Land and hydropolitics in the Nile River basin : challenges and new investments / edited by Emil Sandström, Anders Jägerskog and Terje Oestigaard.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sandström, Emil, editor.

Jägerskog, Anders, editor.

Oestigaard, Terje.

Series:

Earthscan studies in water resource management

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Water-supply--Nile River Watershed--Management.

Water-supply.

Water-supply--Political aspects--Nile River Watershed.

Water security--Political aspects--Nile River Watershed.

Water security.

Food security--Nile River Watershed.

Food security.

Water-supply--Political aspects.

Management.

Nile River Watershed.

Physical Description:

xv, 238 pages : maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2016.

Summary:

The Nile River Basin supports the livelihoods of millions of people in Egypt, Ethiopia, Sudan and Uganda, principally as water for agriculture and hydropower. The resource is the focus of much contested development, not only between upstream and downstream neighbours, but also from countries outside the region. This book investigates the water, land and energy nexus in the Nile Basin. It explains how the current surge in land and energy investments, both by foreign actors as well as domestic investors, affects already strained transboundary relations in the region and how investments are intertwined within wider contexts of Nile Basin history, politics and economy. Overall, the book presents a range of perspectives, drawing on political science, international relations theory, sociology, history and political ecology. Book jacket.

Contents:

Changing challenges : new hydropolitical landscapes in the Nile basin / Emil Sandström, Anders Jägerskog and Terje Oestigaard

Dealing with water : emerging land investments and the hydropolitical landscape of the Nile basin / Emil Sandström

Overseas investment in land and challenges in the Nile basin : evident links from the Middle East and North Africa investment / Kyungmee Kim and Anders Jägerskog

The Gulf States in the political economy of the Nile basin : a historical overview / Harry Verhoeven

Inward investment in Sudan : the case of Qatar / Martin Keulertz

Sudan, "kingmaker" in a new Nile hydropolitics : negotiating water and hydraulic infrastructure to expand large-scale irrigation / Ana Cascão and Alan Nicol

Transboundary water resources and the political economy of large-scale land investments in the Nile : Sudan, hydropolitics, and Arab food security / Ramy Lotfy Hanna

Dams, water and accountability in Uganda / David Ross Olanya

"Lease the land, but use the water" : the case of Gambella, Ethiopia / Wondwosen Michago Seide

Lake tana : source of disputes or collaboration over the blue Nile? / Mats Hårsmar, Emil Sandström and Atakilte Beyene

Water, national identities and hydropolitics in Egypt and Ethiopia / Terje Oestigaard.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138921757

1138921750

OCLC:

948878655