Sharing Water in Southern Africa
Author : John Pallett
Publisher :
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 23,20 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Sustainable development
ISBN :
Author : John Pallett
Publisher :
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 23,20 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Sustainable development
ISBN :
Author : Msangi Josephine Phillip
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 25,32 MB
Release : 2013-08-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9400770979
This book offers a close examination of water scarcity as a developmental challenge facing member nations of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), the interventions that have been implemented to combat the situation and the challenges still outstanding. The first chapter paints the backdrop of the water scarcity problem, reviewing historical approaches from the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro to the Johannesburg World Summit on Sustainable Development (2002) to the United Nations Rio+20 Conference on Sustainable Development (2012), and recapping principles and agreements reached during and after these conferences. Chapter two examines the Southern Africa region’s efforts to combat water scarcity including principles, policies and strategies and the responsibility of each member to implement them. Written by the editor, J.P. Msangi, the chapter describes Namibia’s efforts to ensure management of scarce water. Beyond enacting management and pollution control regulations and raising public awareness, Namibia encourages research to ensure attainment of the requirements of both the SADC Protocol and its own water scarcity management laws. The next three chapters offer Namibia-based case studies on impacts of pollution on water treatment; on the effects of anthropogenic activities on water quality and on the effects of water transfers from dams upstream of Von Bach dam. The final chapter provides detailed summaries of the issues discussed in the book, highlighting conclusions and offering recommendations. Combating Water Scarcity in Southern Africa synthesizes issues pertinent to the SADC countries as well as to other regions, and offers research that up to now has not been conducted in Namibia.
Author : Southern African Development Community
Publisher : Southern African Research and Documentation Centre
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 13,69 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Author : Anthony Turton
Publisher : IWMI
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 49,77 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Water resources development
ISBN : 0620295198
Bringing contributions by a variety of authors together in one volume is part of an attempt to show that hydropolitics is a growing discipline in its own right. The prevailing definition of hydropolitics is widened to include the elements of scale and range. This is illustrated through a focus on theoretical and legal issues, case studies from Southern Africa and a proposed research agenda. The book is an important addition to the literature on hydropolitics.
Author :
Publisher : Southern African Research and Documentation Centre
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 37,69 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Water resources development
ISBN :
Author : Mikiyasu Nakayama
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 10,77 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Southern Africa is one of the world's most critical regions in terms of the management of shared water resources. This is due to a number of factors including: the large disparity in the availability of water between the relatively wet northern part of the region and the drier south; and the fact that the first transboundary transfer of water occurred in this region, between Lesotho and South Africa. This book examines both the risks and opportunities for water management in the new political environment in the region. Issues discussed include: the role of public participation, transboundary freshwater treaties; institutional aspects of international water system management; and hydropolitics.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 36,56 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Poverty
ISBN :
Author : SADC Water Resources Sector. Coordination Unit. Round Table Conference
Publisher :
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 10,38 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Water resources development
ISBN :
Author : Larry Anthony Swatuk
Publisher : Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 35,72 MB
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN :
Specifically, the collection interrogates the idea of the ‘boundary’.
Author : International Development Research Centre (Canada)
Publisher : IDRC
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 26,89 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Water resources development
ISBN : 088936804X
Water Management in Africa and the Middle East: Challenges and Opportunities