Development Of The Volta River Basin
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Author | : Timothy O. Williams |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 2016-09-19 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 131747953X |
The Volta River Basin (VRB) is an important transboundary basin in West Africa that covers approximately 410,000 square kilometres across six countries: Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Mali and Togo. Its natural resources sustain the livelihoods of its population and contribute to economic development. This book provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary review and assessment of the issues and challenges faced. The authors provide a science-based assessment of current and future scenarios of water availability, the demands of key sectors, including agriculture and hydropower, and the environment under changing demographic, economic, social and climatic conditions. They also identify solutions and strategies that will allow available water resources to be sustainably used to improve agricultural productivity, food security and economic growth in the VRB. Overall, the work examines from a multidisciplinary and multi-stakeholder perspective the solutions and strategies to improve the use of water and other natural resources in the VRB to achieve enhanced food security, livelihoods and economic growth.
Author | : Timothy O. Williams |
Publisher | : Earthscan Major River Basins o |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781138900240 |
15 Sustainable agricultural intensification in the Volta River Basin -- Part VI Governance and livelihoods -- 16 Simulating current and future Volta Basin water development scenarios -- Index.
Author | : Christopher Gordon |
Publisher | : VOLTA Basin Research Project University of Ghana |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Sustainable agriculture |
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Author | : Gold Coast |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 11 |
Release | : 1952 |
Genre | : Aluminum industry and trade |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Marloes Mul, Emmanuel Obuobie |
Publisher | : International Water Management Institute (IWMI) |
Total Pages | : 82 |
Release | : 2015-02-01 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 9290908297 |
Author | : Bryan R. Davies |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 788 |
Release | : 2013-03-09 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9401732906 |
Our understanding of the ecology of running waters has come a long way during the past few years. From being a largely descriptive subject, with a few under tones concerned with such things as fisheries, pollution or control of blackflies, it has evolved into a discipline with hypotheses, such as the River Continuum Concept (Vannote et a/. 1980), and even a book suggesting that it offers opportunity for the testing of ecological theory (Barnes & Minshall 1983). However, perusal of the literature reveals that, although some of the very early studies were concerned with large rivers (references in Hynes 1970), the great mass of the work that has been done on running water has been on streams and small rivers, and information on larger rivers is either on such limited topics as fisheries or plankton, scattered among the journals, or not available to the general limnologist. The only exceptions are a few books in this series of publications, such as those on the Nile (Rz6ska 1976), the Volga (Morduckai Boltovskoi 1979) and the Amazon {Sioli 1984), and the recent compendium by Whitton (1984) on European rivers, among which there are a few that rate as large.
Author | : Matthew McCartney |
Publisher | : IWMI |
Total Pages | : 46 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9290907649 |
The Volta River is one of the major rivers in Africa. In this study, a dynamic regional climate model (CCLM), a hydrological model (SWAT) and a water resource model (WEAP) were used to provide an assessment of one downscaled ‘middle impact’ climate change scenario on the performance of existing and planned irrigation and hydropower schemes. The results indicate that, by the middle of the twenty-first century, altered climate is likely to undermine the technical performance of existing and planned reservoirs, which will, in turn, affect development outcomes. Future water resources development in the basin requires interventions that bolster resilience and water security. Much more systematic planning of water storage, greater cooperation between the riparian states and consideration of innovative approaches to water storage are needed.
Author | : Taylor & Francis Group |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 2020-12-18 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780367736910 |
The Volta River Basin (VRB) is an important transboundary basin in West Africa that covers approximately 410,000 square kilometres across six countries: Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Mali and Togo. Its natural resources sustain the livelihoods of its population and contribute to economic development. This book provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary review and assessment of the issues and challenges faced. The authors provide a science-based assessment of current and future scenarios of water availability, the demands of key sectors, including agriculture and hydropower, and the environment under changing demographic, economic, social and climatic conditions. They also identify solutions and strategies that will allow available water resources to be sustainably used to improve agricultural productivity, food security and economic growth in the VRB. Overall, the work examines from a multidisciplinary and multi-stakeholder perspective the solutions and strategies to improve the use of water and other natural resources in the VRB to achieve enhanced food security, livelihoods and economic growth.
Author | : Patrick Obeng-Asiedu |
Publisher | : Peter Lang Publishing |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
Freshwater is needed in every aspect of life and is probably the most fundamental resource in sustaining life. It has been and will remain a key determinant of population growth and distribution, social and political organization and the quality of life. The aim of this study is to evaluate the costs and benefits as well as the tradeoffs and complementarities across water using sectors in the Volta River basin, notably Burkina Faso and Ghana. The model used was coded in the modeling language of the General Algebraic Modeling System. The author points out that profits per unit of water and hectare vary by crop and that liberalizing crop patterns could increase farmer profits from crop production. The study shows that increasing irrigated areas through inefficient water use systems in the basin will effectively render un-operational, the small hydropower projects in Burkina Faso and reduce the amount of power that the Akosombo reservoir can generate per month.
Author | : Clark University (Worcester, Mass.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 1986 |
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