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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Introduction to the Updated Edition: A New Order for Rivers and Society: The World Commission on Dams, and Beyond | |
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| The Prehistory of the World Commission on Dams | |
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| Conspiracies and Consultations | |
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| Findings | |
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| Dirty Reservoirs: Greenhouse Gas Emitting Dams | |
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| A Changing Climate for Dams | |
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| The Century of the Small: Alternatives to Dams | |
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| Bringing the Harvest Home | |
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| We've Got the Power | |
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| Recommendations | |
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| Reactions | |
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| Changing the World, Dam by Dam | |
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| The Rise of the Dam Decommissioning Movement | |
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| The Power and the Water | |
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| A Short History of Rivers | |
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| Dams: What They Are and What They Do | |
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| A Short History of Damming | |
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| The End of the Big Dam Era? | |
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| Rivers No More: The Environmental Effects of Dams | |
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| Flooding for Posterity | |
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| Dams and Geology: Morphological Effects | |
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| Dirty Dams: Effects on Water Quality | |
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| They Shall Not Pass: Dams and Migratory Fish | |
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| Foil'd Wanderers: Hydrological Effects | |
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| The Mitigation Game | |
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| The EIA Industry | |
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| Temples of Doom: The Human Consequences of Dams | |
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| Dammed Lies and Statistics | |
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| The Final Blow: Dams and Indigenous People | |
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| Waiting for the Dam | |
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| After the Deluge | |
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| The Failure of Resettlement Policies | |
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| Dams and Disease | |
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| When Things Fall Apart: The Technical Failures of Large Dams | |
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| Not on Solid Ground: Dams and Geology | |
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| Political Hydrology | |
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| Mud against Dams: Sedimentation | |
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| Reservoir-Induced Seismicity: Dams that Cause the Earth to Move | |
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| Iron Dams and Corpses: Dam Safety | |
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| Getting Old: Dam Ageing and Decommissioning | |
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| Empty Promises: The Elusive Benefits of Large Dams | |
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| Generating Risk and Debt: Hydropower | |
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| Dams to the Rescue? Hydro and Global Warming | |
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| The Great Illusion: Flood Control | |
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| Too Much to Drink: Dams and Public Water Supply | |
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| Blocking the Passage: Dams and River Transport | |
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| The One that Got Away: Reservoir Fisheries | |
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| All the Fun of the Reservoir: Dams and Recreation | |
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| Paradise Lost: Dams and Irrigation | |
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| Killing the Land: Irrigation and Soil Degradation | |
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| The Social Effects of Large-Scale Irrigation | |
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| The Technical and Economic Failure of Large-Scale Irrigation | |
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| The Wise Use of Watersheds | |
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| Managing the Land to Manage the Water | |
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| Flood Management | |
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| Farming Drylands without Large Dams | |
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| Going Underground | |
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| Traditional Diversions | |
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| Modern Irrigation: Back to the Future | |
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| Fix the Pipe, Spare the River | |
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| Energy: Revolution or Catastrophe? | |
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| The Renewables Are Coming | |
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| Bringing Hydro Down to Size | |
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| Storming the Palace Gates | |
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| Industry Applies, Man Conforms: The Political Economy of Damming | |
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| The Ideology of Dams | |
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| Dams and Domination | |
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| Dams and Pork | |
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| Technocrats without a Cause: Dam-Building Bureaucracies | |
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| A Vibrant Corps? Dam-Building Companies | |
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| The Ties that Bind: Dependent Industries | |
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| Those Who Pay the Piper: Dams and 'Aid' | |
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| Incomprehension and Intimidation: The Dam Builders' Reply | |
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| Nemesis: The Economics of Large Dams | |
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| We Will Not Move: The International Anti-Dam Movement | |
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| Aesthetics and Taxes: Dam Fights in the US | |
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| Arrests and Restoration in the Tasmanian Wilderness | |
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| Eastern Europe: Fight the Dams, Fight the System | |
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| Warriors and Workers Fight Back: Brazil | |
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| Struggle Over the River Kwai: Thailand | |
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| Clinging to the Land: Resistance to Dams in India | |
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| Dam Fighting on a Global Scale | |
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| Afterword: From the Dam to the Watershed | |
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| The San Francisco and Watershed Management Declarations | |
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| Manibeli Declaration | |
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| Dams Involving Forced Resettlement | |
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| Declaration of Curitiba | |
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| Contact Addresses | |
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| Index | |