Anti-Dam Struggles and the Technopolitics of Hydropower: The Case of Arun-III in Nepal

Saklani, Udisha

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“…Further localised campaigns against individual dams appeared in the 1990s, for example against the Chilean Ralco Dam, which inundated land in indigenous Mapuche-Pehuenche territories (Nesti 2002), against Nepal's Arun III, an ambitious yet expensive hydropower dam project in a remote Himalayan valley (Pandey 2015;Saklani 2021). Campaigns continued against the Slovakian-Hungarian Gabcikovo-Nagymaros dams project, first proposed by government planners under state socialism, which had become the source of a legal dispute between both countries (Galambos 1993).…”

Section: Dam Conflicts In the 1980-1990s: Anti-dam Activists Versus T...mentioning

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“…The following year, the Bank did so, and was followed by the Japanese government, responding to lobbying by Friends of the Earth Japan. The World Bank also cancelled a planned loan to the Arun III Dam in Nepal (Pandey 2015;Saklani 2021;Usher 1997). Policy continued to shift: a review of resettlement in Bank projects recommended changes, and improved procedures and a new water resources management policy in 1993 made "environmental protection and mitigation" integral elements of a comprehensive approach to water development (Fox 1998;Moore and Sklar 1998).…”

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Addressing conflict over dams: The inception and establishment of the World Commission on Dams

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Adams

2022

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The World Commission on Dams (WCD) was active between 1998 and 2000. Despite the Commission’s short life, it left a lasting mark on the global debate on large dams, one of the most intractable and conflicted issues in environmental governance. Existing accounts of the Commission focus chiefly on its recommendations and their influence on dam planners. Another major topic of interest has been the novelty of making global environmental policy through multi-stakeholder dialogue rather than through intergovernmental negotiation. This focus on technicalities, results, and institutional design underplays the Commission’s political significance. It was a bold and innovative attempt to find common ground between promoters and opponents of dams on which a new way of thinking about and planning dams could be built. In this paper, we focus on the emergence of the Commission, in response to the evolving conflict over dams, particularly between the World Bank and its critics. We explore the processes that led to the establishment of the Commission and its role as an attempt to transform conflict into cooperation by bringing together pro- and anti-dam communities.

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Section: Dam Conflicts In the 1980-1990s: Anti-dam Activists Versus T...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Addressing conflict over dams: The inception and establishment of the World Commission on Dams

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2022

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Anti-Dam Struggles and the Technopolitics of Hydropower: The Case of Arun-III in Nepal

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Addressing conflict over dams: The inception and establishment of the World Commission on Dams

Addressing conflict over dams: The inception and establishment of the World Commission on Dams

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