This Special Issue will also come out as a CD to be produced and distributed by UNEP and WaA. The CD will be released at the Stockholm World Water Week on 7 September 2010 at a special session convened by Water Alternatives and UNEP (See programme here) , with the collaboration of M-POWER, International Rivers, the Swedish Water House, WWF, IUCN, GTZ, CPWF, International Hydropower Association, and Water Integrity Network.

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Volume 3 | Issue 2

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                      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 | Erratum

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

The Ilisu dam in Turkey and the role of the export credit agencies and NGO networks
Christine Eberlein, Heike Drillisch, Ercan Ayboga, Thomas Wenidoppler
Water Alternatives 3(2): 291-311               Abstract | Full Text - PDF | Erratum

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
Water Alternatives 3(2): 416-422               Abstract | Full Text - PDF

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