Dams and development : a new framework for decision-making : the report of the World Commission on Dams : an overview
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. This book develops an agenda of seven strategic priorities with corresponding criteria and guidelines for future decision-making.
28 pages : illustrations, map ; 28 cm
9781853837982, 1853837989
46593666
Chapter 1: Water Development and Large Dams * Part I: The WCD Global Review of Large Dams � Chapter 2: Technical, Financial and Economic Performance * Chapter 3: Ecosystems and Large Dams: Environmental Performance * Chapter 4: People and Large Dams: Social Performance * Chapter 5 Options for Water and Energy Resources Development * Chapter 6: Decision-Making, Planning and Institutions * Part II: The Way Forward - Chapter 7: Enhancing Human Development: Rights, Risks and Negotiated Outcomes * Chapter 8: Strategic priorities � A new Policy Framework for the Development of Water and Energy Resources * Chapter 9: Criteria and Guidelines � Applying the Strategic Priorities * Chapter 10: Beyond the Commission- An Agenda for Change * List of Tables * List of Figures * List of Boxes * A Comment � Medha Patkar * Annexes * Index
Cover title
"November 2000."