Living in the shadow of the large dams : long term responses of downstream and lakeside communities of Ghana's Volta River Project / by Dzodzi Tsikata.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tsikata, Dzodzi.

Series:

African social studies series ; v. 11.

African social studies series, 1568-1203 ; v. 11

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Volta River Valley (Ghana)--Economic conditions.

Volta River Valley (Ghana).

Volta River Valley (Ghana)--Social conditions.

Ghana--Economic policy.

Ghana.

Volta River Project (Ghana).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (463 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book on dam-affected communities of the Volta River Project breaks with the mould and tackles the question of long term environmental and socio-economic impacts and responses of two often neglected groups of communities- the downstream and lakeside communities.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

Abbreviations and acronyms

Glossary

Changes in the Ghanaian Currency (1958-2002)

Acknowledgements

Chapter One: Introduction

2. The National Context

3. The Conceptual Framework and Research Methods

4. The Book's Sources

5. The Structure of the Book

Chapter Two: The Volta River Project: Historical Perspectives

1. Introduction

2. The Players and the Volta River Project

3. The Volta River Project: Conception, Planning and Implementation (1915-1966)

4. The Volta River Project as Agreed and Executed

5. Assessing the Terms of the Volta River Project

6. The Volta River and Dam-Affected Communities: Predicted Impacts and Recommendations

7. Summary and Conclusions

Chapter Three: The Lower Volta and the Volta River Project: Dam Impacts and Environmental Change

2. The Lower Volta in The 50s and 60s

3. Political and Social Institutions

4. The Economy and Livelihood Activities of the Lower Volta

5. The Lower Volta in the 1960s: Growth of Trading, Artisanal Activities and Waged Employment

6. The Post-Akosombo Dam Situation: Impacts of the Volta River Project

Chapter Four: State Policy and Community Responses: The politics of reluctant selective action and ineffectual activism

2. The Institutional Framework for Addressing Dam Impacts: The VRA's Legal and Institutional Character

3. The VRA as Resettler

4. The VRA and Migrant Fisher-Folk and their Communities: From Promoting Fisheries to Environmental Protection

5. Downstream Communities

6. Responses to Dam Impacts and State and VRA Policies: The Politics of Compensation and Development Projects

7. Summary and Conclusions.

Chapter Five: Livelihoods in Times of Stress: Long term Responses to Environmental Change at Mepe and Sokpoe

2. Background to the Research Communities: Mepe and Sokpoe

3. Migration and Livelihoods at Mepe and Sokpoe

4. Squeezing Water out of Stone?

5. Multiple Livelihood Activities at Mepe And Sokpoe

6. Summary and Conclusions

Chapter Six: The Social Relations of Livelihoods at Mepe and Sokpoe

2. Household Relations and Livelihoods

3. Kinship and Livelihoods

4. Labour Relations outside the household: Using the labour of others

5. Acquiring Support Through the Membership of Formal and Informal Associations and Networks

6. Livelihoods and Inter-Generational Relations: The Situation of Young People

Chapter Seven: Responses to the Volta River Project: Voluntary Migration and the Establishment of Lakeside Settlements

2. The Early Period of Migration and the Establishment of Settlements

3. Political, Judicial and Social Institutions at Surveyor Line, Kudikope and Kpando Torkor

4. Community Relations in Migrant Settlements

5. Migrant Settlements and the Different Players in their Environment

6. Migrants and their Hometowns

Chapter Eight: From Multiple Activities to Group Specialisation: Livelihoods at Kpando Torkor, Surveyor Line and Kudikope

2. Migrant Livelihoods around the Volta Lake: Historical Perspectives

3. The Organisation of Livelihoods activities around the Lake

4. Gender Relations and Marital Politics in the Organisation of Livelihoods in Migrant Settlements

5. Labour Relations Outside the Household in the Organisation of Livelihoods: Gender and Class in Practice

6. Child Labour in Migrant Communities.

7. Older Migrants and the Decline in Livelihoods around the Volta Lake

8. Summary and Conclusions

Chapter Nine: Concluding Chapter

2. The Volta River Project in Wider Perspective

3. Summary Of Main Arguments And Findings

4. Conceptual And Policy Implications

References

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [417]-434) and index.

ISBN:

1-281-38431-3

9786611384319

90-474-0655-9

OCLC:

290556544