Living in the shadow of the large dams : long term responses of downstream and lakeside communities of Ghana's Volta River Project /

Living in the shadow of the large dams : long term responses of downstream and lakeside communities of Ghana's Volta River Project /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Tsikata, Dzodzi.
Imprint:	Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2006.
Description:	1 online resource (xxiii, 439 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Language:	English
Series:	African social studies series, 1568-1203 ; v. 11 African social studies series ; v. 11,
Subject:	Volta River Project (Ghana) Volta River Project (Ghana) Economic history. Economic policy. Social conditions Volta River Valley (Ghana) -- Economic conditions. Volta River Valley (Ghana) -- Social conditions. Ghana -- Economic policy. Ghana. Ghana -- Volta River Valley. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11185765

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ISBN:	9789047406556 9047406559 9004141448 9789004141445 9004141448 9789004141445
Digital file characteristics:	text file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 417-434) and index. Print version record.
Summary:	Studies of populations affected by large dams are usually about physically displaced and resettled communities. This book on the Volta River Project breaks with the mould and tackles the long term environmental and socio-economic impacts of the Akosombo and Kpong Dams and the livelihood responses of two neglected groups- downstream and lakeside communities. In a detailed study which takes a gendered political economy of livelihoods approach, the book examines livelihoods in downstream and lakeside communities from a historical perspective. The study takes into account the contribution of factors such as the environmental restructuring of the Lower Volta and the exodus of its most economically active population to the Volta Lake, the state's neglect of affected communities, the changing economic and social context of Ghana, and social relations of class, gender and kinship (including inter-generational relations) to livelihood trajectories and outcomes. Readership: Policy makers, researchers, students of development and civil society activists interested in the debates about large dams and their long term impacts on downstream communities, rural migration, the livelihoods approaches and gender analysis within a political economy approach.
Other form:	Print version: Tsikata, Dzodzi. Living in the shadow of the large dams. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2006
Standard no.:	9789004141445

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Summary:	Studies of populations affected by Large Dams are usually about physically displaced and resettled communities. This book on the Volta River Project breaks with the mould and tackles the long term environmental and socio-economic impacts of the Akosombo and Kpong Dams, and livelihood responses of two neglected groups- downstream and lakeside communities. In a detailed study which takes a gendered political economy of livelihoods approach, the book considers the contribution of factors such as the environmental restructuring of the Lower Volta, the exodus of its most economically active population to the Volta Lake, the State's neglect of affected communities, the changing socio-economic context of Ghana, and social relations of class, gender and kinship, to livelihood trajectories and outcomes.
Physical Description:	1 online resource (xxiii, 439 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 417-434) and index.
ISBN:	9789047406556 9047406559 9004141448 9789004141445
ISSN:	1568-1203 ;