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Research project

Field of study: Geography

Research Topic: Geopolitical issues and socio-environmental impacts of dams built on transboundary rivers. A cross-section of the Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on the Nile and the Indian Farakka Dam on the Ganges

Interests

• Geography of risk
• Socio-environmental impacts of large dams
• Governance of transboundary rivers
• Climate change
• Geopolitics of water
• Hydropolitics

Research Areas

• Transversal axis: Governance and management
  Theme 1: Nexus between uses and availability
• Transversal axis: Governance and management
  Theme 2: Risks and disrupters of governance
• Axis Uses of water
  Theme 2: Water uses for primary production

Expertises

• Agricultural water
• Geopolitics
• Governance

Previous Studies

• Master in Geography, Bordeaux Montaigne University & Sciences Po Bordeaux

Affiliations

• Afriques dans le Monde Laboratory (LAM), UMR 5115 CRNS, Bordeaux, France
• Network of Studies and Exchanges in Social Sciences on Water - Rés-EAUx

Directors & Co-Directors

Name Type Axes Expertise Institution

Frédéric
Lasserre
Co-Director

Regular Researcher

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• + 2 other axis

• Geopolitics
• Governance

Université Laval