Water is perhaps the most strategic and precious resource on earth,
critical to the survival of nations and their people. However, as
water is becoming scarcer, other natural resources that depend on
it are also experiencing decline in quantity and quality, often
leading to conflicts in some transboundary watercourses. For many
reasons, these water conflicts risks are evident in Africa. This
monograph demonstrates that although water scarcity is a necessary
condition for interstate conflicts in Lake Chad, other critical
intervening variable such as the competitiveness of economic
livelihoods, nature of international boundaries and the weakness of
the supranational organization established to regulate the
exploitation of resources of the lake interact to engender
interstate conflicts in the region. The intricacy and dynamics of
these factors were analysed critically. The analysis should help
shed some light on the broader issue of hydroconflict, and should
be especially useful to scholars, teachers and professionals in
interested in hydropolitics, or anyone else who may be interested
in the role of water scarcity in the incidence of conflicts in
Transboundary water body.
General
Imprint: |
Lap Lambert Academic Publishing
|
Country of origin: |
Germany |
Release date: |
August 2010 |
First published: |
August 2010 |
Authors: |
Freedom Onuoha
|
Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 7mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
Pages: |
112 |
ISBN-13: |
978-3-8383-8908-0 |
Categories: |
Books >
Business & Economics >
Economics >
Political economy
|
LSN: |
3-8383-8908-5 |
Barcode: |
9783838389080 |
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