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Recent literature on Nile Basin co-operation

The following list is a presentation of more recent publications on Nile Basin co-operation work.

Alemu, Senai, 1995. Problem Definition and Stakeholder Analysis of the Nile River Basin. Paper presented at the 3rd Annual Nile 2002 Conference. Arusha, Tanzania, February 13-15.

Allan, J.A., 1999(a). The Nile Basin: Evolving Approaches to Nile Waters Management. Occasional Paper 20, SOAS Water Issues Group, University of London. http://www2.soas.ac.uk/Geography/WaterIssues/OccasionalPapers/AcrobatFiles/Occ20.pdf

Allan, J.A., 1999(e). Avoiding War over Natural Resources. S. Fleming (ed.): War and Water. Geneva: ICRC Publication Division: http://www.irc.org.

Arsano, Yacob, 1997. Predicaments of Cooperation in the Nile Basin.

Brunnee, Jutta; Toope, Stephen J., 2002. The (eds): Changing Nile Basin Regime: Does law matter? Harvard International Law Journal Vol. 43, No.1: 105-159.

Carroll, Christina M., 1999. Past and Future Legal Framework of the Nile River Basin. Geo. Int'l Envtl. L. Rev. Vol. 12, No. 1: 269-304.

Collins, Robert O., 2000. In Search of the Nile Waters, 1900-2000. In Haggai Erlich; Israel Gershoni (eds): The Nile: Histories, cultures, myths, Boulder, Colo: Lynne Rienner Publishers. pp 245-267.

Dagne, Nebiyou; Mulugeta, Daniel Bekele; Kaihara, Kentaro, 1999. Towards a Cooperative Use of the Nile: A Legal Perspective. Cambridge Review of International Affairs Vol. 12, No. 2: 236.

Dellapenna, Joseph W., 1997. The Nile as a Legal and Political Structure (Chapter 7). In Edward H.P. Brans ... [et al.] (eds): (The Scarcity of Water: Emerging legal and policy responses. International Environmental Law and Policy Series. London: Kluwer Law International. pp.121-134.

Dinar, Ariel; Alemu, Senai, 2000. The Process of Negotiation over International Water Dispute: The Case of the Nile Basin. International Negotiation Vol. 5, No. 2:331-356.

Elhance, Arun P., 1999. The Nile Basin (Chapter Two). In Arun P. Elhance: Hydropolitics in the Third World: Conflict and cooperation in international river basins. Washington, D.C: United States Institute of Peace Press. pp. 53-83.

El-Khodari, Nabil M., 2002. The Nile Basin Initiative (NBI): Business as usual? Paper accepted for presentation at International Conference of Basin Organizations, Madrid, Spain, 4-6 November 2002 Online: http://nilebasin.com/wwf/doc/madrid.htm.


Erlich, Haggai; Gershoni, Israel(eds): 2000. The Nile: Histories, Cultures, Myths, Boulder, Colo: Lynne Rienner Publishers

Erlich, Haggai, 2002. The Cross and the River: Ethiopia, Egypt, and the Nile. Boulder, Colo: Lynne Rienner.


Fathy, El-Gamal, 1996. Water Resources Management Strategies and Action Programs in the Nile Basin: The Nile Basin Action Plan, Nile 2002 Conference (feb. 26-28, 1996).

Flint, Courtney G., 1995. Recent Development of the International law Commission Regarding International Watercourse and their Implications for the Nile River. Water International 20:197-204.

Foulds, Kimberly E., 2002. The Nile Basin Initiative: Challenges to Implementation. Paper presented at the Managing Shared Water Conference, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada 23-28 June 2002. Online: http://nilebasin.com/documents/kim1.htm.

Gleick, Peter H., et al. 2002. The World's Water 2002-2003: The Biennial Report on Freshwater Resources. Washington, D.C., Island Press.


