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Author Yohannes, Okbazghi

Title Water Resources and Inter-Riparian Relations in the Nile Basin : the Search for an Integrative Discourse
Published Ithaca : State University of New York Press, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (270 pages)
Series SUNY series in Global Politics
SUNY series in global politics.
Contents Water Resources and Inter-Riparian Relations in the Nile Basin -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Toward a Provisional Understanding -- Framing the Challenges -- The Demographic Challenge -- The Economic Challenge -- The Hydrological and Ecological Challenge -- Urbanization, Pollution, and the Challenge of Clean Water -- The Governance Challenge -- The Neoliberalist Challenge -- Conclusion -- 2. Egypt: Gift of the Nile -- The Elusive Quest for Food Security and the Modernization Imperatives -- After Modernization -- The Puzzle
3. The Sudan: A Hydrographic Bridge?The Beginnings -- An Arab “Breadbasket�? -- The Politics of Internal Governance -- The Sudd and the Jonglei Canal:Twin Crimes Against Nature and Society -- The Puzzle -- 4. Ethiopia: Land of the “Blue Gold� -- The Hydrological Context -- The Elusive Quest for Food Security and the Modernization Imperatives -- The Politics of Internal Governance -- The Eritrean Dimension of Nile Waters -- The Puzzle -- 5. The Middle Nile “Squatters� Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda -- The Historical Context
The Elusive Quest for Food Security and the Modernization ImperativesAquatic Resources and the Search for More Food Security -- The Puzzle -- 6. The Uppermost Riparian States: Rwanda, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of Congo -- Problematizing Watershed Integrity -- The Ethnography of Hydrology and Food Security -- The Puzzle -- 7. Thinking about the Future -- Toward an Integrative Epistemology and Regional Authenticity -- Toward a Nile Family of Nations -- Toward Holistic Economies -- Toward a Politics of Self-Reliance -- Conclusion -- Notes
Bibliography ""Bibliography""""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""
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Subject Food supply -- Africa
Regional planning -- Nile River Watershed
Riparian areas -- Political aspects -- Africa
Water-supply -- Political aspects -- Nile River Watershed
Water-supply -- Nile River Watershed -- Management
Water-supply -- Political aspects
Water-supply -- Management
Regional planning
Food supply
Ecology
SUBJECT Nile River Watershed -- Environmental conditions
Subject Nile River Watershed
Africa
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780791478547
0791478548