The grand renaissance dam and prospects for cooperation on the eastern nile

Water Policy

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 595-608

  Whittington, Dale ^a,b   Waterbury, John ^c   Jeuland, Marc ^d  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY ABU DHABI   (United Arab Emirates)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

1959 Nile Waters Agreement; Blue Nile Gorge; Climate change; Grand Renaissance Dam; Nile; Transboundary cooperation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84898545781     PISSN: 13667017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/wp.2014.011b     Document Type: Article

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