Sandström / Sandstrom / Jägerskog Land and Hydropolitics in the Nile River Basin

Challenges and new investments
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-1-317-41435-3
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 254 Seiten

Reihe: Earthscan Studies in Water Resource Management

The Nile River Basin supports the livelihoods of millions of people in Egypt, Ethiopia, Sudan and Uganda, principally as water for agriculture and hydropower. The resource is the focus of much contested development, not only between upstream and downstream neighbours, but also from countries outside the region. This book investigates the water, land and energy nexus in the Nile basin.

It explains how the current surge in land and energy investments, both by foreign actors as well as domestic investors, affects the hydropolitics in the region. It shows how the already strained transboundary relations in the region are being affected by investments in land for food, biofuel and cashcrops, through land "grabs" or acquisitions by countries in the Middle East, such as Jordan and the Gulf States, as well as by China. It assesses the emergence of outside actors (investors in the form of sovereign wealth funds, private corporations and national companies from outside of the region) and their effect in the basin. Overall, the book presents a range of perspectives, drawing on political science, international relations theory, sociology, history and political ecology.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sandström, Emil

Sandstrom, Emil

Jägerskog, Anders

Jagerskog, Anders

Oestigaard, Terje

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Umwelt- und Gesundheitspolitik
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltpolitik, Umweltprotokoll

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Changing Challenges: New Hydropolitical Landscapes in the Nile Basin

Emil Sandström, Anders Jägerskog and Terje Oestigaard

2. Dealing with Water: Emerging Land Investments and the Hydropolitical Landscape of the Nile Basin

Emil Sandström

3. Overseas Investment in Land and Challenges in the Nile Basin: Evident Links from the Middle East and North Africa Investment

Kyungmee Kim and Anders Jägerskog

4. The Gulf States in the Political Economy of the Nile Basin: a Historical Overview

Harry Verhoeven

5. Inward Investment in Sudan: the Case of Qatar

Martin Keulertz

6. Sudan, ‘Kingmaker’ in a New Nile Hydropolitics: Negotiating Water and Hydraulic Infrastructure to Expand Large-scale Irrigation

Ana Cascão and Alan Nicol

7. Transboundary Water Resources and the Political Economy of Large-scale Land Investments in the Nile: Sudan, Hydropolitics, and Arab Food Security

Ramy Lotfy Hanna

8. Dams, Water and Accountability in Uganda

David Ross Olanya

9. "Lease the Land, but Use the Water": The Case of Gambella, Ethiopia

Wondwosen Michago Seide

10. Lake Tana: Source of Disputes or Collaboration over the Blue Nile?

Mats Hårsmar, Emil Sandström and Atakilte Beyene

11. Water, National Identities and Hydropolitics in Egypt and Ethiopia

Terje Oestigaard

Über Autor(innen)

Emil Sandström is a Senior Researcher at the Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala, Sweden and Senior Lecturer and former Head of the Rural Development division at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences.

Anders Jägerskog is Counsellor for regional water issues in the Middle East and North Africa for the Embassy of Sweden in Amman, Jordan and Associate Professor at the School of Global Studies at Göteborg University, Sweden. He is former Head of the Transboundary Unit at the Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI).

Terje Oestigaard is a Senior Researcher at the Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala, Sweden and Docent in Archeology at Uppsala University.