The Hydropolitics Of Southern Africa
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Author | : Anthony Turton |
Publisher | : IWMI |
Total Pages | : 137 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Water resources development |
ISBN | : 0620295198 |
Bringing contributions by a variety of authors together in one volume is part of an attempt to show that hydropolitics is a growing discipline in its own right. The prevailing definition of hydropolitics is widened to include the elements of scale and range. This is illustrated through a focus on theoretical and legal issues, case studies from Southern Africa and a proposed research agenda. The book is an important addition to the literature on hydropolitics.
Author | : Raj Bardouille |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2008-12-11 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 1443802271 |
Water is both an essential resource and a source of disease and conflict in contemporary Africa. And we begin to learn that far distant processes of consumption and pollution can have their impact on the water systems of Africa: global warming produced by the material culture of the first world threatens the weather systems and very survival of developing countries. In this context, this volume – the product of an expert meeting at Cornell University’s Institute for African Development – traces and tracks the dynamics of the contemporary hydropolitics of Africa. The volume contains a variety of approaches to the study of the organisation of water within Africa ranging from technical essays on water borne diseases, through institutional analyses of the legal and political arrangements around the distribution of water to social policy analyses of the unmet demand for water amongst Africa’s poor. Taken as a whole, the volume provides the reader with a useful reference work on the contemporary hydropolitics of Africa whilst simultaneously providing a lively introduction to a critical and much neglected area of African development policy.
Author | : WANJIKU KANIARU |
Publisher | : LAP Lambert Academic Publishing |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2010-12 |
Genre | : Natural resources |
ISBN | : 9783843372732 |
Towards the Establishment of an International Water Regime in Southern Africa Water security in the Southern African region is increasingly being acknowledged as an issue of real concern given rising demographic patterns and its indispensable role in the economic development of sectors such as industry and agriculture. Since the flow of water does not respect political boundaries, co-operation in measures leading to consultations, joint planning and water management frameworks remain the only options for a sustainable future in a prevailing emerging era of ecological interdependence. It is therefore imperative that basin-wide regimes redressing the institutional and legal framework governing water rights and allocation issues be established at the regional level in order to promote equity in the utilisation of shared water resources as envisaged in the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) Water Protocol.
Author | : Anthony Turton |
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Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Hydrology |
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Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 1998 |
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Author | : Msangi Josephine Phillip |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 2013-08-13 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9400770979 |
This book offers a close examination of water scarcity as a developmental challenge facing member nations of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), the interventions that have been implemented to combat the situation and the challenges still outstanding. The first chapter paints the backdrop of the water scarcity problem, reviewing historical approaches from the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro to the Johannesburg World Summit on Sustainable Development (2002) to the United Nations Rio+20 Conference on Sustainable Development (2012), and recapping principles and agreements reached during and after these conferences. Chapter two examines the Southern Africa region’s efforts to combat water scarcity including principles, policies and strategies and the responsibility of each member to implement them. Written by the editor, J.P. Msangi, the chapter describes Namibia’s efforts to ensure management of scarce water. Beyond enacting management and pollution control regulations and raising public awareness, Namibia encourages research to ensure attainment of the requirements of both the SADC Protocol and its own water scarcity management laws. The next three chapters offer Namibia-based case studies on impacts of pollution on water treatment; on the effects of anthropogenic activities on water quality and on the effects of water transfers from dams upstream of Von Bach dam. The final chapter provides detailed summaries of the issues discussed in the book, highlighting conclusions and offering recommendations. Combating Water Scarcity in Southern Africa synthesizes issues pertinent to the SADC countries as well as to other regions, and offers research that up to now has not been conducted in Namibia.
Author | : Inga M. Jacobs |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2012-11-02 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1441194215 |
Water resources and related issues are of great significance in 21st century politics. In Africa, for example, hydropolitics affect politics and policymaking at the local, national, and international levels. To investigate water politics, this unique work focuses on the issue transboundary water governance in Southern and Eastern Africa. Based on extensive field research, it offers a comparative study of the Orange Senqu and Nile basins in Africa, arguing that both causal and behavioral factors (such as localization and trust building) drive the multi-leveled development of cooperative management norms and foster the creation of regional communities of interest. The book combines theory, analysis, and fieldwork within the framework of Constructivism as well as a wide range of examples to identify and analyze the nature of norms in hydropolitics. By doing so, it will help shape the debate on how water conflict and cooperative governance should evolve and will interest anyone studying African politics, hydropolitics, and issues of development.
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Total Pages | : 12 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Water resources development |
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Author | : Hussein Solomon |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Riparian rights |
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Author | : Glenn-Marie Lange |
Publisher | : Edward Elgar Publishing |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
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"Based on the UN's handbook for environmental accounting, this book describes the implementation and policy application of water accounts in three African countries - Botswana, Namibia and South Africa - and discusses how they have been used by water managers."--BOOK JACKET.