Transboundary water resources management in the Equatorial Nile Basin (EQNB) is a politically contested issue. There is a growing body of literature examining water-related discourses which identifies the ability of powerful actors and institutions to influence policy. Concern about the effects of future climate change has featured strongly in research on the Nile River for several decades. It is therefore timely to consider whether and how these concerns are reflected in regional policy documents and policy discourse. This study analyzes discourse framings of water resources management and climate change in policy documents (27, published between 2001 and 2013) and as elicited in interviews (38) with water managers in the EQNB. Three main discursive framings are identified which are present in the discourses on both subjects: a problem-oriented environmental risk frame and two solution-oriented frames, on governance and infrastructure development. Climate change discourse only emerges as a common topic around 2007. The framings found in the water resources management discourse and the climate change discourse are almost identical, suggesting that discursive framings were adopted from the former for use in the latter. We infer that the climate change discourse may have offered a less politically sensitive route to circumvent political sensitivities around water allocation and distribution between riparian countries in the EQNB. However, the climate change discourse does not offer a lasting solution to the more fundamental political dispute over water allocation. Moreover, in cases where the climate change discourse is subsumed within a water resources management discourse, there are dangers that it will not fully address the needs of effective adaptation.

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赤道尼罗河流域水资源管理和气候变化的演变讨论

赤道尼罗河流域 (EQNB) 的跨界水资源管理是一个有政治争议的问题。越来越多的文献研究了与水相关的话语，这些话语确定了强大的参与者和机构影响政策的能力。几十年来，尼罗河研究一直强烈关注未来气候变化的影响。因此，及时考虑这些担忧是否以及如何反映在区域政策文件和政策讨论中。本研究分析了政策文件（27，于 2001 年至 2013 年间发布）中以及与 EQNB 中的水资源管理者的访谈（38）中关于水资源管理和气候变化的话语框架。确定了三个主要的话语框架，它们出现在关于这两个主题的话语中：一个以问题为导向的环境风险框架和两个以解决方案为导向的框架，关于治理和基础设施发展。气候变化话语直到 2007 年才成为一个普遍话题。水资源管理话语和气候变化话语中的框架几乎相同，表明后者采用了前者的话语框架。我们推断，气候变化讨论可能提供了一条政治敏感性较低的途径，以规避 EQNB 沿岸国家之间水资源分配和分配的政治敏感性。然而，气候变化话语并没有为更根本的水资源分配政治争端提供持久的解决方案。而且，