River Basin Development and Human Rights in Eastern Africa — A Policy Crossroads
This book is open access under a CC BY-NC 2.5 license. This book offers a devastating look at deeply flawed development processes driven by international finance, African governments and the global consulting industry. It examines major river basin development underway in the semi-arid borderlands o...
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Table of 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.