Governing the Nile River basin : the search for a new legal regime / Mwangi S. Kimenyi and John Mukum Mbaku.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kimenyi, Mwangi S., 1956- author.

Mbaku, John Mukum, 1950- author.

Contributor:

Brookings Institution, issuing body.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Watershed management--Law and legislation--Nile River Watershed.

Watershed management.

Water rights--Nile River Watershed.

Water rights.

Riparian rights--Nile River Watershed.

Riparian rights.

Watershed management--Law and legislation.

Nile River Watershed.

Physical Description:

xi, 146 pages : map ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, [2015]

Summary:

"Written by scholars trained in economics and law, and with significant experience in African political economy, this book explores new ways to deal with conflict over the allocation of the waters of the Nile River and its tributaries. The monograph provides policymakers in the Nile River riparian states and other stakeholders with practical and effective policy options for dealing with what has become a very contentious problem--the effective management of the waters of the Nile River. The analysis is quite rigorous but also extremely accessible"--Publisher's website

Contents:

The political economy of transboundary water resource management in Africa

Physical description of the watercourse and basin states

Setting the stage for conflict in the Nile River basin

The Nile Waters Agreement : a critical analysis

Theories of treaty sucession and modern Nile governance

International water law and the Nile River basin

The Nile Basin Initiative

The Cooperative Framework Agreement : a new legal regime for the Nile River?

Egypt, Ethiopia, and the Nile River

The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam

Governing the Nile River basin : a way forward

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-139) and index.

ISBN:

0815726554

9780815726555

OCLC:

898910828