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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... Performance Structure and Methodology Construction Costs and Schedules Irrigation Dams Hydropower Dams Water Supply Dams Flood Control Dams Multi - Purpose Dams Physical Sustainability Issues Findings and Lessons 37 38 39 42 49 56 58 62 ...
... Performance Terresterial Ecosystems and Biodiversity Greenhouse Gas Emissions Downstream Aquatic Ecosystems and Biodiversity Floodplain Ecosystems Fisheries Ecosystem Enhancement Cumulative Impacts Anticipating and Responding to ...
... performance Actual irrigated area compared to planned targets over time 39 40 42 43 43 2.6 2.7 Economic performance of multilateral - financed irrigation dams Project averages for actual versus hydropower generation 47 50 2.8 Actual ...
... performance of hydropower at Grand Coulee dam Economic performance and cost recovery of hydropower at Tucurui dam Flood protection in Japan 53 55 56 59 2.8 From flood control to flood management in the United States 61 2.9 Cost recovery ...
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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