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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"Nile River"”.
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Assessing impacts of climate change on the hydrology of the Nile River
The human population living in the Nile basin is projected to double by 2050, approaching one billion. The increase in water demand associated with this burgeoning population fuels an ongoing water conflict between the riparian countries. Uncertainty regarding potential future changes in the flow …
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Competition and cooperation on the Nile River: a contemporary analysis of Ethiopian - Egyptian relations
… Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam along the Blue Nile, a major tributary to the transboundary Nile River, supports these efforts. Despite objections from Ethiopia's downstream riparian, Egypt, construction has continued, indicating that as Ethiopia establishes itself as a rising power in the Horn …
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Pursuing the common good : overcoming barriers to collective action through transboundary water negotiation along the Blue Nile River
… among countries that share transboundary rivers. At its core, transboundary water governance is a type of collective action problem (Olson 1965), in which sovereign actors must cooperate to achieve a collective interest. In this research, I attempt to delineate common procedural and …
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Water resources management & hydroclimatic data analysis in transboundary river basins under the influence of climate variability & water abstraction : Nile river basin
… witnessed in thechange of land use, damming the rivers and excessive water obstruction andwithdrawal.The sustainable management of the available water resources is essential for futuregenerations and environmental resources, especially with the present and possiblefuture challenges in terms of …
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Model based assessment of potential impacts of climate change on the flow of the main headwaters of the Nile River: Equatorial Lakes Region and Blue Nile Basins
… change on the flow of the main headwaters of the Nile River: Equatorial Lakes Region and Blue Nile basins (Under the direction of Dr. Richard Anyah).</p> <p>Spatially and temporally detailed assessment of the hydrologic processes of the main sources of the Nile River headwaters (Blue Nile basin …
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Learning-Based Modeling of Weather and Climate Events Related To El Niño Phenomenon via Differentiable Programming and Empirical Decompositions
… Pacific Coast of the United States and 2) the Nile River Basin. In these cases, drought and rainfall are tied to deep economic and social factors within the region. The principal aim of this dissertation is to establish, with scientific rigor, an epistemological and foundational justification …
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Estimating Sudan Nile Water Withdrawals During the 20th Century Using a Water Balance Approach
The Nile Basin boundaries define the catchment area for the longest river in the world, which is shared by 11 sovereign states, each with a varying amount of power in basin water negotiations. For several countries in the region experiencing rapid population growth, claiming a portion of shared …
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Building parallel to the Nile
… of years been centred within the zone of the Nile River valley. In the past, this ribbon of arable land was able to support the food requirements of the population and produce a surplus of agricultural products for export. Today, Egypt's population of 54 million exists on 30,000 km.2 of …
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Optimal land and water allocation to agriculture and hydropower in the Upper Blue Nile basin
The Nile basin is an ecosystem under stress due to rapid population growth, urgent needs for more efficient utilization of natural resources, potential impacts of climate change, and persistent conflicts between riparian countries on the limited set of resources. This thesis develops a framework …
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“Caughnawaga Indians were taking part in one of the most dramatic episodes of history…”: Manufacturing Mohawk Nationalism on the Nile Expedition of 1884 – 1885
… who was besieged by Islamic insurgents. The Nile Expedition, as it came to be known, included approximately four hundred Canadian civilians employed to transport troops and supplies down the Nile River. Through the participation of eighty Kanien’kehá:ka (Mohawk) men, the Nile Expedition …
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The Interface between International and National Laws: The Role of National Water Laws and Institutions in Advancing the Implementation of and Compliance with International Obligations-A Nile Case Study
… case study for the implementation of the Nile River Basin Cooperative Framework Agreement (CFA) in Ethiopia and Uganda; and in order to draw lessons for other basins.<br/><br/>Chapter 1 introduces the scope of the research in general, and sets out the basic background on the subject in …
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Understanding uplift of the Ethiopian Plateau from longitudinal profile analysis of the Blue Nile drainage system
… rift zones. About 1.6 km deep gorge of the Nile was carved by the Blue Nile River on the Ethiopian Plateau, as the plateau has been experiencing continuous uplift and exhumation in the Cenozoic. Here, we used quantitative analysis of longitudinal rive-profile forms and parameters (knickpoint …
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Watering the St. Katherine Landscape: Exploring the Nexus between Socio-Economic and Hydro-Cultural Change
… has recently linked this community to the Nile River hundreds of miles away restructuring water consumption patterns throughout the area and reinforcing a sedentarization process that began forty years ago. This thesis offers a critique of this development placing it squarely within the …
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Bayesian estimation of self-similarity exponent
… data, such as the data of water level of the Nile River and fixational eye movements are also discussed.
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Adaptive governance of contested rivers : a political journey into the uncertain
Governance of international rivers is characterized by complex institutional arrangements aimed at minimizing uncertainty and making it difficult for participants to avoid their responsibilities. However, as new information emerges, new impacts of activities on rivers are identified, new …
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Apparent weekly and daily earthquake periodicities in the western United States, and evolution of Wadi Kubbania in Egypt
… conducted in southern Egypt. The ancient Nile River (pre-Eonile) is believed to have flowed west-northwest from the Red Sea Hills due to the Nubian uplift in the Eastern Desert. It continued over Wadi Abu Subeira in the Eastern Desert and across the modern Nile to the Western Desert over …
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An evaluation of lake and river levels as indicators of climate variability in tropical Southern Africa
… Lake Malawi. It forms part of the lower Zambezi River catchment and is part of the Great Rift Valley. Lake Malawi plays a significant role in socio- economic development particularly in food production, health, energy, transport, recreation, and environment. Changes in its level are related to …
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Deciphering multiple changes in complex climate time series using Bayesian inference
… is applied to environmental time series from the Nile river in Aswan and the weather station Tuscaloosa, Alabama comprising documented changes. The method’s performance confirms the approach as a powerful diagnostic tool to decipher multiple changes underlying direct climate observations. Finally, …
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Modernising bioarchaeological methods, a study of ancient egyptian periodontal health
… geographical range of 1,084 kilometers along the Nile river. The aims of this thesis were to test the accuracy of the proposed method, to examine the role of periodontal disease in the oral and systemic health of the ancient Egyptian sample, and to determine the value of periodontal assessment as …
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Modernising bioarchaeological methods, a study of ancient egyptian periodontal health
… geographical range of 1,084 kilometers along the Nile river. The aims of this thesis were to test the accuracy of the proposed method, to examine the role of periodontal disease in the oral and systemic health of the ancient Egyptian sample, and to determine the value of periodontal assessment as …
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