LEADER 06756nam 22008775 450 001 9910166955403321 005 20240307121546.0 010 $a9783319284804 010 $a3319284800 010 $a9783319504698 010 $a331950469X 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-319-50469-8 035 $a(CKB)3710000001041394 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-319-50469-8 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5577658 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5577658 035 $a(OCoLC)974207603 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6363154 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6363154 035 $a(OCoLC)1291317884 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/36756 035 $a(PPN)222237333 035 $a(ScCtBLL)7c2a2ea9-9509-4274-98c4-295ec8bd7bac 035 $a(ODN)ODN0010073182 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-319-28480-4 035 $a(oapen)doab36756 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001041394 100 $a20160822d2017 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn|008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aRiver Basin Development and Human Rights in Eastern Africa ? A Policy Crossroads /$fby Claudia J. Carr 205 $a1st ed. 2017. 210 $aCham$cSpringer Nature$d2017 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Springer,$d2017. 215 $a1 online resource (XIX, 240 p. 74 illus., 66 illus. in color.) 311 08$a9783319504681 311 08$a3319504681 327 $aChapter 1. At Stake with River Basin Development in Eastern Africa -- Chapter 2. The Persistent Paradigm for 'Modernizing' River Basins: Institutions and Policies in Ethiopia -- Chapter 3. The Seismic Threat to the Gibe III: A Disaster in Waiting -- Chapter 4. Transboundary Survival Systems: A Profile of Vulnerability -- Chapter 5. Components Of Catastrophe: Social And Environmental Consequences of Omo River Basin Development -- Chapter 6. The Rush to Rationalize: Public Policies and Impact Assessments -- Chapter 7. The Dassanech in the Lower Omo Basin: From Adaptation to Facing Devastation from 'Development' -- Chapter 8. Nyangatom Livelihood and the Omo Riverine Forest -- Chapter 9. Turkana Survival Systems at Lake Turkana: Vulnerability to Collapse from Omo Basin Development -- Chapter 10. Human Rights Violations and the Policy Crossroads -- Appendix A. Oil Exploration and Development in the Ethiopia-Kenya-South Sudan Transboundary Region; Joshua S. Dimon with Claudia Carr -- Appendix B. Species Collected in the Lowermost Omo Basin/Transboundary Region -- Appendix C. Reference set of Selected Major Figures. 330 $aThis 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 destruction and 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 assessment, cumulative effects of the Gibe III dam and its linked Ethiopia-Kenya energy transmission 'highway' project, key hydrologic and human ecological characteristics, major earthquake threat in the dam region and widespread expropriation and political repression. Violations of internationally recognized human rights, especially by the Ethiopian government but also the Kenyan government, are extensive and on the increase?with collaboration by the development banks, in breach of their own internal operational procedures. A policy crossroads has now emerged. The author presents the alternative to the present looming catastrophe?consideration of development suspension in order to undertake genuinely independent transboundary assessment and a plan for continued development action within a human rights framework?forging a sustainable futurefor the indigenous peoples now directly threatened and for their respective eastern Africa states. Claudia Carr?s book is a treasure of detailed information gathered over many years concerning river basin development of the Omo River in Ethiopia and its impact on the peoples of the lower Omo Basin and the Lake Turkana region in Kenya. It contains numerous maps, charts, and photographs not previously available to the public. The book is highly critical of the environmental and human rights implications of the Omo River hydropower projects on both the local ethnic communities in Ethiopia and on the downstream Turkana in Kenya. 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