Living in the shadow of the large dams : : long term responses of downstream and lakeside communities of Ghana's Volta River Project / / by Dzodzi Tsikata.

• Superior document: African social studies series, v. 11
• Author: Tsikata, Dzodzi.
• Year of Publication: 2006
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: African social studies series ; v. 11.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (463 p.)
• Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

This book on dam-affected communities of the Volta River Project breaks with the mould and tackles the question of long term environmental and socio-economic impacts and responses of two often neglected groups of communities- the downstream and lakeside communities.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Abbreviations and acronyms -- Glossary -- Changes in the Ghanaian Currency (1958-2002) -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter One: Introduction -- 2. The National Context -- 3. The Conceptual Framework and Research Methods -- 4. The Book's Sources -- 5. The Structure of the Book -- Chapter Two: The Volta River Project: Historical Perspectives -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Players and the Volta River Project -- 3. The Volta River Project: Conception, Planning and Implementation (1915-1966) -- 4. The Volta River Project as Agreed and Executed -- 5. Assessing the Terms of the Volta River Project -- 6. The Volta River and Dam-Affected Communities: Predicted Impacts and Recommendations -- 7. Summary and Conclusions -- Chapter Three: The Lower Volta and the Volta River Project: Dam Impacts and Environmental Change -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Lower Volta in The 50s and 60s -- 3. Political and Social Institutions -- 4. The Economy and Livelihood Activities of the Lower Volta -- 5. The Lower Volta in the 1960s: Growth of Trading, Artisanal Activities and Waged Employment -- 6. The Post-Akosombo Dam Situation: Impacts of the Volta River Project -- 7. Summary and Conclusions -- Chapter Four: State Policy and Community Responses: The politics of reluctant selective action and ineffectual activism -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Institutional Framework for Addressing Dam Impacts: The VRA's Legal and Institutional Character -- 3. The VRA as Resettler -- 4. The VRA and Migrant Fisher-Folk and their Communities: From Promoting Fisheries to Environmental Protection -- 5. Downstream Communities -- 6. Responses to Dam Impacts and State and VRA Policies: The Politics of Compensation and Development Projects -- 7. Summary and Conclusions.

Chapter Five: Livelihoods in Times of Stress: Long term Responses to Environmental Change at Mepe and Sokpoe -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Background to the Research Communities: Mepe and Sokpoe -- 3. Migration and Livelihoods at Mepe and Sokpoe -- 4. Squeezing Water out of Stone? -- 5. Multiple Livelihood Activities at Mepe And Sokpoe -- 6. Summary and Conclusions -- Chapter Six: The Social Relations of Livelihoods at Mepe and Sokpoe -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Household Relations and Livelihoods -- 3. Kinship and Livelihoods -- 4. Labour Relations outside the household: Using the labour of others -- 5. Acquiring Support Through the Membership of Formal and Informal Associations and Networks -- 6. Livelihoods and Inter-Generational Relations: The Situation of Young People -- 7. Summary and Conclusions -- Chapter Seven: Responses to the Volta River Project: Voluntary Migration and the Establishment of Lakeside Settlements -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Early Period of Migration and the Establishment of Settlements -- 3. Political, Judicial and Social Institutions at Surveyor Line, Kudikope and Kpando Torkor -- 4. Community Relations in Migrant Settlements -- 5. Migrant Settlements and the Different Players in their Environment -- 6. Migrants and their Hometowns -- 7. Summary and Conclusions -- Chapter Eight: From Multiple Activities to Group Specialisation: Livelihoods at Kpando Torkor, Surveyor Line and Kudikope -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Migrant Livelihoods around the Volta Lake: Historical Perspectives -- 3. The Organisation of Livelihoods activities around the Lake -- 4. Gender Relations and Marital Politics in the Organisation of Livelihoods in Migrant Settlements -- 5. Labour Relations Outside the Household in the Organisation of Livelihoods: Gender and Class in Practice -- 6. Child Labour in Migrant Communities.

7. Older Migrants and the Decline in Livelihoods around the Volta Lake -- 8. Summary and Conclusions -- Chapter Nine: Concluding Chapter -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Volta River Project in Wider Perspective -- 3. Summary Of Main Arguments And Findings -- 4. Conceptual And Policy Implications -- References -- Index.