In the wake of the global food crisis of 2008, Middle Eastern oil producers have announced
multi-billion investments to secure food supplies from abroad. Often called land grabs, such …

This article develops a new framework for understanding environment-conflict relations, on
both theoretical grounds and through a qualitative historical analysis of the links between …

This article proposes and fleshes out an analytical method designed to support efforts to
transform inequitable and unsustainable transboundary water arrangements. Such …

Whilst the authors engaged in this book offer numerous perspectives from many disciplines,
there appears to be consensus on one element of water challenges: that solutions lie as …

This case study on East Africa analyses the impact of changing power relations over the last
decade on Egypt's hydro-hegemony on the Nile River Basin. Covering one-tenth of Africa's …

The steadily declining waters of Lake Victoria–shared by Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda, and
fed by Rwandan and Burundian river systems, link East Africa's great lakes as headwaters of …

1.1. Background The Nile River flows from south to north, a distance of 5,584 km from its
principal source1 and drain an area of more than 3.1 million sq km or nearly one-tenth of the …

This article proposes and fleshes-out an analytical method designed to support efforts to
transform inequitable and unsustainable transboundary water arrangements. Such …