Dams and Development: A New Framework for Decision-making : the Report of the World Commission on DamsEarthscan, 2000 - 404 pages By the year 2000, the world had built more than 45,000 large dams to irrigate crops, generate power, control floods in wet times and store water in dry times. Yet, in the last century, large dams also disrupted the ecology of half the world's rivers, displaced tens of millions of people from their homes and left nations burdened with debt. Their impacts have inevitably generated growing controversy and conflicts. Resolving their role in meeting water and energy needs is vital for the future and illustrates the complex development challenges that face our societies. - is the product of an unprecedented global public policy effort to bring governments, the private sector and civil society together in one process - provides the first comprehensive global and independent review of the performance and impacts of dams - presents a new framework for water and energy resources development - develops an agenda of seven strategic priorities with corresponding criteria and guidelines for future decision-making. Challenging our assumptions, the Commission sets before us the hard, rigorous and clear-eyed evidence of exactly why nations decide to build dams and how dams can affect human, plant and animal life, for better or for worse. Dams and Development: A New Framework for Decision-Making is vital reading on the future of dams as well as the changing development context where new voices, choices and options leave little room for a business-as-usual scenario. |
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... Cultural Heritage Human Health Equity and the Distribution of Costs and Benefits Findings and Lessons Chapter 5 : Options for Water and Energy Resources Development Agriculture and Irrigation Energy and Electricity Water Supply ...
... cultural and health impacts of livelihood displacement Missing numbers of affected people : Sardar Sarovar project , India , and Pak Mun dam , Thailand 103 PO 104 4.4 4.5 4.6 Economic value of downstream floodplains , Hadejia - Nguru ...
... Cultural heritage impact assessment 285 9.3 Ghazi - Barotha , Pakistan 291 9.4 Design and cost of environmental flows - Pollan dam , Ireland 295 9.5 Benefits of improving fish passes 296 9.6 Financial assurances and the Environment ...
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Contents
Water and Development 381578 | 3 |
1 | 11 |
Understanding the Large Dams Debate | 17 |
THE WCD GLOBAL REVIEW OF LARGE DAMS | 35 |
1 | 39 |
4 | 43 |
6 | 47 |
Hydropower Dams | 49 |
Energy and Electricity | 148 |
Water Supply | 156 |
6 | 158 |
Findings and Lessons | 163 |
DecisionMaking and the Political Economy of Large Dams | 169 |
Planning and Evaluation | 175 |
5 | 177 |
8 | 185 |
7 | 50 |
8 | 60 |
MultiPurpose Dams | 62 |
Ecosystems and Large Dams Environmental | 73 |
1 | 75 |
5 | 82 |
Floodplain Ecosystems | 83 |
7 | 88 |
Anticipating and Responding to Ecosystem Impacts | 89 |
People and Large Dams Social Performance | 97 |
1 | 101 |
Indigenous Peoples | 105 |
Downstream Livelihoods | 112 |
4 | 113 |
89 | 116 |
Human Health | 118 |
2 | 124 |
Findings and Lessons | 129 |
Options for Water and Energy Resources | 135 |
1 | 139 |
5 | 145 |
3 | 186 |
Findings and Lessons | 190 |
Enhancing Human Development Rights Risks | 197 |
1 | 199 |
Trends and Challenges in Applying the New Development Framework | 203 |
3 | 207 |
Conclusion | 210 |
1 | 260 |
3 | 285 |
A Comment Medha Patkar | 321 |
1 | 326 |
1 | 342 |
Glossary | 344 |
Reports in the WCD Knowledge Base | 359 |
CRE | 361 |
6 | 370 |
8 | 381 |
United Nations Declarations | 383 |
A Profile of the WCD Secretariat | 397 |
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