159 pages , April 11-12, 1997
In the 1980s proposals for
large dams began to be fundamentally questioned by
locally affected interests and global coalitions of environmental
and human rights groups (for example,
Sardar Sarovar). In the 1990s this has resulted in a
succession of calls for a moratorium on World Bank
funding and reparations for those affected by construction
of large dams (for example, the 1994
Manibeli and 1997 Curitiba Declarations).
In the 1980s proposals for
large dams began to be fundamentally questioned by
locally affected interests and global coalitions of environmental
and human rights groups (for example,
Sardar Sarovar). In the 1990s this has resulted in a
succession of calls for a moratorium on World Bank
funding and reparations for those affected by construction
of large dams (for example, the 1994
Manibeli and 1997 Curitiba Declarations).