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p. -1 of 74 BACK | NEXT Home Page of Dams and Development Foreword I. Why an e-paper on dams and development? II. Assessing options III. Participatory processes IV. Social impacts V. Environmental impacts VI. Benefit distribution VII. Dam safety and sustainability VIII. Existing projects IX. Improving governance X. What other organizations say XI. ADB, Dams, and Development XII. References Contact Us

WCD Guideline on Strategic Impact Assessment

The World Commission on Dams recommended the use of strategic impact assessment in its Guideline #4 as it:

'takes the concept of project level impact assessment and moves it up into the initial phases of planning and options assessment. It is a broad assessment covering entire sectors, policies and programmes, and ensures that environmental, social, health and cultural implications of all options are considered at an early stage in planning. It is a generic term that includes a range of planning tools for example, sectoral environmental assessments (EA), basin-wide EAs, regional EAs, and cumulative EAs.'

A thematic review on impact assessment was prepared as input to WCD, see

Sadler, B., Verocai, I., Vanclay, F., 2000. Environmental and Social Impact Assessment for Large Dams, Thematic Review V.2

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