Large Dams: Learning from the Past Looking at the Future : Workshop Proceedings, Gland, Switzerland, April 11-12, 1997, Part 166Anthony H. J. Dorcey World Bank Publications, 1997 M01 1 - 145 pages In 1996 the World Bank Operations Evaluation Department completed an internal review of 50 large dams funded by the World Bank. IUCN-The World Conservation Union and the World Bank agreed to jointly host a workshop in April 1997 to discuss the findings of the review and their implications for a more in-depth study. The workshop broke new ground by bringing together representatives from governments, the private sector, international financial institutions and civil society organizations to address three issues: critical advances needed in knowledge and practice, methodologies and approaches required to achieve these advances, and proposals for a follow-up process involving all stakeholders. |
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Page 55 - Organization (WHO) standards. Causality there can rather easily be ascertained. Such is not the case with the other type of impact, which includes a high incidence of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and such social pathologies as increasing spousal abuse and suicide, especially among young women. Unlike the situation on...
Page 53 - ... make available a more constant water supply for hydro-power generation, navigation and commercial irrigation. Though few detailed studies have been completed on the impacts of such regularisation, those that exist have show them to have a devastating effect on millions of people (Scudder 1994). The topic has been best researched in west Africa in connection with mainstream dams on the Senegal River and a number of dams in Nigeria. After three years of studies, an Institute for Development Anthropology...
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Page 63 - In regard to specific cases, Waterbury's assessment of the Aswan High Dam concludes that 'the history of this project is testimony to the primacy of political considerations determining virtually all technical choices with the predicted result that a host of unanticipated technical and ecological crises have emerged that now entail more political decisions'.
Page 59 - In exceptional cases such releases may be negotiated after construction as with South Africa's Pongolapoort Dam and the Manantali Dam on the Senegal. However, since dam design may preclude them, the best approach is an attempt to influence policy during the planning and design stage. Controlled flooding is a relatively new concept primarily initiated by researchers and planners. Where involved, local residents have been highly supportive. Government responses have been mixed, while donors have largely...
Page 54 - At the time that Quebec's Premier announced the James Bay Project in April 1971, there had been no Cree involvement in project planning or design, nor had any form of social-impact analysis been carried out. With construction already under way by the mid-1970s, the emerging Cree leadership believed, probably correctly, that they had little hope of stopping the first phase of the Project By agreeing to its implementation and becoming signatories of the JBNQA, at least they received in return a promise...
Page 54 - Salem-Murdock et al., 1990). In his 1994 analysis of the Kainji Dam project on the Niger, Roder notes that adverse downstream impacts include an estimated 60 to 70 percent reduction in the riverine fishery and a 30 percent reduction of seasonally flooded (fadama) land that has lowered swamp rice production by 18 percent. Although I have seen no confirmation of his figures, in a 1979 FAO technical paper (Welcomme...