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The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) will not only be
Africa's largest dam, but it is also essential for future
cooperation and development in the Nile River Basin and East
African region. This book, after setting out basin-level legal and
policy successes and failures of managing and sharing Nile waters,
articulates the opportunities and challenges surrounding the GERD
through multiple disciplinary lenses. It sets out its possibilities
as a basis for a new era of cooperation, its regional and global
implications, the benefits of cooperation and coordination in dam
filling, and the need for participatory and transparent decision
making. By applying law, political science and hydrology to sharing
water resources in general and to large-scale dam building, filling
and operating in particular, it offers concrete qualitative and
quantitative options that are essential to promote cooperation and
coordination in utilising and preserving Nile waters. The book
incorporates the economic dimension and draws on recent
developments including: the signing of a legally binding contract
by Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan to carry out an impact assessment
study; the possibility that the GERD might be partially operational
very soon, the completion of transmission lines from GERD to Addis
Ababa; and the announcement of Sudan to commence construction of
transmission lines from GERD to its main cities. The implications
of these are assessed and lessons learned for transboundary water
cooperation and conflict management.
The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) will not only be
Africa's largest dam, but it is also essential for future
cooperation and development in the Nile River Basin and East
African region. This book, after setting out basin-level legal and
policy successes and failures of managing and sharing Nile waters,
articulates the opportunities and challenges surrounding the GERD
through multiple disciplinary lenses. It sets out its possibilities
as a basis for a new era of cooperation, its regional and global
implications, the benefits of cooperation and coordination in dam
filling, and the need for participatory and transparent decision
making. By applying law, political science and hydrology to sharing
water resources in general and to large-scale dam building, filling
and operating in particular, it offers concrete qualitative and
quantitative options that are essential to promote cooperation and
coordination in utilising and preserving Nile waters. The book
incorporates the economic dimension and draws on recent
developments including: the signing of a legally binding contract
by Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan to carry out an impact assessment
study; the possibility that the GERD might be partially operational
very soon, the completion of transmission lines from GERD to Addis
Ababa; and the announcement of Sudan to commence construction of
transmission lines from GERD to its main cities. The implications
of these are assessed and lessons learned for transboundary water
cooperation and conflict management.
Climate change has an impact on the ability of transboundary water
management institutions to deliver on their respective mandates.
The starting point for this book is that actors within
transboundary water management institutions develop responses to
the climate change debate, as distinct from the physical phenomenon
of climate change. Actors respond to this debate broadly in three
distinct ways - adapt, resist (as in avoiding the issue) and
subvert (as in using the debate to fulfil their own agenda). The
book charts approaches which have been taken over the past two
decades to promote more effective water management institutions,
covering issues of conflict, cooperation, power and law. A new
framework for a better understanding of the interaction between
transboundary water management institutional resilience and global
change is developed through analysis of the way these institutions
respond to the climate change debate. This framework is applied to
six river case studies from Africa, Asia and the Middle East
(Ganges-Brahmaputra, Jordan, Mekong, Niger, Nile, Orange-Senqu)
from which learning conclusions and policy recommendations are
developed.
Climate change has an impact on the ability of transboundary water
management institutions to deliver on their respective mandates.
The starting point for this book is that actors within
transboundary water management institutions develop responses to
the climate change debate, as distinct from the physical phenomenon
of climate change. Actors respond to this debate broadly in three
distinct ways - adapt, resist (as in avoiding the issue) and
subvert (as in using the debate to fulfil their own agenda). The
book charts approaches which have been taken over the past two
decades to promote more effective water management institutions,
covering issues of conflict, cooperation, power and law. A new
framework for a better understanding of the interaction between
transboundary water management institutional resilience and global
change is developed through analysis of the way these institutions
respond to the climate change debate. This framework is applied to
six river case studies from Africa, Asia and the Middle East
(Ganges-Brahmaputra, Jordan, Mekong, Niger, Nile, Orange-Senqu)
from which learning conclusions and policy recommendations are
developed.
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