In: Petermanns Geographische Mitteilungen, 2003, vol. 1, no. 147, p. 48-55
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In: International Review of Applied Economics, 2019, vol. 33, no. 1, p. 51–70
The purpose of this paper is to improve our understanding of how South African economic actors react to the gradual entry of non-South African BRICS firms in their established business areas. Throughout the twentieth century, South Africa’s trade and investment activities were conducted overwhelmingly with Western countries. However, the end of apartheid coincided with significant shifts as...
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In: Eating, Drinking: Surviving - SpringerBriefs in Global Understanding, 2016, p. 43–49
Access to safe water is a worldwide problem facing three quarters of a billion people every day. The problem of access to water is not primarily due to an overall scarcity of water, but rather the unequal geographical and seasonal distribution of the water resources. The key issue at stake here is, how to make water available. The new approach presented by international institutions for...
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In: GAIA - Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society, 2016, vol. 25, no. 3, p. 191–193
Transdisciplinary research is considered an appropriate mode of knowledge production in the search for pathways towards a more sustainable governance of natural resources. However, the co-production of new knowledge between scientists of different disciplines and nonacademic stakeholders is a challenge that requires novel research designs, methods, and approaches. The MontanAqua team has ...
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In: Water Policy, 2015, vol. 16, no. S2, p. 137
One significant challenge for the operationalization of water justice arises from the many dynamic scales involved. In this paper we explore the scalar dimension of justice in water governance through the insights derived from empirical research on hydropower production in the Swiss Alps and the application of the geographical concept of politics of scale. More specifically, we investigate how...
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