Rivers, The World Commission on Dams Framework - a Brief Introduction, February 29, 2008. Archived April 1, 2020, at the Wayback Machine Dams and Development:...
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to the International Commission on Large Dams, 73 dams and reservoirs in Pakistan are over 15 m (49 ft) in height. Tarbela Dam in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa...
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dams, the World Commission on Dams (WCD) commissioned the Thailand Development Research Institute (TDRI) to conduct a case study on the Pak Mun Dam....
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list of the tallest dams in the world over 135 m (443 ft) in height. The tallest dam in the world is the Jinping-I Dam, an arch dam in China at 305 m (1...
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the contributors to the World Commission on Dams (WCD) Cross-Check Survey. He also presented at the World Commission on Dams (WCD)'s Regional Consultations...
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Hydroelectricity (redirect from Hydroelectric dams)
hydroelectric dams is the need to relocate the people living where the reservoirs are planned. In 2000, the World Commission on Dams estimated that dams had physically...
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World Commission on Dams in 2000, there were 22,104 dams over the height of 15 m (49 ft) operating in China. Of the world's total large dams, China accounts...
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The International Commission on Large Dams, or ICOLD (French: Commission Internationale des Grands Barrages or CIGB), is an international non-governmental...
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Inflatable rubber dam International Commission on Large Dams List of dams and reservoirs List of largest dams List of tallest dams List of tidal barrages...
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for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and secretary-general of the World Commission on Dams. The son of a German farmer who had emigrated to Rio Grande do...
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Medha Patkar (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)
addition to the above, Patkar was a commissioner on the World Commission on Dams, which did thorough research on the environmental, social, political and economic...
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"Kariba Dam, Zambia and Zimbabwe; Final Report: November 2000" (PDF). World Commission on Dams. 2000. p. VI. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-06-13...
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Examination of China's Three Gorges Dam Project Based on the Framework Presented in the Report of The World Commission on Dams (MS paper). Virginia Polytechnic...
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many of these dams is to produce hydroelectricity. As can be seen in the lists, these dams provide many tens of gigawatts of power. Major dam construction...
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Len (1999). "USA Case Study - Grand Coulee Dam". World Commission on Dams. Archived from the original on September 29, 2000. Retrieved January 11, 2011...
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Lake Kariba (category Coordinates on Wikidata)
Zambiatourism.com. Retrieved August 11, 2005. "Dam Statistics: Africa and the Middle East Regions". World Commission on Dams. Retrieved August 11, 2005. "Lake Profile:...
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concrete auxiliary dams spans the river from the island to river left. The dam's two spillways are on the auxiliary dams rather than the main dam. The main spillway...
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building a dam can exceed the risk factor. According to the World Commission on Dams, a key difference between a dam and a barrage is that a dam is built...
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and Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, pp 83-114 World Commission on Dams (2000). Dams and Development: A New Framework for Decision Making. Earthscan...
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Iguazu Falls (category World Heritage Sites in Argentina)
original on 14 July 2007. Retrieved 11 March 2007.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) World Commission on Dams website: Archived...
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Lakshmi Chand Jain (category Members of the Planning Commission of India)
a member of the Planning Commission, as Indian High commissioner to South Africa, as a member of the World Commission on Dams (WCD) and as secretary of...
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the World Commission on Dams. ISBN 978-1-56973-494-0. Seymour, Frances J.; Dubash, Navroz Kersi; Brunner, Jake (2000). The right conditions: the World Bank...
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Reservoir (redirect from Impact of climate change on reservoirs)
the dams to levels much higher than would occur by generating the same power from fossil fuels. According to the World Commission on Dams report (Dams And...
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Berg River Dam was the first dam in South Africa to be designed and constructed in accordance with the guidelines of the World Commission on Dams. It has...
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Environmental impact of reservoirs (redirect from Environmental impact of dams)
Environmental Effects of Large Dams at International Rivers (an excerpt for Rivers No More: The Environmental Effects of Large Dams) World Commission on Dams...
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tallest dam in India and the 13th-tallest dam in the world. It is the primary dam of THDC India Ltd. and the Tehri hydroelectric complex. The dam begun...
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study prepared as an input to the World Commission on Dams, Cape Town, www.dams.org EJOLT. "Tucuruí hydroelectric dam, Pará, Brazil | EJAtlas". Environmental...
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Subarnarekha River (category Coordinates on Wikidata)
Retrieved 2010-04-24. "Dams, Indigenous Peoples and Ethnic Minorities" (PDF). World Commission on Dams. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-06-07. Retrieved...
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Scudder is a leading expert on dams and relocation effects. His 2005 book "The Future of Large Dams" covers aspects of large dams and development including...
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on dams for electricity generation, some environmental impacts of dams such as submergence of usable/ecological land and their negative impact on Pakistan's...
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