Graduation Year
2008
Document Type
Thesis
Degree
M.S.
Degree Granting Department
Geography
Major Professor
Mark Amen, Ph.D.
Committee Member
Robert Brinkman, Ph.D.
Committee Member
Fenda Akiwumi, Ph.D.
Keywords
Egypt, Ethiopia, Sudan, Cooperation, Neo-functionalism
Abstract
The management of international waterways presents riparian nations with a challenging set of political, economic, environmental, and geographic difficulties. Historically, the Nile Basin has exemplified many of these problems as witnessed by inter-basin conflict, devastating floods, crippling drought, and unstable political and economic development. Despite their tumultuous past the ten riparian nations of the Nile Basin established a supranational water management institution in 1999, the Nile Basin Initiative (NBI), in order to develop collective solutions to their common water related problems. However, serious challenges to the cooperative process threaten to derail the NBI and enflame underlying causes of conflict. This thesis seeks to determine how the NBI has affected water related decision making in the Nile Basin. This will be achieved by examining patterns of decision-making before and after the establishment of the NBI. Specifically, the impact of the NBI will be tested by examining patterns of decision-making within three measures of conflict, namely the allocation of water resources, the sharing of technical data and expertise, and the financing of water related projects and programs.
Scholar Commons Citation
Merrill, John C., "Water Management and Decision-Making in the Nile Basin: A Case Study of the Nile Basin Initiative" (2008). USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/etd/402
