Water Governance - Challenges in Africa: Hydro-optimism or Hydro-pessimism?
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Main Author: Anne, Ibrahima (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bern Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften 2012
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Item Description:IBRAHIMA ANNE -- Introductory notes 11; PART 1: Water as a human right; MANUEL C. BRANCO AND PEDRO D. HENRIQUES -- The market economy and the human right to water in Africa 21; PAULA D. LOPES -- Implementation of the human right to water: Multi-level challenges 39; PART 2: Water governance and institutional issues; MATHIAS POLAK AND STEFAN LIEHR -- Theoretical reflections on the analysis of water governance in coupled social-ecological systems 65; SIGNE MARIE COLD-RAVNKILDE -- Between a rock and a hard place: Decentralization and struggles for water in Mali 81
HELEN BROWN -- Social learning and water-resource management in Southern Africa: Can interactive learning trigger changes in water management? 101DANIEL ALVARENGA -- How does the river flow? The Mphanda Nkuwa project and China's impact on Mozambique and Southern Africa's water and development 123; PART 3: Water supply and sanitation; ADRIANO BORDALO AND JOANA SAVVA-BORDALO -- The water question under extreme poverty: The example of Bolama, Guinea-Bissau (West Africa) 143; GODWIN UYI OJO -- The politics of water management in rural communities of Nigeria: Deep or shallow commitment? 165
PART 4: Hydropolitical risks and transboundary water politicsAGATHE MAUPIN -- From hydro-pessimism to hydro-optimismin Southern Africa: Hydropolitical risk as a tool for improving water resource management 197; IBRAHIMA ANNE -- Integrated water resources managementin the Senegal River basin 217; PART 5: Water and food nexus; NICO. H. VAN LEEUWEN -- Rainwater management in Africa: A green revolution to increase agricultural production 233; Notes on contributors 249
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (254 pages)
ISBN:9783035105186
3035105189

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