Author: Prosper Bazaanah
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Water-supply
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Community Water Governance for Sustainable Local Development in Northern Ghana
Author: Prosper Bazaanah
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Water-supply
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Water-supply
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Handbook of Research on Resource Management and the Struggle for Water Sustainability in Africa
Author: Nojiyeza, Innocent Simphiwe
Publisher: IGI Global
ISBN: 1799888118
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 437
Book Description
Access to water and sanitation remains a critical challenge in various countries in Africa. The crisis remains the crisis of governance rather than the physical and economic scarcity. In most countries, water is realized as a human right and subsidies are provided for the indigent households. The tricky issue in rural areas remains an issue of access that is often linked to willingness and ability to pay for the installation and daily consumption. The Handbook of Research on Resource Management and the Struggle for Water Sustainability in Africa presents practical examples of integrated water resources management (IWRM) implementation in African countries. It further addresses the contemporary issues of alternative energy as part of climate change mitigation and utilizes case studies to examine how communities adapt to climate change. Covering topics such as climate justice, ecological governance, and political ecology, this major reference work is a dynamic resource for government officials, sociologists, climate scientists, activists, students and educators of higher education, academicians, and researchers in the fields of social sciences, government, developmental studies, international relations, and political science.
Publisher: IGI Global
ISBN: 1799888118
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 437
Book Description
Access to water and sanitation remains a critical challenge in various countries in Africa. The crisis remains the crisis of governance rather than the physical and economic scarcity. In most countries, water is realized as a human right and subsidies are provided for the indigent households. The tricky issue in rural areas remains an issue of access that is often linked to willingness and ability to pay for the installation and daily consumption. The Handbook of Research on Resource Management and the Struggle for Water Sustainability in Africa presents practical examples of integrated water resources management (IWRM) implementation in African countries. It further addresses the contemporary issues of alternative energy as part of climate change mitigation and utilizes case studies to examine how communities adapt to climate change. Covering topics such as climate justice, ecological governance, and political ecology, this major reference work is a dynamic resource for government officials, sociologists, climate scientists, activists, students and educators of higher education, academicians, and researchers in the fields of social sciences, government, developmental studies, international relations, and political science.
Decentralised Local Governance and Community Development
Author: Francis Nangbeviel Sanyare
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Political Ecology of Household Water in Northern Ghana
Author: Irit Eguavoen
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN: 3825816133
Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Household water provides the entry point for this ethnography and study of institutional change. The book discusses the political economy of poverty and presents the polyphone discourse on water and the environment. It outlines water history and water rights from the 1970s onwards, and analyzes social dynamics. It offers a critical voice in the debate on climate change by arguing that local and global perceptions are not necessarily coherent.
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN: 3825816133
Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Household water provides the entry point for this ethnography and study of institutional change. The book discusses the political economy of poverty and presents the polyphone discourse on water and the environment. It outlines water history and water rights from the 1970s onwards, and analyzes social dynamics. It offers a critical voice in the debate on climate change by arguing that local and global perceptions are not necessarily coherent.
Information Flow and Acquisition of Knowledge in Water Governance in the Upper East Region of Ghana
Author: Eva Schiffer, Nancy McCarthy, Regina Birner, Douglas Waale, and Felix Asante
Publisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Publisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Evaluation of Water Resource Sustainability Within the Framework of a Rural Water Development Program
Author: W. Alan McKay
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drinking water
Languages : en
Pages : 18
Book Description
Water resources development in rural communities in northern Ghana is being undertaken through multiple programs and agencies. The primary goal of most of these programs is providing access to safe drinking water. In an effort to provide a more rigorous approach to water resource sustainability, this paper presents a numerical groundwater model for a representative hydrologic basin, or unit in northern Ghana.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drinking water
Languages : en
Pages : 18
Book Description
Water resources development in rural communities in northern Ghana is being undertaken through multiple programs and agencies. The primary goal of most of these programs is providing access to safe drinking water. In an effort to provide a more rigorous approach to water resource sustainability, this paper presents a numerical groundwater model for a representative hydrologic basin, or unit in northern Ghana.
