Dams, power, and the politics of Ethiopia's renaissance

• Verfasst von: Lavers, Tom [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Dams, power, and the politics of Ethiopia's renaissance
• Mitwirkende: Erda, Fana Gebresenbet [MitwirkendeR]
• Mitwirkende: Terrefe, Biruk [MitwirkendeR]
• Mitwirkende: Fantini, Emanuele [MitwirkendeR]
• Mitwirkende: Woldegebrael, Edegilign Hailu [MitwirkendeR]
• Mitwirkende: Puddu, Luca [MitwirkendeR]
• Verf.angabe: Tom Lavers ; with Fana Gebresenbet, Biruk Terrefe, Emanuele Fantini, Edegilign Hailu Woldegebrael and Luca Puddu
• Verlagsort: Oxford ; New York
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• E-Jahr: 2024
• Jahr: [2024]
• Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 310 Seiten)
• Illustrationen: Diagramme, Karten
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Oxford studies in African politics and international relations
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Oxford scholarship online : Political Science
• Fussnoten: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 265-290, Register
• Ang. zum Inhalt: Dams, power, and state-led development : situating Ethiopia's dams boom / Tom Lavers
• Ang. zum Inhalt: Modernization, state-building, and the hydraulic mission in imperial and revolutionary Ethiopia / Tom Lavers
• Ang. zum Inhalt: Political vulnerability and the origins of the EPRDF's dams boom / Tom Lavers, Fana Gebresenbet, and Biruk Terrefe
• Ang. zum Inhalt: Powering the 'developmental state' / Tom Lavers, Biruk Terrefe, and Fana Gebresenbet
• Ang. zum Inhalt: Salini : an Ethio-Italian story / Emanuele Fantini, Luca Puddu, Edegilign Hailu Woldegebrael, and Tom Lavers
• Ang. zum Inhalt: Upending the hydropolitics of the Nile : from cooperation to unilateralism / Tom Lavers
• Ang. zum Inhalt: Designing the Blue Nile dam : between the hydropolitics of the Nile and an Ethiopian renaissance / Tom Lavers
• Ang. zum Inhalt: Electrifying Ethiopia, consolidating power : the challenge of distributing electricity / Tom Lavers and Fana Gebresenbet
• Ang. zum Inhalt: Beyond the 'developmental state' : prosperity and conflict after the EPRDF / Tom Lavers, Biruk Terrefe, and Fana Gebresenbet
• Ang. zum Inhalt: Ethiopia's renaissance, dams, and state-led development in the twenty-first century / Tom Lavers
• ISBN: 978-0-19-287121-3
• DOI: doi:10.1093/oso/9780192871213.001.0001
• Schlagwörter: (s)Staudamm / (s)Fluss / (s)Wasserkraftwerk / (s)Entwicklungspolitik / (s)Modernisierung / (s)Wasserwirtschaft / (s)Politik / (s)Politischer Prozess / (s)Internationale Politik / (s)Innenpolitik
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Druck-Ausgabe
• Sach-SW: Environment and Ecology
• Sach-SW: Economics
• K10plus-PPN: 1906319464
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Abstract

After more than a decade of construction, Ethiopia is filling the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), a controversial dam with the potential to transform the hydrology and politics of the Nile Basin. The GERD is the culmination of a dam building boom carried out over three decades and a key pillar of the Ethiopian Peoples' Revolutionary Democratic Front's (EPRDF) efforts to bring about an Ethiopian 'Renaissance'. Dams, Power, and the Politics of Ethiopia's Renaissance provides a detailed examination of the domestic and international political dynamics that shaped Ethiopia's dam building, drawing on extensive primary research including more than a hundred interviews with politicians, technocrats, consultants, and donors. The authors reflect on the implications of Ethiopia's dam building for broader debates about the role of the state in late development, the dynamics of twenty-first century dam building, and the political economy of renewable energy transitions. A central argument of the book is that Ethiopia's dam building is symbolic of the successes and failures of the EPRDF's 'developmental state'. On the one hand, this dams' boom enhanced electricity generation capacity, while constituting a key element of the state infrastructure investment that turned Ethiopia into one of the world's fastest growing economies. In contrast, a politically driven decision-making process undermined electricity planning, contributed to an unsustainable debt burden, and, ultimately, failed to provide reliable electricity access to key users. Following the EPRDF's collapse, the subsequent Prosperity Party government has taken steps away from the state-led development model of its predecessor, while labouring towards the final completion of the GERD.