Land and Hydropolitics in the Nile River Basin - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Land and Hydropolitics in the Nile River Basin write by Emil Sandstrom. This book was released on 2016-08-05. Land and Hydropolitics in the Nile River Basin available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Nile River Basin supports the livelihoods of millions of people in Egypt, Ethiopia, Sudan and Uganda, principally as water for agriculture and hydropower. The resource is the focus of much contested development, not only between upstream and downstream neighbours, but also from countries outside the region. This book investigates the water, land and energy nexus in the Nile Basin. It explains how the current surge in land and energy investments, both by foreign actors as well as domestic investors, affects already strained transboundary relations in the region and how investments are intertwined within wider contexts of Nile Basin history, politics and economy. Overall, the book presents a range of perspectives, drawing on political science, international relations theory, sociology, history and political ecology.
Nile River Basin
Nile River Basin - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Nile River Basin write by Assefa M. Melesse. This book was released on 2014-02-13. Nile River Basin available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The book provides a comprehensive overview of the hydrology of the Nile River, especially the ecohydrological degradation and challenges the basin is facing, the impact of climate change on water availability and the transboundary water management issues. The book includes analysis and approaches that will help provide different insights into the hydrology of this complex basin, which covers 11 countries and is home to over 300 million people. The need for water-sharing agreements that reflect the current situations of riparian countries and are based on equitable water- sharing principles is stressed in many chapters. This book explores water resource availability and quality and their trends in the basin, soil erosion and watershed degradation at different scales, water and health, land use and climate change impact, transboundary issues and water management, dams, reservoirs and lakes. The link between watershed and river water quantity and quality is discussed pointing out the importance of watershed protection for better water resource management, water accessibility, institutional set-up and policy, water demand and management. The book also presents the water sharing sticking points in relation to historical treaties and the emerging water demands of the upstream riparian countries. The need for collaboration and identification of common ground to resolve the transboundary water management issues and secure a win-win is also indicated.
The Nile Basin
The Nile Basin - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Nile Basin write by John Waterbury. This book was released on 2008-10-01. The Nile Basin available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The supply and management of fresh water for the world’s billions of inhabitants is likely to be one of the most daunting challenges of the coming century. For countries that share river basins with others, questions of how best to use and protect precious water resources always become entangled in complex political, legal, environmental, and economic considerations. This book focuses on the issues that face all international river basins by examining in detail the Nile Basin and the ten countries that lay claim to its waters. John Waterbury applies collective action theory and international relations theory to the challenges of the ten Nile nations. Confronting issues ranging from food security and famine prevention to political stability, these countries have yet to arrive at a comprehensive understanding of how to manage the Nile’s resources. Waterbury proposes a series of steps leading to the formulation of environmentally sound policies and regulations by individual states, the establishment of accords among groups of states, and the critical participation of third-party sources of funding like the World Bank. He concludes that if there is to be a solution to the dilemmas of the Nile Basin countries, it must be based upon contractual understandings, brokered by third-party funders, and based on the national interests of each basin state. “This excellent book makes a significant contribution to the rational discussion of Nile conflicts and should be helpful to many of the other 282 international river basins facing similar problems.”—Peter P. Rogers, Harvard University
Hydropolitics in the Nile River Basin
Hydropolitics in the Nile River Basin - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hydropolitics in the Nile River Basin write by Ana Cascao. This book was released on 2014-05-30. Hydropolitics in the Nile River Basin available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Ana Cascao provides an original and critical account of the contemporary hydropolitics of the Nile River Basin, focussing in particular on the post-colonial era and taking into account the crucial changes in the regional and national political economies that have occured since the mid 1990s.
The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam and the Nile Basin
The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam and the Nile Basin - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam and the Nile Basin write by Zeray Yihdego. This book was released on 2017-10-31. The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam and the Nile Basin available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) will not only be Africa’s largest dam, but it is also essential for future cooperation and development in the Nile River Basin and East African region. This book, after setting out basin-level legal and policy successes and failures of managing and sharing Nile waters, articulates the opportunities and challenges surrounding the GERD through multiple disciplinary lenses. It sets out its possibilities as a basis for a new era of cooperation, its regional and global implications, the benefits of cooperation and coordination in dam filling, and the need for participatory and transparent decision making. By applying law, political science and hydrology to sharing water resources in general and to large-scale dam building, filling and operating in particular, it offers concrete qualitative and quantitative options that are essential to promote cooperation and coordination in utilising and preserving Nile waters. The book incorporates the economic dimension and draws on recent developments including: the signing of a legally binding contract by Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan to carry out an impact assessment study; the possibility that the GERD might be partially operational very soon, the completion of transmission lines from GERD to Addis Ababa; and the announcement of Sudan to commence construction of transmission lines from GERD to its main cities. The implications of these are assessed and lessons learned for transboundary water cooperation and conflict management.
