admin October 20th, 2009
River basin management is one of the most important and difficult environmental issues that we face as a planet. Rivers are no respecters of borders and so management issues of rivers tend to ‘overflow’ county, regional and international borders.
Studying and understanding the ways that we manage common assets – rivers, the sea, the air around us – has been a large part of the life work of Elinor Ostrom who has just been awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics.
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Tags: Ostrom, River basins, Zambezi
admin September 10th, 2009
In the Spring it’s the Zambezi that floods regularly – and the Red Cross is putting in place its Zambezi River Basin Initiative to try to tackle that.
But at this time of year the flooding problem is in West Africa. Just a couple of days ago the BBC was reporting that 350,000 people had been affected in Ghana, Burkina Faso, Benin, Guinea, Niger and Senegal.
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Tags: Benin, Burkina Faso, Floods, Ghana, Guinea, Mauritania, Niger, Red Cross, Senegal, UN, West Africa, WFP, Zambezi
