Decision Management Tools for Trans-Boundary Water Management in Lake Chad Basin

Adeniran Akanni

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Decision Management Tools for Trans-Boundary Water Management in Lake Chad Basin

Adeniran Akanni

Published in Journal of Water Resources and Ocean Science (Volume 7, Issue 3)

Received: 25 August 2018 Accepted: 14 September 2018 Published: 15 October 2018

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Abstract

The Lake Chad basin, one of Africa’s oldest river basin has shrank to one-tenth of its original size. The environmental degradation that had occurred in the basin over the years has had direct impact on the livelihood of people in the region. The problem in the Lake Chad Basin has also constituted social risks to populations of the region resulting in accelerating global climate change due to years of unsustainable resource use. The ecological degradation in the basin has further exacerbated conflict with attendant terrorism in the region. Using a coordinated science-policy market place of ideas, an event during the EU-AU Workshop in water-energy-food nexus held in Italy in 2016, a team of scientists and policymakers from both Africa and European Union looked at the reason for the water loss and how to make the solution of inter-basin water transfer proffered practicable. Sustainability tools were recommended in the basin to provide policy advice for decision makers while also developing a nexus framework to enhance future sustainability of the basin. This paper also addresses cooperation among different stakeholders by suggesting new governance pattern and opening up the basin to external collaborators to reverse the declining fortune of Lake Chad basin.

Published in	Journal of Water Resources and Ocean Science (Volume 7, Issue 3)
DOI	10.11648/j.wros.20180703.14
Page(s)	49-54
Creative Commons	This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Lake Chad, Trans- Boundary, Basin, Conflict, Management

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Environmental Planning & Climate Change Department, Ministry of Environment, Lagos, Nigeria

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