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Author : Henry Olivier
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Great Dams in Southern Africa written by Henry Olivier and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Philip Harrison
Publisher : New Africa Books
ISBN 13 : 9780864865830
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (658 download)
Download or read book South Africa's Top Sites written by Philip Harrison and published by New Africa Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is aimed at people traveling in South Africa with children. It provides 'windows' into themes such as history, geology, outdoor adventures, family entertainment and spiritual places.
Author : Stephan F. Miescher
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253059984
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)
Download or read book A Dam for Africa written by Stephan F. Miescher and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2022-07-12 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its construction in the early 1960s, the hydroelectric Akosombo Dam across the Volta River has exemplified the possibilities and challenges of development in Ghana. Drawing upon a wealth of sources, A Dam for Africa investigates contrasting stories about how this dam has transformed a West African nation, while providing a model for other African countries. The massive Akosombo Dam is the keystone of the Volta River Project that includes a large manmade lake 250 miles long, the VALCO aluminum smelter, new cities and towns, a deep-sea harbor, and an electrical grid. On the local level, Akosombo has meant access to electricity for people in urban and industrial areas across southern Ghana. For others, Akosombo inflicted tremendous social and environmental costs. The dam altered the ecology of the Lower Volta, displaced 80,000 people in the Volta Basin, and affected the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of Ghanaians. In A Dam for Africa, Stephan Miescher explores four intersecting narratives: Ghanaian debates and aspirations about modernization in the context of decolonization and Cold War; international efforts of the US aluminum industry to benefit from Akosombo through cheap electricity for their VALCO smelter; local stories of upheaval and devastation in resettlement towns; and a nation-wide quest toward electrification and energy justice during times of economic crises, droughts, and climate change.
Author : B.R. Allanson
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400923821
Total Pages : 461 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Inland Waters of Southern Africa: An Ecological Perspective written by B.R. Allanson and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Limnology - the study of inland waters - had its genesis in Europe about the turn of the century. The studies of Fore1 on Lake Geneva were of seminal value at this time. It prospered under the early guidance of Thienemann, Naumann and Wesenberg-Lund in Europe and, soon transplanted, of Birge and Juday in North America (to name just a few early spirits). Now, liminology is a respectable scientific discipline taught at many universities, and limnologists are recognized as important contributors to our understanding of how this fragile spaceship functions. All this acknowledged, it must also be acknowledged that limnology is not yet a globally comprehensive science. To be sure, much is known about globally applicable processes, and the structural elements of aquatic ecosystems worldwide, but limnological emphases, interests and concerns remain essentially European and North American in balance. Much is known about lakes and rivers in less than one fifth of the world's land area (northern temperature regions); rather little is known about inland waters elsewhere.
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Total Pages : 840 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (25 download)
Download or read book South African Digest written by and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Beinart
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108944817
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (89 download)
Download or read book The Scientific Imagination in South Africa written by William Beinart and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-05-20 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: South Africa provides a unique vantage point from which to examine the scientific imagination over the last three centuries, when its position on the African continent made it a staging post for Portuguese, Dutch, and British colonialism. In the eighteenth century, South African plants and animals caught the imagination of visiting Europeans. In the nineteenth century, science became central to imperial conquest, devastating wars, agricultural intensification and the exploitation of rich mineral resources. Scientific work both facilitated, and offered alternatives to, the imposition of segregation and apartheid in the twentieth century. William Beinart and Saul Dubow offer an innovative exploration of science and technology in this complex, divided society. Bridging a range of disciplines from astronomy to zoology, they demonstrate how scientific knowledge shaped South Africa's peculiar path to modernity. In so doing, they examine the work of remarkable individual scientists and institutions, as well as the contributions of leading politicians from Jan Smuts to Thabo Mbeki.
Author : Saul Dubow
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199296634
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)
Download or read book A Commonwealth of Knowledge written by Saul Dubow and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2006-10-19 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first full study of the relationship of knowledge to national identity formation in modern South Africa. It explores how the cultivation of knowledge served to support white political ascendancy and claims to nationhood. Elegantly written and wide ranging, the book addresses major themes in both South African and comparative imperial historiography.
