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Dams and Displacement: Raising the Standards and Broadening the Research Agenda

open access: yesWater 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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Treatment of Displaced Indigenous Populations in Two Large Hydro Projects in Panama

open access: yesWater Alternatives, 2010
Consultation practices with affected populations prior to hydro concessions often remained poor in the decade since the World Commission on Dams (WCD) although, in some cases the involvement of local people in the details of resettlement has improved ...
Mary Finley-Brook, Curtis Thomas
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Viewpoint – Better Management of Hydropower in an Era of Climate Change

open access: yesWater Alternatives, 2010
Ten years ago the World Commission on Dams (WCD) report established new standards for the sustainable development of water infrastructure, but the hopes many of us had then for a new era of more thoughtful development have been attenuated by the ...
Jamie Pittock
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From Dams to Development Justice: Progress with 'Free, Prior and Informed Consent' Since the World Commission on Dams

open access: yesWater Alternatives, 2010
The World Commission on Dams (WCD) helped establish as development best practice the requirement to respect the right of indigenous peoples to give or withhold their 'free, prior and informed consent' (FPIC) to development projects that will affect them.
Joji Cariño, Marcus Colchester
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Gaining Public Acceptance: A Critical Strategic Priority of the World Commission on Dams

open access: yesWater Alternatives, 2010
Gaining Public Acceptance (GPA) was a strategic priority recommended in the final report of the World Commission on Dams (WCD). GPA remains a central, thorny challenge for all parties interested in how society makes decisions about the development of ...
John Dore, Louis Lebel
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Struggles Over Dams as Struggles for Justice: The World Commission on Dams (WCD) and Anti-Dam Campaigns in Thailand and Mozambique

Society & 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
Chris Sneddon, Coleen Fox
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Grand Coulee Dam and the Columbia Basin Project USA Final Report: November 2000 Prepared for the World Commission on Dams (WCD) by: Grand Coulee Dam and Columbia Basin Project

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Ortolano, Leonard   +11 more
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Debating dams: The World Commission on Dams 20 years on

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water, 2019
Christopher Schulz
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