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

By: Claudia J. Carr

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

By: Claudia J. Carr

This book is open access under a CC BY-NC 2.5 license. This book offers a devastating look at deeply flawed development processes driven by international finance, African governments and the global consulting industry. It examines major river basin development underway in the semi-arid borderlands of Ethiopia, Kenya and South Sudan and its disastrous human rights consequences for a half-million indigenous people. The volume traces the historical origins of Gibe III megadam construction along the Omo River in Ethiopia—in turn, enabling irrigation for commercial-scale agricultural development and causing radical reduction of downstream Omo and (Kenya's) Lake Turkana waters. Presenting case studies of indigenous Dasanech and northernmost Turkana livelihood systems and Gibe III linked impacts on them, the author predicts agropastoral and fishing economic collapse, region-wide hunger with exposure to disease epidemics, irreversible natural resource destruction and cross-border interethnic armed conflict spilling into South Sudan. The book identifies fundamental failings of government and development bank impact assessments, including their distortion or omission of mandated transboundary assessment, cumulative effects of the Gibe III dam and its linked Ethiopia-Kenya energy transmission 'highway' project, key hydrologic and human ecological characteristics, major earthquake threat in the dam region and widespread expropriation and political repression. Violations of internationally recognized human rights, especially by the Ethiopian government but also the Kenyan government, are extensive and on the increase—with collaboration by the development banks, in breach of their own internal operational procedures. A policy crossroads has now emerged. The author presents the alternative to the present looming catastrophe—consideration of development suspension in order to undertake genuinely independent transboundary assessment and a plan for continued development action within a human rights framework—forging a sustainable future for the indigenous peoples now directly threatened and for their respective eastern Africa states. Claudia Carr’s book is a treasure of detailed information gathered over many years concerning river basin development of the Omo River in Ethiopia and its impact on the peoples of the lower Omo Basin and the Lake Turkana region in Kenya. It contains numerous maps, charts, and photographs not previously available to the public. The book is highly critical of the environmental and human rights implications of the Omo River hydropower projects on both the local ethnic communities in Ethiopia and on the downstream Turkana in Kenya. David Shinn Former Ambassador to Ethiopia and to Burkina Faso Adjust Professor of International Affairs, The George Washington University, Washington D.C.

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Springer

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331950469X

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Pain 2014 Refresher Courses

15th World Congress on Pain

By: Srinivasa N. Raja,Claudia L. Sommer

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Pain 2014 Refresher Courses

15th World Congress on Pain

By: Srinivasa N. Raja,Claudia L. Sommer

Every two years, the International Association for the Study of Pain publishes a compendium of benchmark papers that summarize the current status of pain research, treatment, and management throughout the world. Presented at the 15th World Congress on Pain in Buenos Aires in October 2014, these papers represent the thinking of the world's top pain scientists and clinicians. IASP distributes this book to participants in the Refresher Courses, and it is now available to pain researchers and clinicians who were unable to attend the Congress.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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1496332032

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9781496332035

Ordinary Differential Equations

Qualitative Theory

By: Luis Barreira,Claudia Valls

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Ordinary Differential Equations

Qualitative Theory

By: Luis Barreira,Claudia Valls

This textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the qualitative theory of ordinary differential equations. It includes a discussion of the existence and uniqueness of solutions, phase portraits, linear equations, stability theory, hyperbolicity and equations in the plane. The emphasis is primarily on results and methods that allow one to analyze qualitative properties of the solutions without solving the equations explicitly. The text includes numerous examples that illustrate in detail the new concepts and results as well as exercises at the end of each chapter. The book is also intended to serve as a bridge to important topics that are often left out of a course on ordinary differential equations. In particular, it provides brief introductions to bifurcation theory, center manifolds, normal forms and Hamiltonian systems.

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American Mathematical Society

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1470473860

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Stability of Nonautonomous Differential Equations

By: Luis Barreira,Claudia Valls

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Stability of Nonautonomous Differential Equations

By: Luis Barreira,Claudia Valls

This volume covers the stability of nonautonomous differential equations in Banach spaces in the presence of nonuniform hyperbolicity. Topics under discussion include the Lyapunov stability of solutions, the existence and smoothness of invariant manifolds, and the construction and regularity of topological conjugacies. The exposition is directed to researchers as well as graduate students interested in differential equations and dynamical systems, particularly in stability theory.

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Springer

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3540747753

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Hyperbolicity In Delay Equations

By: Luis Barreira,Claudia Valls

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Hyperbolicity In Delay Equations

By: Luis Barreira,Claudia Valls

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the study of hyperbolicity in both linear and nonlinear delay equations. This includes a self-contained discussion of the foundations, main results and essential techniques, with emphasis on important parts of the theory that apply to a large class of delay equations. The central theme is always hyperbolicity and only topics that are directly related to it are included. Among these are robustness, admissibility, invariant manifolds, and spectra, which play important roles in life sciences, engineering and control theory, especially in delayed feedback mechanisms.The book is dedicated to researchers as well as graduate students specializing in differential equations and dynamical systems who wish to have an extensive and in-depth view of the hyperbolicity theory of delay equations. It can also be used as a basis for graduate courses on the stability and hyperbolicity of delay equations.

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World Scientific

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9811230269

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

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

Pain 2014 Refresher Courses

Pain 2014 Refresher Courses

Ordinary Differential Equations

Ordinary Differential Equations

Stability of Nonautonomous Differential Equations

Stability of Nonautonomous Differential Equations

Hyperbolicity In Delay Equations

Hyperbolicity In Delay Equations

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