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The World Commission on Dams as a multi-stakeholder process: Some future challenges

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 May 2016

Minu Hemmati
Affiliation:
Stakeholder Forum for Our Common Future, c/o United Nations Association, 3 Whitehall Court, London SW1A 2EL, UK info@earthsummit2002.org
Paul Hohnen
Affiliation:
former director of Greenpeace International
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Extract

Business as usual, government as usual, and perhaps even protest as usual are not giving us the progress needed to achieve sustainable development. Let's see if we can't work together to find better paths forward.

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Harrison Symposium I
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Copyright © Association for Politics and the Life Sciences 

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