June 2010
Special Issue: WCD+10: Revisiting the large dam controversy
Guest editors: Deborah Moore, John Dore, Dipak Gyawali
Preface
Achim Steiner
Water Alternatives 3(2): 1-2 Abstract | Full Text - PDF
The World Commission on Dams + 10: Revisiting the large dam controversy
Deborah Moore, John Dore, Dipak Gyawali
Water Alternatives 3(2): 3-13 Abstract | Full Text - PDF
Lost in development’s shadow: The downstream human consequences of dams
Brian D. Richter, Sandra Postel, Carmen Revenga, Thayer Scudder, Bernhard Lehner, Allegra Churchill, Morgan Chow
Water Alternatives 3(2): 14-42 Abstract | Full Text - PDF
Initiatives in the hydro sector post World Commission on Dams – The Hydropower Sustainability Assessment Forum
Helen Locher, Geir Yngve Hermansen, Gudni A. Johannesson, Yu Xuezhong, Israel Phiri, David Harrison, Joerg Hartmann, Michael Simon, Donal O’Leary, Courtney Lowrance, Daryl Fields, André Abadie, Refaat Abdel-Malek, Andrew Scanlon, Zhou Shichun, Kirsten Nyman
Water Alternatives 3(2): 43-57 Abstract | Full Text - PDF
The dam industry, the World Commission on Dams and the Hydropower Sustainability Assessment Forum (HSAF) process
Peter Bosshard
Water Alternatives 3(2): 58-70 Abstract | Full Text - PDF
Perspectives on the salience and magnitude of dam impacts for hydro development scenarios in China
Desiree Tullos, Philip H. Brown, Kelly Kibler, Darrin Magee, Bryan Tilt, Aaron Wolf
Water Alternatives 3(2): 71-90 Abstract | Full Text - PDF
Policy considerations for greenhouse gas emissions from freshwater reservoirs
Kirsi Mäkinen, Shahbaz Khan
Water Alternatives 3(2): 91-105 Abstract | Full Text - PDF
Nepal's constructive Dialogue on Dams and Development
Ajaya Dixit, Dipak Gyawali
Water Alternatives 3(2): 106-123 Abstract | Full Text - PDF
Gaining public acceptance: A critical strategic priority of the World Commission on Dams
John Dore, Louis Lebel
Water Alternatives 3(2): 124-141 Abstract | Full Text - PDF
Dams and displacement: Raising the standards and broadening the research agenda
Brooke McDonald-Wilmsen, Michael Webber
Water Alternatives 3(2): 142-161 Abstract | Full Text - PDF
Participation with a punch: Community referenda on dam projects and the right to free, prior, and informed consent to development
Brant McGee
Water Alternatives 3(2): 162-184 Abstract | Full Text - PDF
Social discounting of large dams with climate change uncertainty
Marc Jeuland
Water Alternatives 3(2): 185-206 Abstract | Full Text - PDF
Non-dam alternatives for delivering water services at least cost and risk
Michael P. Totten, Timothy J. Killeen, Tracy A. Farrell
Water Alternatives 3(2): 207-230 Abstract | Full Text - PDF
Discussing large dams in Asia after the World Commission on Dams: Is a political ecology approach the way forward?
Ravi Baghel, Marcus Nüsser
Water Alternatives 3(2): 231-248 Abstract | Full Text - PDF
Uncertainties in the Amazon hydropower development: Risk scenarios and environmental issues around the Belo Monte dam
Wilson Cabral de Sousa Júnior, John Reid
Water Alternatives 3(2): 249-268 Abstract | Full Text - PDF> | Erratum
Treatment of displaced indigenous populations in two large hydro projects in Panama
Mary Finley-Brook, Curtis Thomas
Water Alternatives 3(2): 269-290 Abstract | Full Text - PDF
Export Credit Agencies and the Ilisu dam in Turkey
Christine Eberlein, Heike Drillisch, Ercan Ayboga, Thomas Wenidoppler
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The changing political dynamics of dam building on the Mekong
Philip Hirsch
Water Alternatives 3(2): 312-323 Abstract | Full Text - PDF
Dam development in Vietnam: The evolution of dam-induced resettlement policy
Nga Dao
Water Alternatives 3(2): 324-340 Abstract | Full Text - PDF
Chixoy dam legacies: The struggle to secure reparation and the right to remedy in Guatemala
Barbara Rose Johnston
Water Alternatives 3(2): 341-361 Abstract | Full Text - PDF
Peace on the river? Social-ecological restoration and large dam removal in the Klamath basin, USA
Hannah Gosnell, Erin Clover Kelly
Water Alternatives 3(2): 362-383 Abstract | Full Text - PDF
Viewpoints and experiences
The World Bank versus the World Commission on Dams
Robert Goodland
Water Alternatives 3(2): 384-398 Abstract | Full Text - PDF
Overreach and response: The politics of the WCD and its aftermath
John Briscoe
Water Alternatives 3(2): 399-415 Abstract | Full Text - PDF
Reflections on the WCD as a mechanism of global governance
Navroz Dubash
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From dams to development justice: Progress with 'free, prior and informed consent' since the World Commission on Dams
Joji Cariño, Marcus Colchester
Water Alternatives 3(2): 423-437 Abstract | Full Text - PDF
Principles in practice: Updating the global multi-stakeholder dialogue on dams in 2010
Mark Smith
Water Alternatives 3(2): 438-443 Abstract | Full Text - PDF
Better management of hydropower in an era of climate change
Jamie Pittock
Water Alternatives 3(2): 444-452 Abstract | Full Text - PDF
The role of the German Development Cooperation in promoting sustainable hydropower
Cathleen Seeger, Kirsten Nyman, Richard Twum
Water Alternatives 3(2): 453-462 Abstract | Full Text - PDF
Book Reviews
Sharing the benefits of large dams in West Africa (Skinner, J.; Niasse, M. and Lawrence, H., 2009).
Jean-Philippe Venot
Water Alternatives 3(2): 463-465 Full Text - PDF
Dam (Turpin, T., 2008).
Carl Middleton
Water Alternatives 3(2): 466-468 Full Text - PDF
Native peoples and water rights: Irrigation, dams, and the law in Western Canada (Matsui, K., 2009).
Hana Boye and Richard Paisley
Water Alternatives 3(2): 469-472 Full Text - PDF
Water war in the Klamath basin: Macho law, combat biology, and dirty politics (Doremus, H. and Tarlock, D., 2008).
Philippus Wester
Water Alternatives 3(2): 473-474 Full Text - PDF