ISBN:
978-90-04-14144-5
,
90-04-14144-8
ISSN:
1568-1203
Language:
English
Pages:
XIX, 439 Seiten
,
Illustrationen, Karten
Series Statement:
African Social Studies Series 11
Keywords:
Ghana Fluß
;
Wirtschaftspolitik
;
Wirtschaft
;
Sozialer Wandel
;
Umweltpolitik
;
Wirtschaftliche Bedingungen
;
Soziale Bedingungen
;
Sozio-ökonomischer Aspekt
;
Ökologie
;
Wirtschaftsethnologie
;
Voltasee 〈Ghana, Stausee〉
Abstract:
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. (Umschlagtext)
Description / Table of Contents:
Glossary -- Changes in the Ghanaian Currency (1958-2002) -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Volta River Project: Historical Perspectives -- 3. The Lower Volta and the Volta River Project: Dam Impacts and Environmental Change -- 4. State Policy and Community Responses: The politics of reluctant selective action and ineffectual activism -- 5. Livelihoods in Times of Stress: Long term Responses to Environmental Change at Mepe and Sokpoe -- 6. The Social Relations of Livelihoods at Mepe and Sokpoe -- 7. Responses to the Volta River Project: Voluntary Migration and the Establishment of Lakeside Settlements -- 8. From Multiple Activities to Group Specialisation: Livelihoods at Kpando Torkor, Surveyor Line and Kudikope -- 9. Concluding Chapter -- References -- Index
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite [417]-434
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