• Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment and Adaptation: A Comparative Analysis of Reports Produced for Local Governments in South Africa and South East Queensland, Australia 

  Meissner, Richard (Unisa Press, 2023-03-01)

  Climate change is dominating social, political and economic agendas. Because of the salience of the issue, scientists, researchers and consultants have developed a plethora of climate adaptation strategies. In this article ...
• Ideology matters in unravelling Russia’s invasion of Ukraine 

  Meissner, Richard (The Conversation, 2022-05-23)
• Green policies are in place for South Africa’s major port city: but a key piece is missing 

  Meissner, Richard (The Conversation, 2022-04-21)
• Considering the “other” in wildlife crime mitigation: A South African strategy case study 

  Meissner, Richard; Gonçalves, Duarte P (Criminoligal Society of Africa (CRIMSA), 2022-01-17)

  Actors’ worldviews are critical when developing strategies; not every actor holds the same problem perception and solution. This is the case with wildlife trafficking. Not only does the state have an interest in safeguarding ...
• State capture’s impact on South African water sector reform 

  Meissner, Richard (Water Alternatives, 2021-04-15)

  South Africa's water laws and reform policies were once the envy of the world. Today, water infrastructure is deteriorating rapidly and millions more people have no access to a clean water supply than was the case a few ...
• Indigenous paradiplomacy and the Orokawe hydroelectric dam on the Kunene River 

  Meissner, Richard; Warner, Jeroen (Berghan Publishers, 2021-03-01)

  What role can non-diplomats play in managing and altering power relations in transboundary river basins? We answer this by investigating the lobbying eff orts of indigenous peoples to stop the construction of the planned ...
• Southern African transboundary waters: Non-state actors in the Inkomati- Usuthu water management area and the Okavango river basin 

  Meissner, Richard (Taylor & Francis, 2024-01-29)
• Cape Town's “Day Zero” water crisis: A manufactured media event? 

  Warner, Jeroen; Meissner, Richard (Elsevier, 2021-07-17)

  Day Zero was a purposefully designed narrative in political communication to change middle-class water consumption behaviour in a highly visible metropolitan context of persistent drought. As an “affective fact”, however it ...
• eThekwini’s green and ecological infrastructure policy landscape: research paradigms, theories and epistocrats 

  Meissner, Richard (Springer, 2022-01-23)

  The purpose of this paper is to indicate how dominant research paradigms, social theories, and an epistocracy influence the governance of green and ecological infrastructures within a South African local government ...
• Nexus disrupted: Lived realities and the water-energy-food nexus from an infrastructure perspective 

  Bruns, Antje; Meisch, Simon; Ahmed, Abubakari; Meissner, Richard; Romero-Lankao, Patricia (Elsevier, 2022-05-27)

  In recent years, the water-energy-food nexus gained traction in science and policy debates to address the relationships between water, energy and food sectors. Inspired by Political Ecology thinking, we advocate for ...
• Interrelated transformative process dynamics in the face of resource nexus challenges: an invitation towards cross case analysis 

  Lotz-Sisitka, Heila; Pahl-Wostl, Claudia; Meissner, Richard; Scholz, Geeske; Cockburn, Jessica; JALASI, EXPERENCIA; Stuart-Hill, Sabine; Palmer, Carolyn (Taylor & Francis, 2024-02-11)

  The need for more attention to the social and human dimensions in global change sciences and natural resources management requires in-depth understandings of transformative approaches and processes. More inclusive and ...
• Exploring social processes in transformation: the case of a collaborative water partnership in South Africa 

  Pringle, Catherine B.; Meissner, Richard; Biggs, Reinette; Pahl-Wostl, Claudia; Stuart-Hill, Sabine; Sitas, Nadia (Taylor and Francis, 2023-06-05)

  We explore the social processes supporting transformation towards collaborative water governance in the uMngeni catchment, South Africa. Using Holling’s adaptive cycle as a heuristic of phases (conservation, release, ...
• Is the International Criminal Court Unfairly Targeting Africa? Lessons for Latin America and the Caribbean States 

  Benyera, Everisto (Politeia, 2019-03-03)

  Africa, Latin America and Caribbean countries share many common features including a history of colonisation, the ongoing fight against human rights abuses and the resultant pursuance of sustainable peace and justice. One ...
• From the Nuclear Laager to the Non-Proliferation Club: South Africa and the NPT 

  van Wyk, Jo-Ansie; van Wyk, Anna-Mart (2015)

  South Africa is recognised for the termination of its nuclear weapons programme at the end of the 1980s. Despite global diplomatic efforts and sanctions, it took South Africa 21 years to accede to the Treaty on the ...
• Africa in international relations: agent, bystander or victim? 

  Van Wyk, Jo-Ansie (2016)

  The purpose of this contribution is three-fold. Firstly, it attempts to survey some academic literature on African victimhood in contemporary international relations. Secondly, it attempts to dismiss the notion of Africa ...
• Exploring Zimbabwe’s Traditional Transitional Justice Mechanisms 

  Benyera, Everisto (Kamla-Raj, 2014-12)

  Before the institutionalisation of Rwanda’s gacaca courts, transitional justice was predominantly viewed as a western concept which was more legal and punitive. This paper positions traditional transitional justice mechanisms ...
• An Exploration of the Impact of Zimbabwe’s 2005 Operation Murambatsvina on Women and Children 

  Benyera, Everisto; Nyere, Chidochashe (Ife Centre for Psychological Studies/Services, Ile-Ife, Nigeria, 2015-06)

  The article considers the impact of an urban clean-up exercise which was carried out by the Zimbabwe government in 2005. It focuses mainly on the impact of the exercise on urban women and children. The methodology of the ...
• The Contribution of Mass Graves to Healing and Closure: The Case of Chibondo in Mt Darwin, Zimbabwe 

  Benyera, Everisto (Research India Publications, 2014-03)

  The contribution of mass graves to healing and closure has not been fully investigated, especially regarding what kind of contribution mass graves can make to healing and closure, truth finding and apportioning accountability ...
• South Africa’s Postapartheid nuclear diplomacy: practice and principles 

  van Wyk, Jo-Ansie (2015)

  Almost three decades after South Africa dismantled its nuclear weapons programme and weapons, the question remains why the country has not reversed this decision. This contribution, using three illustrative case studies—the ...
• Apartheid South Africa’s nuclear weapons programme and its impact on Southern Africa 

  van Wyk, Jo-Ansie (2014)

  Apartheid South Africa‟s nuclear related activities in Southern Africa have a long history. Apart from, inter alia, the development and existence of at least six nuclear devices (which was denied for decades), South Africa ...

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