The hydropolitics of Africa :: a contemporary challenge /

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 thre...

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Körperschaft: Cornell University. Institute for African Development
Weitere Verfasser: Kitissou, Marcel
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Newcastle, UK : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2007.
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Zusammenfassung: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 Universitys 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 Africas 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.
Beschreibung:Title from PDF title page (viewed on Apr 24, 2013).
"It is the outcome of a specialist meeting at the Institute for African Development at Cornell University."--Preface
Beschreibung:1 online resource (x, 344 pages) : illustrations, maps
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9781443802277
1443802271

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