The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam and the Nile Basin

Zeray Yihdego is a Reader in International Law at the University of Aberdeen, UK.

This book, after setting out basin-level legal and policy successes and failures of managing and sharing Nile waters, articulates the opportunities and challenges surrounding the GERD through multiple disciplinary lenses.

1. A Multi-disciplinary Analysis of the Risks and Opportunities of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam for Wider Cooperation in the Nile 2.The Nile Basin Cooperative Framework Agreement: Disentangling the Gordian Knot? 3.Agreement on Declaration of Principles on the GERD: Levelling the Nile Basin Playing Fields? 4.International Law developments on the Sharing of Blue Nile Waters: a fairness perspective 5.Changing cooperation dynamics in the Nile Basin and the role of the GERD 6. GERD and hydropolitics in the Eastern Nile: from water to benefit sharing? 7. Analyzing the Economy-Wide Impacts on Egypt of Alternative GERD Filling Policies 8. Economic Impact Assessment of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam Under Different Climate and Hydrological Conditions 9. From Projecting Hydroclimate Variability to Filling the GERD: Upstream Hydropower Generation and Downstream Releases 10. Managing risks while filling the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam