Environmental change, risk and vulnerability: poverty, food insecurity and HIV/AIDS amid infrastructural development and climate change in Southern Africa
2020 ◽
Vol 13
(2)
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pp. 267-291
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Abstract The Lesotho Highlands Water Project (LHWP) is a transnational multi-dam infrastructural development project to sell water from Lesotho to South Africa. Based on field and secondary research in Lesotho, I demonstrate how infrastructural projects such as the LHWP shape a geography of risk and become a medium through which riskscapes are created or exacerbated in both South Africa and Lesotho. Project-induced changes interacted with and intensified co-occurring vulnerabilities for communities directly and indirectly affected by the LHWP over time. I focus specifically on risks to livelihood, food insecurity and health, within the context of increased climatic shocks in the region.
2010 ◽
Vol 18
(3)
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pp. 453-464
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Addressing Climate Change in Southern Africa: Any Role for South Africa in the Post-Paris Agreement?
2016 ◽
Vol 72
(4)
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pp. 395-409
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2018 ◽
Vol 10
(1(J))
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pp. 22-32
1997 ◽
Vol 21
(1)
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pp. 113-136
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