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WCD Assessment Online
http://www.wcdassessment.org

- 31 May 2001

Lokayan (India), Lawyers' Environmental Action Team (Tanzania) and World
Resources Institute (USA) are carrying out an independent assessment of the
World Commission on Dams to evaluate the implications of its experience for
future global policy-making.

The central aim of our research is to assess the World Commission on Dams
experience as an example of global public policy-making at the contentious
intersection of environment and development. We are examining the recent
evolution of global governance, including other global processes that
emerged during and after the Rio Earth Summit. Within this context we are
asking: How was the WCD different? How did it try to put in practice the
'good governance' principles to which it subscribed? To what degree was it
successful? How did the WCD's experience affect its broad legitimacy with
concerned stakeholders?

We will assess the likely impact of this experience on future attempts to
address environment and development issues at a global level. What will be
the Commission's legacy when governments and non-governmental groups look
to create new, global rules for biotechnology development? For trade and
environment linkages? For other forms of large infrastructure or extractive
industry?

The full report and executive summary will be available this fall. Please
visit our website, http://www.wcdassessment.org for updates. PDF versions
of the report will be made available on the website. To obtain hard copies,
please contact the authors at the email addresses below:

Mairi Dupar mairid@wri.org
Navroz Dubash navrozd@wri.org
Smitu Kothari smitukothari@usa.net
Tundu Lissu leat@twiga.com

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