| Description |
1 online resource (179 p.) |
| Series |
Earthscan Series on Major River Basins of the World Ser |
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Earthscan Series on Major River Basins of the World Ser
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Chapter Photos -- Contributors -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- Introduction -- Notes -- References -- 2 Climate, Water and Land Resources: Diversity, Uses and Changes -- Introduction -- Climate -- Water Resources -- Water Availability -- Water Use -- Land Resources -- Geomorphology -- Soils -- Set 2 -- Soils With Poor Drainage Or Formed From River and Lake Deposits -- Set 3 -- Soils Conditioned By the Nature of the Mineral Parent Material |
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Set 4 -- Soils With Accumulation of Organic Matter in the Topsoil -- Set 5 -- Soils With Accumulation of Carbonates Or Salts -- Set 6 -- Soils With Accumulation of Clay in the Subsoil -- Set 7 -- Soils Dominated By Fe/Al Oxides -- Changing Land Uses -- Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- Note -- References -- 3 Hydropower Development: Economic and Environmental Benefits and Risks -- Introduction -- Current and Projected State of Energy and Hydropower -- Eastern Africa Power Pool -- Energy and Hydropower in Ethiopia -- Energy and Hydropower in Kenya -- Hydropower in the Omo-Turkana Basin |
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Hydropower Infrastructure: an Inventory -- Benefits of Hydropower Development -- Risks of Hydropower Development -- Indicators of Hydrological Alteration -- Conclusions -- Note -- References -- 4 Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Security -- Introduction -- Crop Production -- Traditional Agriculture in Transition -- Contemporary Rainfed Crop Production -- Irrigated Crop Production -- Traditional Flood-Based Farming Systems -- Irrigation in the Omo-Gibe Basin, Ethiopia -- Irrigation in the Turkana Basin, Kenya -- Trends: Contrasting Irrigation Developments in Ethiopia and Kenya -- Livestock |
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Mixed Crop-Livestock Dairy Production -- Agro-pastoral Livestock Production Systems -- Pastoral Livestock Production in Lake Turkana Basin -- Apiculture -- Fisheries -- Fisheries in the Omo Basin -- Fisheries in Lake Turkana -- Food and Nutrition Security -- Status of Food and Nutrition Security: Hunger and Malnutrition Prevail -- Food Trade -- Food Aid -- Policy and Institutional Aspects -- Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- References -- 5 Ecosystem Services in Changing Social-Ecological Systems -- Introduction -- Ecosystems -- ecosystem Services -- Provisioning Services |
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Regulating Services -- Cultural Services -- Changing Availability of Ecosystem Services -- Forest and Land Cover Change -- Changing Flow Dynamics -- Implications for Fisheries -- Ecosystem Management Pathways -- Reservoir Release Strategies (Environmental Flows) -- Risk Management -- Forest and Landscape Restoration -- Integrated Landscape Management -- Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 6 Resilience Dynamics in a Rapidly Changing Social-Ecological System: Shifting Inequalities in Ethiopia's Lower Omo Valley -- Introduction -- Methods |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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Resilience of What? The Lower Omo Social-Ecological System |
| Subject |
Water resources management-Omo River Watershed (Ethiopia and Kenya)
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Water resources management-Turkana, Lake, Watershed (Kenya and Ethiopia)
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Omo River Watershed (Ethiopia and Kenya)-Economic conditions
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Omo River Watershed (Ethiopia and Kenya)-Environmental conditions
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Turkana, Lake, Watershed (Kenya and Ethiopia)-Economic conditions
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Turkana, Lake, Watershed (Kenya and Ethiopia)-Environmental conditions
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
McCartney, Matthew
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Gibson, Julie
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| ISBN |
9781000509274 |
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1000509273 |
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