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Water Scarcity and Conflict in African River Basins - The Hydropolitical Landscape (Hardcover)
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Water Scarcity and Conflict in African River Basins - The Hydropolitical Landscape (Hardcover)
Series: Earthscan Studies in Water Resource Management
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The book presents a critical and comparative analysis of the
hydropolitical landscape of African transboundary river basins
which, for much of the past century, have been affected by water
scarcity. River and lake basins can become a source of tension and
conflict due to a complicated mix of environmental, demographic,
diplomatic, historical and geopolitical factors. This book,
however, specifically focuses on the important, and often under
looked, role played by scarcity in generating or exacerbating
conflicts in shared river basins. Asserting that transboundary
river basins tie states into a web of interdependence, this book
raises awareness of how water scarcity, or the depletion of water
resources, complicates this relationship as nations are forced to
look beyond their own borders to meet the demand for water to
satisfy multiple needs. Taking a comparative approach, it examines
three shared basins: the Orange-Senqu, the Nile and the Niger River
basins. While situated in different regions, all three basins are
marked by serious environmental challenges that are detrimental to
combustible hydropolitics over such shared water resources and they
provide fascinating insights into the links between climate
variability and change, water resources, human security, conflict,
adaptation and regime capacity. Overall, this book argues that
conflict over transboundary resources can be prevented given the
establishment of norms, rules, and the role of external actors that
help regulate state behaviour and control their impacts. This book
will be of great interest to students and scholars of water
resource management, hydropolitics, environmental conflict,
resource scarcity and international relations. It will also be of
interest to policymakers involved in transboundary water resource
governance.
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