Hydropolitics, Interest Groups and Governance The Case of the Proposed Epupa Dam /

• Main Author: Meissner, Richard (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Environmental Science,
• Subjects: Political science.; Environmental management.; Political theory.; Political economy.; Sustainable development.; Environmental economics.; Political Science and International Relations.; Political Economy.; Political Theory.; Sustainable Development.; Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management.; Environmental Economics.

This book investigates the role that interest groups have played over the years in influencing the government of Namibia, the World Bank, the European Union and project implementation authorities to not construct the proposed Epupa Hydroelectric Power Station on the Kunene River in the Baynes mounta...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Interest Groups, he Kunene River and Epupa’s Imperative
• The Kunene River’s State-centric Hydropolitical History
• The Transnational Role and Involvement of Interest groups in the Epupa Debate
• Interest groups, Scalar Politics and Temporality.