River Basin Development and Human Rights in Eastern Africa — A Policy Crossroads

Claudia Carr is Associate Professor Environmental Science, Policy and Management at the University of California, Berkeley, where she teaches courses related to international rural development policy. She has spent decades engaged in field-based research and consulting in pastoral regions of East Africa/the Horn, in combination with policy-based work in both African governmental and non-governmental contexts as well as Northern based ones, including the National Research Council's Board on Science and Technology in International Development and an Advisory Panel on river basin development. She is the author of a previous book on the Ethiopia-Kenya-South Sudan region, Pastoralism in Crisis The Dassanech of Southwest Ethiopia, along with several articles and reports.

• Chapter 1. At Stake with River Basin Development in Eastern Africa.- Chapter 2. The Persistent Paradigm for 'Modernizing' River Basins: Institutions and Policies in Ethiopia.- Chapter 3. The Seismic Threat to the Gibe III: A Disaster in Waiting.- Chapter 4. Transboundary Survival Systems: A Profile of Vulnerability.- Chapter 5. Components Of Catastrophe: Social And Environmental Consequences of Omo River Basin Development.- Chapter 6. The Rush to Rationalize: Public Policies and Impact Assessments.- Chapter 7. The Dassanech in the Lower Omo Basin: From Adaptation to Facing Devastation from 'Development'.- Chapter 8. Nyangatom Livelihood and the Omo Riverine Forest.- Chapter 9. Turkana Survival Systems at Lake Turkana: Vulnerability to Collapse from Omo Basin Development.- Chapter 10. Human Rights Violations and the Policy Crossroads.- Appendix A. Oil Exploration and Development in the Ethiopia-Kenya-South Sudan Transboundary Region; Joshua S. Dimon with Claudia Carr.- Appendix B. Species Collected in the Lowermost Omo Basin/Transboundary Region.- Appendix C. Reference set of Selected Major Figures.