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The Politics of Water in Africa: Norms, Environmental Regions and Transboundary Cooperation in the Orange-Senqu and Nile Rivers
Author(s): Inga M. Jacobs (Author)
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
- Publication Date: 13 Sept. 2012
- Language: English
- Print length: 256 pages
- ISBN-10: 1441149821
- ISBN-13: 9781441149824
Book Description
Water resources and related issues are of great significance in 21st century politics. In Africa, for example, hydropolitics affect politics and policymaking at the local, national, and international levels. To investigate water politics, this unique work focuses on the issue transboundary water governance in Southern and Eastern Africa. Based on extensive field research, it offers a comparative study of the Orange Senqu and Nile basins in Africa, arguing that both causal and behavioral factors (such as localization and trust building) drive the multi-leveled development of cooperative management norms and foster the creation of regional communities of interest. The book combines theory, analysis, and fieldwork within the framework of Constructivism as well as a wide range of examples to identify and analyze the nature of norms in hydropolitics. By doing so, it will help shape the debate on how water conflict and cooperative governance should evolve and will interest anyone studying African politics, hydropolitics, and issues of development.
Editorial Reviews
Review
[Jacobs’] empirical materials are rich, and the book provides a good introduction to the international dimension of these issues. * Foreign Affairs *
About the Author
Inga Jacobs is a Senior Researcher at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Pretoria, South Africa. Dr Jacobs earned her PhD at the School of International Relations, University of St-Andrews, Scotland, and specializes in transboundary water governance and institutional development in Africa, looking at co-operative governance in shared river basins in the Southern African region in particular.