Sustainable Development: National Aspirations, Local Implementation
Author: Alan Terry
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317047893
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Using case studies from Africa, South America, Asia and the Caribbean, this book examines the progress made in uniting national aspirations of sustainable development strategies with their local implementation. Comparing the situation on the ground with formal national environmental action plans, the book compares progress, or the lack of progress, between different sectors, cultures, regions and resources throughout the developing world. It examines whether local knowledge and actions are undermining national aspirations or whether they are being ignored at the national level with detrimental consequences to sustainable development. The measurement of sustainable development, the role of formal and informal education in sustainable development and the significance of diverse voices in the practice of sustainable development are considered. The book draws lessons from those cases which appear to be experiencing positive moves towards sustainability and examines whether common frameworks exist which suggest that good practice may be transferable from one milieu to another.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317047893
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Using case studies from Africa, South America, Asia and the Caribbean, this book examines the progress made in uniting national aspirations of sustainable development strategies with their local implementation. Comparing the situation on the ground with formal national environmental action plans, the book compares progress, or the lack of progress, between different sectors, cultures, regions and resources throughout the developing world. It examines whether local knowledge and actions are undermining national aspirations or whether they are being ignored at the national level with detrimental consequences to sustainable development. The measurement of sustainable development, the role of formal and informal education in sustainable development and the significance of diverse voices in the practice of sustainable development are considered. The book draws lessons from those cases which appear to be experiencing positive moves towards sustainability and examines whether common frameworks exist which suggest that good practice may be transferable from one milieu to another.
Demand-oriented Community Water Supply in Ghana
Author: Veronika Fuest
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN: 9783825896690
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
The Center for Development Research (ZEF) is an international and interdisciplinary academic research institute of the Rheinische-Friedrich-Wilhelms University of Bonn, Germany. ZEF's research aims at finding solutions to global development issues. The research programs build on the methods and analytical styles of the disciplinary research areas and link and integrate knowledge and capacities from these different areas. ZEF's three research departments are: Political and Cultural Change (ZEF a) Economic and Technological Change (ZEF b) Ecology and Natural Resources Management (ZEF c).
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN: 9783825896690
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
The Center for Development Research (ZEF) is an international and interdisciplinary academic research institute of the Rheinische-Friedrich-Wilhelms University of Bonn, Germany. ZEF's research aims at finding solutions to global development issues. The research programs build on the methods and analytical styles of the disciplinary research areas and link and integrate knowledge and capacities from these different areas. ZEF's three research departments are: Political and Cultural Change (ZEF a) Economic and Technological Change (ZEF b) Ecology and Natural Resources Management (ZEF c).
Dependence of riparian communities on ecosystem services in northern Ghana
Author: Mul, Marloes
Publisher: International Water Management Institute (IWMI)
ISBN: 9290908637
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Publisher: International Water Management Institute (IWMI)
ISBN: 9290908637
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Transformative Sustainable Development
Author: Kei Otsuki
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136179496
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 153
Book Description
Recent debates about sustainable development have shifted their focus from fixing environmental problems in a technocratic and economic way to more fundamental changes in social-political processes and relations. In this context, participation is a genuinely transformative approach to sustainable development, yet the process by which participation leads to transformation is not sufficiently understood. This book considers how the act of participating in sustainable development projects can bring about social transformation that is considered to be fair and just by the participants and non-participants in a broader societal context. Drawing on ideas from social theory and applied anthropology, the book proposes a reflexivity-based framework to analyse participation as a type of social action underpinned by primary experience. Development projects have a transformative effect when participants are given the opportunity to reflect on their experience, share the reflection with others, and open new space for collective deliberation and change. The book applies this framework to assess community-based participatory projects in the Amazon, African slums and rural settlements, and disaster stricken areas in Japan. It also outlines potential institutions of governance to institutionalize the change by referring to current food governance, drawing out lessons with international relevance. This book will be of interest to students of sustainable development, environmental policy and development studies, as well as practitioners and policy-makers in these fields.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136179496
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 153
Book Description
Recent debates about sustainable development have shifted their focus from fixing environmental problems in a technocratic and economic way to more fundamental changes in social-political processes and relations. In this context, participation is a genuinely transformative approach to sustainable development, yet the process by which participation leads to transformation is not sufficiently understood. This book considers how the act of participating in sustainable development projects can bring about social transformation that is considered to be fair and just by the participants and non-participants in a broader societal context. Drawing on ideas from social theory and applied anthropology, the book proposes a reflexivity-based framework to analyse participation as a type of social action underpinned by primary experience. Development projects have a transformative effect when participants are given the opportunity to reflect on their experience, share the reflection with others, and open new space for collective deliberation and change. The book applies this framework to assess community-based participatory projects in the Amazon, African slums and rural settlements, and disaster stricken areas in Japan. It also outlines potential institutions of governance to institutionalize the change by referring to current food governance, drawing out lessons with international relevance. This book will be of interest to students of sustainable development, environmental policy and development studies, as well as practitioners and policy-makers in these fields.