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Book Review: Dams, displacement, and the delusion of development: Cahora Bassa and its legacies in Mozambique, 1965–2007

Author: Meissner, Richard Date: Oct 2015 Allen and Barbara Isaacman give a sobering account of the consequences of large dams on people living in such a project's immediate vicinity and further afield. The authors focus not only on the impacts on people, but also the social-ecological ... Read more
Book review: Policy Entrepreneurs and Strategies for Change: The Case of Water Management in the Netherlands

Author: Meissner, Richard Date: Jul 2015 Stijn Brouwer’s study of policy entrepreneurs in the Dutch water sector is an excellent example of how an investigation into these political actors needs to be conducted. In this investigation the author was very thoughtful in how he defined ... Read more
Busting myths around urban household water use in South Africa

Author: Meissner, Richard ; Jacobs-Mata, Inga M ; Murambadoro, Miriam D Date: May 2018 Human behaviour is one of the main forces in the utilisation of natural resources. Nowhere has the way people use water been more illustrative than in the current drought-ravaged Cape Town where calls for more prudent water behaviour has led ... Read more
Coming to the party of their own volition: Interest groups, the Lesotho Highlands Water Project Phase 1 and change in the water sector

Author: Meissner, Richard Date: Apr 2016 Interest groups are omnipresent phenomena of most political societies. They are present because of their attempts to influence public policy and their representation role. These roles are fundamental agential roles. Through these roles interest ... Read more
Concepts and views from international relations and their potential contribution to impact assessment thinking and practice

Author: Meissner, Richard Date: Jul 2016 Analysts of environmental impact assessment and sustainability assessment tools recognise that ideally different types of knowledge and thinking need to be incorporated for such tools to be more effective in their sustainability objectives. ... Read more
A critical analysis of research paradigms in a subset of marine and maritime scholarly thought

Author: Meissner, Richard Date: Dec 2014 The application and applicability of the humanities and social sciences are not always visible in the practical world. This is especially the case in technology-dependent areas like the marine and maritime sectors. In these sectors, control, ... Read more
Critical look at South Africa’s Green Drop Programme

Author: Ntombela, Cebile ; Funke, Nicola S ; Meissner, Richard ; Steyn, Maronel ; Masangane, Winile Date: Oct 2016 In this paper we briefly reflect on the different legislation and types of regulatory mechanisms that South Africa’s Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) has in place to try to improve the performance and compliance of water services ... Read more c b
Drivers and barriers towards sustainable water and land management in the Olifants-Doorn Water Management Area, South Africa

Author: Knüppe, K ; Meissner, Richard Date: Nov 2016 Over the last 17 years South Africa's water and land resources management has changed dramatically. This rapid evolution has been accompanied by a growing number of laws and policies to co-balance water allocation for human basic needs and ... Read more
The establishment of Catchment Management Agencies in South Africa with reference to the Flussgebietsgemeinschaft Elbe: Some practical considerations

Author: Meissner, Richard ; Stuart-Hill, S ; Nakhooda, Z Date: Oct 2016 The establishment of catchment management agencies goes beyond the involvement of governmental entities or the stipulations contained in regulatory structures and policies. A number of actors or stakeholders from both the governmental and ... Read more
Governance and politics in the upper Limpopo River Basin, South Africa

Author: Meissner, Richard ; Ramasar, V Date: Oct 2015 Everyday international political economy (EIPE) offers an opportunity to rethink the role of individuals and citizenry in shaping governance of natural resources. In South Africa, significant progress has been made by government in re-shaping ... Read more
Hydro-hegemony or water security community? Collective action, cooperation and conflict in the SADC transboundary security complex

Author: Meissner, Richard Date: Sep 2017 In an anarchical global environment, the conflict potential of shared water resources has made rivers subject to high politics (i.e. security). While researchers and diplomats consider regional treaties as cooperation indicators (Wold 1995), ... Read more
Implementing integrated catchment management in the Limpopo River Basin Phase 1: Situational assessment

Author: Mwenge Kahinda, Jean-Marc ; Kapangaziwiri, Evison ; Engelbrecht, FA ; Meissner, Richard ; Ashton, PJ Date: Oct 2012 A situational assessment of De Beers’ mining operations within a water-stressed area, and close to an ecologically sensitive area, offers useful insights for the development of specific interventions in the areas surrounding their mining ... Read more
Implementing Integrated Catchment Management in the upper Limpopo River basin: A situational assessment

Author: Mwenge Kahinda, Jean-Marc ; Meissner, Richard ; Engelbrecht, FA Date: Oct 2015 A three-phase study was initiated as a way to promote Integrated Catchment Management approaches in the Limpopo River basin. This paper presents the situational assessment, which should enable De Beers to understand how their Venetia Mine ... Read more
Interest groups, water politics and governance: The case of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project

Author: Meissner, Richard Date: Nov 2015 Interest groups are pervasive phenomena of modern society. Although this is so, water governance researchers generally do not include them in their research endeavours. This is especially the case regarding research on transboundary rivers. ... Read more
Paradigms and Theories Influencing Policies in the South African and International Water Sectors: PULSE³, A Framework for Policy Analysis

Author: Meissner, Richard Date: Jan 2017 In this introductory chapter, I will talk about the nature of water research in the South African context. In short, research scientists study water resource management in its various facets to ameliorate problems that could negatively affect ... Read more
Perspectives on water security in the South African context

Author: Funke, Nicola S ; Nortje, Karen ; Meissner, Richard ; Steyn, Maronel ; Ntombela, C ; Masangane, W Date: Dec 2017 This presentation focuses on different perspectives of water security in the South Africa context. The authors link a number of key international perspectives on the topic of water security to official South African government and academic ... Read more
The politics of establishing catchment management agencies in South Africa: the case of the Breede-Overberg catchment management agency

Author: Meissner, Richard ; Funke, Nicola S Date: Sep 2014 South Africa is a water-scarce country, a fact aggravated by climate change and international obligations to neighbouring countries with shared watercourses (Claassen 2010). Some of the political, social and economic pressures facing South ... Read more
The politics of establishing catchment management agencies in South Africa: the case of the Breede-Overberg catchment management agency

Author: Meissner, Richard ; Funke, Nicola S ; Nortje, Karen Date: 2016 We reflect on the politics of establishing catchment management agencies in South Africa with a specific focus on the Breede-Overberg Catchment Management Agency (BOCMA), which was recently replaced by the Breede-Gouritz Catchment Management ... Read more
PULSE cube: Paradigms and theories for creating opportunities and solving problems

Author: Meissner, Richard Date: May 2015 This study report on the presentation about the PULSE cube: Paradigms and theories for creating opportunities and solving problems. Read more
The relevance of social theory in the practice of environmental management

Author: Meissner, Richard Date: Sep 2015 In this paper I argue that the dominance of certain paradigms and theories on policies can have an influence on the value added by impact assessments. A link exists between paradigms and theories and policies and consequently the practices ... Read more

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