Materials:	Secondary literature on the impacts and benefits of the Bakun Dam and other projects.
Activity:	Prepare "report cards" on various projects. Have the costs outweighed the benefits? Which projects have been the best; which have been the worst? Key aspect of this activity is that it involves devising criteria for evaluating projects. The criteria must be measurable, not simply subjective, grounded in actual information, with the values, assumptions, priorities that they are based on explicitly outlined. This may involve examining how environmental impact assessments are conducted: are the measures they use appropriate? Can these EIA processes be themselves critiqued?
Activity:	Prepare a debate and/or position papers for the three contemporary views concerning dams: that they are beneficial to developing nations; that they have been damaging in the past, but in the future they can be managed better to provide benefits; that they are intrinsically harmful, and no more should be built.
Activity:	Develop a critique of publications that support the Bakun project, on the basis of the secondary literature concerning the environmental/social/ economic impacts of dams.
Activity:	Predictions of the economic viability of the Bakun Dam are speculative, given the major uncertainties associated with the project. What can past experience with dam projects suggest as to its potential economic outcomes?
Activity:	A similar assignment: what can previous experience with resettlement projects teach us regarding possible outcomes of resettlement for the Bakun project?