreach and Response: The Politics of the WCD and its Aftermath
Water Alternatives, 2010 This essay recounts the story of the World Commission on Dams (WCD) from the perspective of a former World Bank official who is often credited with first creating and then destroying the WCD.
John Briscoe
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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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Water Alternatives, 2010 The 2000 Report of the World Commission on Dams (WCD) found that dams can threaten the resources that provide the basis for indigenous and other peoples’ culture, religion, subsistence, social and family structure – and their very existence, through ...
Brant McGee
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Chixoy Dam Legacies: The Struggle to Secure Reparation and the Right to Remedy in Guatemala
Water Alternatives, 2010 The World Commission on Dams brought global attention to the adverse costs of large dam development, including the disproportionate displacement of indigenous peoples and ethnic minorities and the extreme impoverishment of development refugees.
Barbara Rose Johnston
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Dams and Displacement: Raising the Standards and Broadening the Research Agenda
Water Alternatives, 2010 The World Commission on Dams provided an analytical overview of the cumulative effects of years of dam development. A lack of commitment or capacity to cope with displacement or to consider the civil rights of, or risks to, displaced people led to the ...
Brooke McDonald-Wilmsen, Michael Webber
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