Land and Hydropolitics in the Nile River Basin: Challenges and New Investments

ISBN-13: 9781138921757 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 238 str.

Emil Sandstrom; Anders Jagerskog; Terje Oestigaard

Opis

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.

Recenzje

'[T]his book is an important contribution to the literature because it provides new critical insights on the effects of land investments, a topic missing from the literature, showing their impacts on the hydropolitical relations in the basin...the chapters...eloquently unfold to show the linkages between the Nile Basin, the Middle East and the major investors, and how important these linkages are in terms of virtual water trade.' - Hussam Hussein, International Journal of Water Resources Development, 2017

Spis treści

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