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Letter to the Editor: “Talking to the Experts: Can we improve the ESIA Process?”
Having worked as a river ecologist for over 40 years, including a number of years working in the lower Mekong...
New Protest Paralyzes Brazil's Belo Monte Dam
Indigenous and riverbank communities occupy key work camp
of Amazon megaproject
Altamira, Brazil – Today some 150 protestors from four...
U.S. Urged to Reject New World Bank Focus on Large Infrastructure
Originally published in Inter Press service (IPS) WASHINGTON, Mar 19 2013 – A group of environmentalists, gender activists and international...
Do Not Pass Go: The Failed Promise of Fish Ladders
From March 2013 World Rivers Review New research reveals that fish-passage facilities at US Atlantic Coast mainstem dams don’t work...
Grameen Shakti: A Vanguard Model for Rural Clean Energy
From March 2013 World Rivers Review Grameen Shakti has helped Kohinur become an energy entrepreneurPhoto by Nancy Wimmer In one...
Fish Passages A Poor Match for Mekong Dams’ Impacts
From March 2013 World Rivers Review The start of construction of the Xayaburi Dam on the Mekong River in Laos...
Talking to the Experts: Can We Improve the ESIA Process?
From March 2013 World Rivers Review There is broad consensus that the process for analyzing and addressing the environmental and...
Why Environmental Impact Assessments Fail to Protect Rivers
From March 2013 World Rivers Review At a time when potentially harmful infrastructure projects such as large dams are experiencing...
China’s Domestic Dam Plans Draw Ire At Home and Abroad
From March 2013 World Rivers Review China’s State Council – the country’s ultimate decision-making body – announced its new Energy...
WRR Commentary: From the Technical to the Fundamental
Commentary: March 2013 World Rivers Review Photo by 350.org On February 17 I joined some 40,000 others in Washington, DC...