Nile River Basin : Ecohydrological Challenges, Climate Change and Hydropolitics - Melesse, Assefa M.; Abtew, Wossenu; Setegn, Shimelis G.; SpringerLink (Online service) (Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014)
Part I: Hydrology and Water Availability -- The Nile River Basin -- Streamflow Data Needs for Water Resources Management and Monitoring Challenges: A Case Study of Wami River Sub-basin in Tanzania -- Satellite Rainfall Products and their Reliability in the Blue Nile basin -- Africa-Wide Monitoring of Small Surface Water Bodies Using Multi-Source Satellite Data: A Monitoring System for FEWS NET -- Surface and Ground Water Resources of Ethiopia: Potentials and Challenges of Water Resources Development -- Land and Water in the Nile basin -- Part II: Soil erosion and Water Quality -- Soil Erosion and Discharge in the Blue Nile Basin: Trends and Challenges -- Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Soil Erosion in the Semi-humid Ethiopian Highlands: A Case Study of Debre Mawi Watershed -- Modeling Sediments Dynamics: Effect of Land Use, Topography and Land Management in the Wami-Ruvu Basin Tanzania -- Assessment of Soil Erosion in the Blue Nile Basin -- Hydro-epidemiology of the Nile Basin: Understanding the Complex Linkages between Water and Infectious Diseases -- Part III: Lakes and watersheds -- Monitoring State of Biomass Recovery in the Blue Nile Basin Using Image Based Disturbance Index -- Bathymetry, Lake Area and Volume Mapping: A Remote Sensing Perspective -- Land Use and Land Cover Changes in Northern Kordofan State of Sudan: A Remotely-Sensed Data Analysis -- Multi-Model Approach for Spatial Evapotranspiration Mapping: Comparison of Models Performance for Different Ecosystems -- Modeling Rainfall Erosivity from Daily Rainfall Events, Upper Blue Nile Basin, Ethiopia -- Part IV: Climate Change and Water Resources -- Climate Change Impacts and Development Based Adaptation Pathway to the Nile River Basin -- Climate Change Projections in the Upper Gilgel Abay River Catchment, Blue Nile Basin Ethiopia -- Climate Change Impact on Water Resources and Adaptation Strategies in the Blue Nile River Basin -- Climate change and Rangeland Degradation in Eastern Sudan: Which Adaptation Strategy Work Well? -- Statistical Downscaling of Precipitation in the Upper Nile Use of Generalised Linear Models (GLMs) for the Kyoga Basin -- Local and Indigenous Knowledge Systems in Subsistence Agriculture, Climate Risk Management and Mitigation of Community Vulnerability in Changing Climate, Lake Victoria Basin: Case Study of Rakai and Isingiro Districts, Uganda -- Part V: Water Accessibility, institutional setup and policy -- Processes of Institutional Change and Factors Influencing Collective Action in Local Water Resources Governance in the Blue Nile Basin of Ethiopia -- Water Governance in the Nile Basin for Hydropower Development -- Managing Rainwater for Resilient Dryland Systems in SSA: Review of evidences -- Part VI: Transboundary Rivers, Water Sharing and Hydropolitics -- Impact and Benefit Study of Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) during Impounding and Operation Phases on Downstream Structure in the Eastern Nile -- Transboundary Rivers and the Nile -- International Water Law Principles and Frameworks: Perspectives from the Nile River Basin -- Supporting the Development of Efficient and Effective River Basin Organizations in Africa: What Steps Can Be Taken to Improve Transboundary Water Cooperation Between the Riparian States of the Nile? -- Part VII: Watershed Services and water management -- Payment for Watershed Services in the Mara River Basin: Part I - Institutions and Stakeholder Engagement -- Payment for Watershed Services in the Mara River Basin: Part II - An Analysis of Stakeholders' Perceptions and Willingness to Implement -- Climate Teleconnections and Water Management.
Keywords: Hydrogeology; Hydrology; Physical geography; Climate change; Hydrogeology; Hydrology/Water Resources; Physical Geography; Climate Change