Hamner, J.; Wolf, A., 1998. Patterns in International Water Resource Treaties: the transboundary freshwater dispute database. Colorado Journal of International Environmental Law and Policy, 1997 Yearbook, 1998. http://www.transboundarywaters.orst.edu/documents/patterns/index.html

Hulme, M., 1994. Global Climate Change and the Nile Basin. In P.P. Howell; J. A. Allan (eds): The Nile: Sharing scarce resources: A historical and technical review of water management and of economic and legal issues. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press. pp 139-162.

Hulme, M., 1994. Global Climate Change and the Nile Basin. In P.P. Howell; J. A. Allan (eds): The Nile: Sharing scarce resources: A historical and technical review of water management and of economic and legal issues. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press. pp 139-162.

Jacobs, Lisa M., 1993. Sharing the Gift of the Nile: Establishment of a legal Regime for Nile Waters Management. Temple International & Comparative Law Journal (TICLJ) Vol. 7, No.1: 95-122.

Kendie, Daniel, 1999. Egypt and the Hydro-Politics of the Blue Nile River. North African Studies Vol. 6, No. 1:141-169: http://www.hsu.edu/faculty/afo/1999-00/kendie.htm.

Kerisel, Jean, 2001. The Nile and its Masters: Past, present, future - Source of hope and anger. Brookfield, VT: A. A. Balkema.

Klare, Michael T., 2001, Resource Wars: The new landscape of global conflict. New York: Metropolitan Books.

Kukk, Christopher; Deese, David, 1996. At the Water's Edge: Regional Conflict and Cooperation over Fresh Water. UCLA Journal of International Law and Foreign Affairs Vol. 21, No.1:21-64.

Laki, Sam L., 1998. Management of the Water Resources of the Nile Basin. International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology Vol. 5, No 4: 288-296.

Lemma, Legesse, 1994. Ethiopia and Egypt: Towards an Appraisal of Nile Water Sharing in the Context of the Helsinki Rules. In Bahru Zewde; Richard Pankhurst; Taddesse Beyene (eds): Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference of Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa, April 1-6, 1991. Addis Ababa University Press pp. 755-780.

Mokonnen, Kefyalew, 1997. A New Basis for a Viable Nile River Water Allocation Agreement. Paper presented at the Fifth Nile 2002 Conference, Addis Ababa, 24-28 February 1997. http://archives.geez.org/AddisTribune/Archives/1998/11/27-11-98/nile.html

Okidi, C.O., 1990. History of the Nile and Lake Victoria Basins through Treaties. In P.P. Howell; J.A. Allan(eds): The Nile: Resource evaluation, resource management, hydropolitics and legal issues. London at the Royal Geographic Society and the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. pp 193-224.

Pankhurst, Richard, 2002. The Ethiopia's Alleged Control of the Nile. In Haggai Erlich; Israel Gershoni (eds): The Nile: Histories, Cultures, Myths. Boulder. Colo: Lynne Rienner Publishers. pp. 25-37.

Postel, Sandra, 1999. Pillar of Sand: Can the Irrigation Miracle Last? London: W.W. Norton & Co.

Schiffler, Manuel, 1998. Conflicts over the Nile or Conflicts on the Nile? In Waltina Scheumann, Manuel Schiffler (eds): Water in the Middle East: potential for conflicts and prospects for cooperation. Berlin: Springer. pp. 137-150.

Shady, A.M.; Adam, A.M..; Ali, Mohamed Kamal, 1994. The Nile 2002: The vision toward cooperation in the Nile Basin. Water International Vol.19, No.2: 77-81.

Smith J, 1996. Nine Nations, One Nile (Chapter 9). The University of Michigan, School of Natural Resources and Environment, Seminar in Population-Environment Dynamics: transition theory: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~wddrake/smith.html

Swain, Ashok, 1997. Ethiopia, the Sudan, and Egypt: The Nile River dispute. Journal of Modern African Studies Vol. 35, No. 4: 675-694.