Author : Richard Meissner
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319388878
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (193 download)
Download or read book Hydropolitics, Interest Groups and Governance written by Richard Meissner and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-06-17 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the role that interest groups have played over the years in influencing the government of Namibia, the World Bank, the European Union and project implementation authorities to not construct the proposed Epupa Hydroelectric Power Station on the Kunene River in the Baynes mountains, a region on the border between Namibia and Angola. Some of the issues brought forward by the interest groups are the socio-economic impact the dam would have on the OvaHimba, as well as negative consequences for the river’s aquatic and terrestrial environment. This book argues that interest groups and individuals have the ability to influence the above-mentioned institutions, and to such an extent that water politics and governance are not exclusively the domain of state institutions. As such, it argues that communal interest groups, living in remote parts of the world, can influence state institutions at various political scales.
Author : Library of Congress
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Total Pages : 1480 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Library of Congress Subject Headings written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 1480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Library of Congress. Office for Subject Cataloging Policy
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Total Pages : 1636 pages
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Download or read book F-O written by Library of Congress. Office for Subject Cataloging Policy and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 1636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office
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Total Pages : 1688 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Library of Congress Subject Headings written by Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 1688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 760 pages
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Download or read book Surveyor and Municipal and County Engineer written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 856 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (26 download)
Download or read book The South African Mining and Engineering Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Library of Congress. Subject Cataloging Division
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Total Pages : 1436 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Library of Congress Subject Headings: P-Z written by Library of Congress. Subject Cataloging Division and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 1436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Johann W.N. Tempelhoff
Publisher : AOSIS
ISBN 13 : 1928396739
Total Pages : 658 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (283 download)
Download or read book South Africa’s water governance hydraulic mission (1912–2008) in a WEF-Nexus context written by Johann W.N. Tempelhoff and published by AOSIS. This book was released on 2018-12-01 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geologists, physicists and ecologists currently promote the idea of a post-Holocene epoch – the Anthropocene. As a result of constant innovation and modernisation in the fields of engineering, natural science, management studies and environmental studies there has been a growing awareness of the intrinsic interaction between humankind and the environment. Humankind has become part of the environmental dynamics, to the extent that they are literally able to change ecosystems. Nowhere is the impact more evident than in the anthropogenic engagement with the hydrosphere – from the smallest pool of water to the earth’s atmosphere. Comprehensive infrastructure development in water and sanitation, the growing trend to seek additional resources in the form of groundwater, desalinated seawater, and recycled wastewater, as well as special attention being given to capturing and preserving rainwater, bear evidence of a timely response to climate change, population growth and rapid development in many water-stressed regions of the world. The purpose of the book is to provide a historical overview of the manner in which South Africa’s water resources have been governed from a time when the Union of South Africa was formed, in 1910, up to 2008, a time of a growing global awareness of the potential impact that climate change may have on water resources in a key region of southern Africa, notable for increasing levels of aridity and more erratic rainfall patterns. This focus on the history of water affairs in South Africa makes it possible for scholars to comprehend the contemporary transitions made in the country’s water governance system since the establishment in 2014 of the Department of Water and Sanitation. The focus is on the Water–Energy–Food nexus, a strategy which holistically contemplates the governance and use of water from the perspective of the interconnection between water, energy and food as resources.
Author : Will Darwall
Publisher : IUCN
ISBN 13 : 2831711266
Total Pages : 131 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (317 download)
Download or read book The Status and Distribution of Freshwater Biodiversity in Southern Africa written by Will Darwall and published by IUCN. This book was released on 2009 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CD ROM to accompany this book available from Library Office.
Author : Stephan F. Miescher
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253059968
Total Pages : 598 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)
Download or read book A Dam for Africa written by Stephan F. Miescher and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2022-07-12 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its construction in the early 1960s, the hydroelectric Akosombo Dam across the Volta River has exemplified the possibilities and challenges of development in Ghana. Drawing upon a wealth of sources, A Dam for Africa investigates contrasting stories about how this dam has transformed a West African nation, while providing a model for other African countries. The massive Akosombo Dam is the keystone of the Volta River Project that includes a large manmade lake 250 miles long, the VALCO aluminum smelter, new cities and towns, a deep-sea harbor, and an electrical grid. On the local level, Akosombo has meant access to electricity for people in urban and industrial areas across southern Ghana. For others, Akosombo inflicted tremendous social and environmental costs. The dam altered the ecology of the Lower Volta, displaced 80,000 people in the Volta Basin, and affected the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of Ghanaians. In A Dam for Africa, Stephan Miescher explores four intersecting narratives: Ghanaian debates and aspirations about modernization in the context of decolonization and Cold War; international efforts of the US aluminum industry to benefit from Akosombo through cheap electricity for their VALCO smelter; local stories of upheaval and devastation in resettlement towns; and a nation-wide quest toward electrification and energy justice during times of economic crises, droughts, and climate change.
