Nile River Basin [electronic resource] : ecohydrological challenges, climate change and hydropolitics / Assefa M. Melesse, Wossenu Abtew, Shimelis G. Setegn, editors.
Melesse, Assefa M. (Assefa Mekonnen), 1966-, editor of compilation.; Abtew, Wossenu, editor of compilation.; Setegn, Shimelis G., editor of compilation.
2014
QH541.15.E19
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Nile River Basin [electronic resource] : ecohydrological challenges, climate change and hydropolitics / Assefa M. Melesse, Wossenu Abtew, Shimelis G. Setegn, editors.
ISBN
9783319027203 electronic book
3319027204 electronic book
9783319027197
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02720-3
Published
Cham : Springer, 2014.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xv, 718 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-319-02720-3 doi
Call Number
QH541.15.E19
Dewey Decimal Classification
577.6
Summary
The book provides a comprehensive overview of the hydrology of the Nile River, especially the ecohydrological degradation and challenges the basin is facing, the impact of climate change on water availability and the transboundary water management issues. The book includes analysis and approaches that will help provide different insights into the hydrology of this complex basin, which covers 11 countries and is home to over 300 million people. The need for water-sharing agreements that reflect the current situations of riparian countries and are based on equitable water- sharing principles is stressed in many chapters. This book explores water resource availability and quality and their trends in the basin, soil erosion and watershed degradation at different scales, water and health, land use and climate change impact, transboundary issues and water management, dams, reservoirs and lakes. The link between watershed and river water quantity and quality is discussed pointing out the importance of watershed protection for better water resource management, water accessibility, institutional set-up and policy, water demand and management. The book also presents the water sharing sticking points in relation to historical treaties and the emerging water demands of the upstream riparian countries. The need for collaboration and identification of common ground to resolve the transboundary water management issues and secure a win-win is also indicated.
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Melesse, Assefa M. (Assefa Mekonnen), 1966-, editor of compilation.
Abtew, Wossenu, editor of compilation.
Setegn, Shimelis G., editor of compilation.
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Part I: Hydrology and Water Availability
The Nile River Basin
Streamflow Data Needs for Water Resources Management and Monitoring?Challenges: A Case Study of Wami River Sub-basin in Tanzania
Satellite Rainfall Products and their Reliability in the Blue Nile basin
Africa-Wide Monitoring of Small Surface Water Bodies Using Multi-Source Satellite Data: A Monitoring System for FEWS NET
Surface and Ground Water Resources of Ethiopia: Potentials and Challenges of Water Resources Development
Land and Water in the Nile basin
Part II: Soil erosion and Water Quality
Soil Erosion and Discharge in the Blue Nile Basin: Trends and Challenges
Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Soil Erosion in the Semi-humid Ethiopian Highlands: A Case Study of Debre Mawi Watershed
Modeling Sediments Dynamics: Effect of Land Use, Topography and Land Management in the Wami-Ruvu Basin Tanzania
Assessment of Soil Erosion in the Blue Nile Basin
Hydro-epidemiology of the Nile Basin: Understanding the Complex Linkages between Water and Infectious Diseases
Part III: Lakes and watersheds
Monitoring State of Biomass Recovery in the Blue Nile Basin Using Image Based Disturbance Index
Bathymetry, Lake Area and Volume Mapping: A Remote Sensing Perspective
Land Use and Land Cover Changes in Northern Kordofan State of Sudan: A Remotely-Sensed Data Analysis
Multi-Model Approach for Spatial Evapotranspiration Mapping: Comparison of Models Performance for Different Ecosystems
Modeling Rainfall Erosivity from Daily Rainfall Events, Upper Blue Nile Basin, Ethiopia
Part IV: Climate Change and Water Resources
Climate Change Impacts and Development Based Adaptation Pathway to the Nile River Basin
Climate Change Projections in the Upper Gilgel Abay River Catchment, Blue Nile Basin Ethiopia
Climate Change Impact on Water Resources and Adaptation Strategies in the Blue Nile River Basin
Climate change and Rangeland Degradation in Eastern Sudan: Which Adaptation Strategy Work Well?
Statistical Downscaling of Precipitation in the Upper Nile Use of Generalised Linear Models (GLMs) for the Kyoga Basin
Local and Indigenous Knowledge Systems in Subsistence Agriculture, Climate Risk Management and Mitigation of Community Vulnerability in Changing Climate, Lake Victoria Basin: Case Study of Rakai and Isingiro Districts, Uganda
Part V: Water Accessibility, institutional setup and policy
Processes of Institutional Change and Factors Influencing Collective Action in Local Water Resources Governance in the Blue Nile Basin of Ethiopia
Water Governance in the Nile Basin for Hydropower Development
Managing Rainwater for Resilient Dryland Systems in SSA: Review of evidences
Part VI: Transboundary Rivers, Water Sharing and Hydropolitics
Impact and Benefit Study of Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) during Impounding and Operation Phases on Downstream Structure in the Eastern Nile
Transboundary Rivers and the Nile
International Water Law Principles and Frameworks: Perspectives from the Nile River Basin
Supporting the Development of Efficient and Effective River Basin Organizations in Africa: What Steps Can Be Taken to Improve Transboundary Water Cooperation Between the Riparian States of the Nile?
Part VII: Watershed Services and water management
Payment for Watershed Services in the Mara River Basin: Part I - Institutions and Stakeholder Engagement
Payment for Watershed Services in the Mara River Basin: Part II - An Analysis of Stakeholders' Perceptions and Willingness to Implement
Climate Teleconnections and Water Management.

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