River basin development and human rights in Eastern Africa : a policy crossroads /: a policy crossroads. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Claudia J. Carr.
• Authors: Carr, Claudia J
• Contents: Chapter 1. At Stake with River Basin Development in Eastern Africa -- Chapter 2. The Persistent Paradigm for 'Modernizing' River Basins: Institutions and Policies in Ethiopia -- Chapter 3. The Seismic Threat to the Gibe III: A Disaster in Waiting -- Chapter 4. Transboundary Survival Systems: A Profile of Vulnerability -- Chapter 5. Components Of Catastrophe: Social And Environmental Consequences of Omo River Basin Development -- Chapter 6. The Rush to Rationalize: Public Policies and Impact Assessments -- Chapter 7. The Dassanech in the Lower Omo Basin: From Adaptation to Facing Devastation from 'Development' -- Chapter 8. Nyangatom Livelihood and the Omo Riverine Forest -- Chapter 9. Turkana Survival Systems at Lake Turkana: Vulnerability to Collapse from Omo Basin Development -- Chapter 10. Human Rights Violations and the Policy Crossroads -- Appendix A. Oil Exploration and Development in the Ethiopia-Kenya-South Sudan Transboundary Region; Joshua S. Dimon with Claudia Carr -- Appendix B. Species Collected in the Lowermost Omo Basin/Transboundary Region -- Appendix C. Reference set of Selected Major Figures.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Springer Open
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (xix, 240 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 341.48; Water resources development -- Social aspects -- Africa, East; Dams -- Social aspects -- Africa, East; Human geography; Law; Dams -- Social aspects; Human geography; Water resources development -- Social aspects; Law; Human Rights; Human Geography; Ethics; Sustainable Development; Anthropology; Development Economics; Omo River (Ethiopia and Kenya); Africa, East; Africa -- Omo River; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319504698; 9783319284804; 3319284800; 9783319284781; 3319284789
• Related ISBNs: 331950469X; 3319504681; 9783319504681
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