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.