Climate Resilience in Africa : The Role of Cooperation around Transboundary Waters

Addressing water-challenges is central to building climate resilience. In Africa, all major waters are transboundary making cooperation on international waters critically important to building climate resilience. Regional-national coordination is n...

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Main Author:	World Bank Group
Format:	Report
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2018
Subjects:	TRANSNATIONAL WATERWAYS RIPARIAN RIGHTS CLIMATE RESILIENCE CLIMATE CHANGE WATER RESOURCE MANAGEMENT RURAL LIVELIHOOD POVERTY REDUCTION VULNERABILITY TRANSBOUNDARY COOPERATION SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/957101519192427672/Climate-resilience-in-Africa-the-role-of-cooperation-around-transboundary-waters http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29388

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spelling	okr-10986-293882021-05-25T09:11:42Z Climate Resilience in Africa : The Role of Cooperation around Transboundary Waters World Bank Group TRANSNATIONAL WATERWAYS RIPARIAN RIGHTS CLIMATE RESILIENCE CLIMATE CHANGE WATER RESOURCE MANAGEMENT RURAL LIVELIHOOD POVERTY REDUCTION VULNERABILITY TRANSBOUNDARY COOPERATION SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT Addressing water-challenges is central to building climate resilience. In Africa, all major waters are transboundary making cooperation on international waters critically important to building climate resilience. Regional-national coordination is needed if the full range of options for building resilience is to be considered. Furthermore, experience shows that cooperative action can outweigh transaction costs, bring about efficiency gains, and change behavior of cooperating countries to be more future-oriented, leading to an expansion of potential resilience benefits in the longer term. This report draws on a substantial body of empirical evidence from five major basins in Africa - including the Nile, Zambezi, Limpopo, Lake Chad, Niger basins - to support the critical role of transboundary cooperation on water resources management to building systemic resilience to climate change in Africa. 2018-02-27T21:18:12Z 2018-02-27T21:18:12Z 2017-06-27 Report http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/957101519192427672/Climate-resilience-in-Africa-the-role-of-cooperation-around-transboundary-waters http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29388 English CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Working Paper Africa Sub-Saharan Africa
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topic	TRANSNATIONAL WATERWAYS RIPARIAN RIGHTS CLIMATE RESILIENCE CLIMATE CHANGE WATER RESOURCE MANAGEMENT RURAL LIVELIHOOD POVERTY REDUCTION VULNERABILITY TRANSBOUNDARY COOPERATION SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT
spellingShingle	TRANSNATIONAL WATERWAYS RIPARIAN RIGHTS CLIMATE RESILIENCE CLIMATE CHANGE WATER RESOURCE MANAGEMENT RURAL LIVELIHOOD POVERTY REDUCTION VULNERABILITY TRANSBOUNDARY COOPERATION SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT World Bank Group Climate Resilience in Africa : The Role of Cooperation around Transboundary Waters
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description	Addressing water-challenges is central to building climate resilience. In Africa, all major waters are transboundary making cooperation on international waters critically important to building climate resilience. Regional-national coordination is needed if the full range of options for building resilience is to be considered. Furthermore, experience shows that cooperative action can outweigh transaction costs, bring about efficiency gains, and change behavior of cooperating countries to be more future-oriented, leading to an expansion of potential resilience benefits in the longer term. This report draws on a substantial body of empirical evidence from five major basins in Africa - including the Nile, Zambezi, Limpopo, Lake Chad, Niger basins - to support the critical role of transboundary cooperation on water resources management to building systemic resilience to climate change in Africa.
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author	World Bank Group
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title	Climate Resilience in Africa : The Role of Cooperation around Transboundary Waters
title_short	Climate Resilience in Africa : The Role of Cooperation around Transboundary Waters
title_full	Climate Resilience in Africa : The Role of Cooperation around Transboundary Waters
title_fullStr	Climate Resilience in Africa : The Role of Cooperation around Transboundary Waters
title_full_unstemmed	Climate Resilience in Africa : The Role of Cooperation around Transboundary Waters
title_sort	climate resilience in africa : the role of cooperation around transboundary waters
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2018
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/957101519192427672/Climate-resilience-in-Africa-the-role-of-cooperation-around-transboundary-waters http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29388
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