Argues for new water policies in the Nile River Basin.
Author(s): Okbazghi Yohannes
Series: S U N Y Series in Global Politics
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Year: 2008
Language: English
Commentary: 30287
Pages: 270
Water Resources and Inter-Riparian Relations in the Nile Basin......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 10
Framing the Challenges......Page 14
The Demographic Challenge......Page 20
The Economic Challenge......Page 25
The Hydrological and Ecological Challenge......Page 29
Urbanization, Pollution, and the Challenge of Clean Water......Page 35
The Governance Challenge......Page 38
The Neoliberalist Challenge......Page 41
Conclusion......Page 44
2. Egypt: Gift of the Nile......Page 46
The Elusive Quest for Food Security and the Modernization Imperatives......Page 47
After Modernization......Page 59
The Puzzle......Page 66
The Beginnings......Page 70
An Arab “Breadbasket”?......Page 72
The Politics of Internal Governance......Page 78
The Sudd and the Jonglei Canal:Twin Crimes Against Nature and Society......Page 84
The Puzzle......Page 88
The Hydrological Context......Page 92
The Elusive Quest for Food Security and the Modernization Imperatives......Page 95
The Politics of Internal Governance......Page 101
The Eritrean Dimension of Nile Waters......Page 106
The Puzzle......Page 109
The Historical Context......Page 114
The Elusive Quest for Food Security and the Modernization Imperatives......Page 116
Aquatic Resources and the Search for More Food Security......Page 139
The Puzzle......Page 153
Problematizing Watershed Integrity......Page 158
The Ethnography of Hydrology and Food Security......Page 160
The Puzzle......Page 173
7. Thinking about the Future......Page 176
Toward an Integrative Epistemology and Regional Authenticity......Page 177
Toward a Nile Family of Nations......Page 191
Toward Holistic Economies......Page 194
Toward a Politics of Self-Reliance......Page 201
Conclusion......Page 212
Notes......Page 214
Bibliography......Page 232
B......Page 254
D......Page 255
H......Page 256
L......Page 257
N......Page 259
S......Page 264
T......Page 265
U......Page 266
W......Page 267
Y......Page 269
