| 书目名称 | River Basin Development and Human Rights in Eastern Africa — A Policy Crossroads | | 编辑 | Claudia J. Carr | | 视频video | | | 概述 | This is an open access book.Only book to analyze the vulnerability of ethnic groups in the aridic Ethiopia-South Sudan-Kenya border region.Reflects years of research, with the participation of local r | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | 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 of Ethiopia, Kenya and South Sudan and its disastrous human rights consequences for a half-million indigenous people. The volume traces the historical origins of Gibe III megadam construction along the Omo River in Ethiopia—in turn, enabling irrigation for commercial-scale agricultural development and causing radical reduction of downstream Omo and (Kenya‘s) Lake Turkana waters. Presenting case studies of indigenous Dasanech and northernmost Turkana livelihood systems and Gibe III linked impacts on them, the author predicts agropastoral and fishing economic collapse, region-wide hunger with exposure to disease epidemics, irreversible natural resource destructionand cross-border interethnic armed conflict spilling into South Sudan. The book identifies fundamental failings of government and development bank impact assessments, including their distortion or omission of mandated transboundary | | 出版日期 | Book‘‘‘‘‘‘‘‘ 2017 | | 关键词 | Consequences for the Ilemi Triangle and the Broader Region; Consequences for the Lower Omo River Basi | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50469-8 | | isbn_ebook | 978-3-319-50469-8 | | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017 |
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