Public opinion is a key factor in the development and deployment of energy systems. The
perspectives of those living near current or proposed energy developments are particularly …

Abstract The World Commission on Dams (WCD) was a global environmental governance
forum that worked between 1998 and 2000 to try to resolve long‐standing controversies …

Background A further increase in renewable energy supply is needed to substitute fossil
fuels and combat climate change. Each energy source and respective technologies have …

Fincha watershed is characterized by the presence of large scale government development
projects, such as hydroelectric dam and sugarcane plantation. Within this watershed, land …

The article analyzes the impacts of the Belo Monte dam construction on the rural labor
mobility dynamics and the effects on the agropastoral activities, in the rural areas of the …

Water crises in arid and semi-arid regions, particularly in desert areas, are considered a
challenge owing to the fact that no functioning solutions have been introduced throughout …

The article takes hydro-development schemes in the Upper Blue Nile Basin of Ethiopia as
an example to discuss the suitability and shortcomings of nexus approaches for the analysis …

This paper explores how the concepts of riskscapes and object formation can be
incorporated into governance theory to provide an analytical lens for risk governance in the …

In Lesotho, large dams supply South Africa with water, earning Lesotho royalties, as well as
supplying this small nation with water and electricity. This study investigated the perceptions …

The authors review two conceptual frameworks of risk management and apply them to the
context of climate change in Africa, based on case studies in Côte d′ Ivoire and Ethiopia …