Navroz K. Dubash, Mairi Dupar, Smitu Kothari, Tundu Lissu
This report analyses the World Commission on Dams (WCD) as a model for global public policymaking
on contentious issues of environment, development and justice. The authors trace the WCD's roots
in the history of global commissions and civil society organizing. They assess the elements of the
WCD process that allowed dam builders and protesters to convene in the same room over two
years and to produce a consensus report on the future of large dams. The authors examine
the WCD's legacy both for the dams debate and, by implication, for future international efforts
to address such controversial issues as oil, gas and mining, debt relief, biotechnology, food security,
and trade and the environment.
November 2001 / 28 pages
Full report available at http://www.wristore.com/watinglobgov1.html
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