Swain, Ashok, 2002. The Nile River Basin Initiative: Too Many Cooks, Too Little Broth. SAIS Review Vol. XXII, No. 2:293-308.

Tafesse, Tesfaye, 2001. The Nile Question: Hydropolitics, legal wrangling, modus vivendi and perspective. London, UK: Transaction Publishers.

Tafla, Bairu, 2000. The father of Rivers: the Nile in Ethiopian Literature. In Haggai Erlich; Israel Gershoni (eds): The Nile: Histories, Cultures, Myths. Boulder, Colo: Lynne Rienner Publishers. pp. 153-170.

Tamrat, Imeru, 1995. Constraints and Opportunities for Basin-Wide Cooperation in the Nile: A legal perspective. In J.A. Allan; Chibli Mallat (eds): Water in the Middle East: Legal, political and commercial implications. London; New York, NY, I.B. Tauris Publishers: pp 177-188.

TFDD. The Transboundary Freshwater Dispute Database. A project of the Oregon State University, Department of Geosciences, available on-line: http://terra.geo.orst.edu/users/tfdd/.

Turton, A.R., 2002. Hydropolitics: The Concept and its Limitations. In A.R Turton; R. Henwood (eds): Hydropolitics in the Developing World: A Southern African Perspective. Pretoria: African Water Issues Research Unit (AWIRU). pp 13-19.

Tvedt, T., 2002: The River Nile and its economic, political, social and cultural role. An annotated bibliography. Bergen: BRIC

Tvedt, T., 2004: The River Nile in the Age of the British. Political Ecology & the Quest for Economic Power. London: IB.Tauris

Varis, Olli, 2000. The Nile Basin in a Global Perspective: Natural, human, and socio-economic resource nexus. Water International Vol. 25, No. 4: 624-637.

Warburg, Gabriel R., 2000a. The Nile in Egyptian-Sudanese Relations, 1956-1995. In Haggai Erlich; Israel Gershoni (eds): The Nile: Histories, Cultures, Myths. pp. 227-234.

Warburg, Gabriel R., 2000b. The Nile Waters, Border Issues and Radical Islam in Egyptian-Sudanese Relations, 1956-1995. In Jay Spaulding; Stephanie Beswick (eds): White Nile, Black Blood: War, leadership, and ethnicity from Khartoum to Kampala. Lawrenceville, N.J: Red Sea Press. pp 73-82.

Waterbury, John, 1990. Legal and Institutional Arrangements for Managing Water Resources in the Nile Basin. In Reeva S. Simon (ed.): The Middle East and North Africa: Essays in honor of J. C. Hurewitz. New York: Middle East Institute, Columbia University. pp 276-303.

Waterbury, John, 1997(a). Is the Status Quo in the Nile Basin Viable? Brown Journal of World Affairs Vol. 4, No. 1: 287-98.

Waterbury, John, 1997(b). Between Unilateralism and Comprehensive accords: Modest Steps Toward Cooperation in International River Basins. International Journal of Water Resources Development Vol. 13, No. 3:277-90.

Waterbury, John; Whittington, Dale, 1998. Playing Chicken on the Nile: The Implications of Micro-dam Development in the Ethiopian Highlands and Egypt's New Valley Project. Natural Resources Forum Vol. 22, No. 3:155-64.

Whittington, Dale; McClelland, Elizabeth, 1992. Opportunities for Regional and International Cooperation in the Nile Basin. Water International Vol. 17, No. 3:144-154.

Wiebe, Kristin, 2001. The Nile River: Potential for Conflict and Cooperation in the Face of Water Degradation. Natural Resources Journal Vol. 41, No. 3: 731-754.

Yohannes, Alula, 1999. The Hydropolitics of the Nile (Presented to East African Forum). Online: http://www.ethiopians.com/abay/nilepolitics.html.

Zerihun, Dawit. The Nile: Challenges and Opportunities for Ethiopia. Online: http://www.eedn.org/Mesfin/DawitZerihun.pdf.

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