Williams / Mul / Biney The Volta River Basin

Water for Food, Economic Growth and Environment
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-1-317-47954-3
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 302 Seiten

Reihe: Earthscan Series on Major River Basins of the World

The Volta River Basin (VRB) is an important transboundary basin in West Africa that covers approximately 410,000 square kilometres across six countries: Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Mali and Togo. Its natural resources sustain the livelihoods of its population and contribute to economic development. This book provides a comprehensive, inter-disciplinary review and assessment of the issues and challenges faced.

The authors provide a science-based assessment of current and future scenarios of water availability and demands of key sectors, including agriculture and hydropower, and the environment under changing demographic, economic, social and climatic conditions. They also identify solutions and strategies that will allow available water resources to be sustainably used to improve agricultural productivity, food security and economic growth in the VRB. Overall, the work examines from a multi-disciplinary and multi-stakeholder perspective the solutions and strategies to improve the use of water and other natural resources in the VRB to achieve enhanced food security, livelihoods and economic growth.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Williams, Timothy O.

Mul, Marloes L.

Mul, Marloes

Biney, Charles A.

Smakhtin, Vladimir

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Sachbuch, Reise
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Limnologie (Süßwasser)
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1: Introduction

1. Introduction

Timothy O. Williams, Marloes L. Mul, Charles Biney and Vladimir Smakhtin

Part 2: Basin Resources: Trends, Drivers and Status

2. Socioeconomic Status, Trends and Drivers of Change

Shashidhara Kolavalli and Timothy O. Williams

3. Surface Water Resources of the Volta Basin

Marloes L. Mul, Raymond A. Kasei and Matthew McCartney

4. Groundwater Resources of the Volta Basin

Emmanuel Obuobie, Boubacar Barry and William Agyekum

5. Climate Variability and Change over the Volta River Basin

Mouhamadou B. Sylla, Frank O. Annor, Raymond A. Kasei and Mamadou L. Mbaye

6. Managing Floods and Droughts

Raymond A. Kasei, Barnabas Amisigo and Marloes L. Mul

Part 3: People, Policies and Institutions

7. Poverty, Vulnerability and Livelihoods in the Volta Basin: A Gendered Analysis

Amy Sullivan, Elsie Odonkor and Nicoline de Haan

8. Water Governance in the Volta Basin

Ben Ampomah, Winston Andah and Charles Biney

Part 4: Challenges and Opportunities in the Use of Water Resources

9. Improving Agriculture and Food Security in the Volta Basin

Augustine Ayantunde, Pamela G. Katic, Olufunke Cofie and Edward K. Abban

10. Urban and Industrial Development

Daniel Van Rooijen, Ben Ampomah, Josiane Nikiema, Yacouba Noël Coulibaly and Lydie Yiougo

11. Water-Food-Energy Nexus and Hydropower Development

Emmanuel O. Bekoe, Winston Andah, Frederick Y. Logah and Bedru B. Balana

Part 5: Balancing Development and Nature

12. Ecosystem Services in the Volta Basin

Fred Kizito and Bedru B. Balana

13. Environmental Flow Requirements in the Volta Basin

Marloes L. Mul and Yongxuan Gao

14. Water Quality and Public Health

Chris Gordon, Adelina Mensah, Josiane Nikiema and Pay Drechsel

15. Sustainable Agricultural Intensification in the Volta River Basin

Timothy O. Williams, Jennie Barron and Olufunke Cofie

Part 6: Governance and Livelihoods

16. Simulating Current and Future Volta Basin Water Development Scenarios

Aditya Sood, Ousmane Seidou, Gerald Forkuor, Frank O. Annor and Matthew McCartney

Über Autor(innen)

Timothy O. Williams is Director for Africa at the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), based in Accra, Ghana.

Marloes L. Mul is a Senior Researcher in Hydrology and Water Resources at the IWMI, Accra, Ghana.

Charles A. Biney is Acting Executive Director of the Volta Basin Authority based in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.

Vladimir Smakhtin is Head of the Water Availability, Risk and Resilience Research Department at IWMI, Colombo, Sri Lanka.