Richard Meissner

Datos Biográficos

ID3708302
NOMBRERichard Meissner
NOMBRESRichard
APELLIDOMeissner
FIRMAMEISSNER R
AFILIACIONESDepartment of Political Sciences, University of South Africa - Muckleneuk Campus: University of South Africa, South Africa
ORCID0000-0002-6288-5735
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS45
TOTAL DE CITAS16
TOTAL COMO AUTOR19
TOTAL COMO EDITOR26
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2002
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2025
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  • Marine life versus energy security

    Open AccessRichard MeissnerARTICLEThe Extractive Industries and…2025Referencias: 10

    In late 2021, protests occurred in South Africa against Shell's planned seismic surveys along the Wild Coast. Environmentalists have expressed concerns that these surveys could adversely affect marine life and harm fisheries and the ecological balance. Critics argued that Shell bypassed environmental assessments to gain permission for these surveys. Activists and protesters urged Shell and the government to halt the exploration to protect the Wil…

  • Water Equity

    Open AccessCarla Jane Higgs, Carla Higgs et al.ARTICLESociety & Natural Resources2025

  • Conflicts over periurban green infrastructure

    Open AccessJoshua Warner, Jeroen Warner et al.ARTICLEGeoforum2025Referencias: 5

  • Interrelated transformative process dynamics in the face of resource nexus challenges

    Open AccessHeila Lotz-Sisitka, Claudia Pahl‐wostl et al.ARTICLEEcosystems and People2024

    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 systemic approaches are needed that embrace complexity and support transformative learning, shifts in power relations, collective and relational agency and structural transformations for adaptive and innovative governance. Scientifi…

  • Exploring social processes in transformation

    Open AccessCatherine B Pringle, Richard Meissner et al.ARTICLEEcosystems and People2023

    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, reorganisation and exploitation) present during transformation of social-ecological systems, we consider the role of learning, power, agency and structure during each phase of the evolution of the uMngeni Ecological Infrastructure Pa…

  • The 1899 proposed Orange River Projects between the Cape and the Orange Free State

    Open AccessRichard MeissnerARTICLEWater History2022Referencias: 13

  • EThekwini’s green and ecological infrastructure policy landscape

    Open AccessRichard MeissnerARTICLEInternational Environmental…2022Referencias: 11

  • Nexus disrupted

    Open AccessAntje Bruns, Simon Meisch et al.ARTICLEGeoforum2022Citada por: 11Referencias: 14

    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 a nexus understanding that acknowledges the political nature of the concept and points to lived and experienced nexus realities. We draw on literature from heterogeneous infrastructures, giving attention to the socio-material entangle…

  • Identity and interests

    Open AccessFarrukh Faheem, Wang Xingang et al.ARTICLECogent Social Sciences2021

    This study discusses Islam as a “strategic entity” in Pakistan’s quest for identity and interests, in its formative years, 1947 to 1956. The end of the post-colonial era not only re-defines the geography of the world but equally redistributes the power structures between the retired empires and the new states. The new players in the pursuits of identity and interests restarted the old game of gain according to their political paradigms. In subseq…

  • Space and the emotional topography of populism in Turkey

    Open AccessSpyros Sofo, Richard MeissnerARTICLECogent Social Sciences2021

    Over the past decade, as ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) initiated Turkey’s authoritarian populist turn, it sought to derive legitimacy through extra-institutional avenues, notably the emotional appeal to the repressed “people”, advancing the party’s socio-political vision, countering the arguments of its political opponents and reaching out to, and inspiring its constituency. Turkey’s urban space, bearing the marks of a century of rep…

  • A history of modern Ethiopia

    Open AccessGebeyehu Temesgen Duressa, Gemechu Kenea Geleta et al.ARTICLECogent Social Sciences2021

    This paper seeks to review works that have been conducted on general history of modern Ethiopia in the last decade of twentieth century. In particular, the review focused on the latest contribution to a series of general histories of Ethiopia by Bahru Zewde, Harold G. Marcus and Teshale Tibebu, respectively. In this review, the reviewers attempt to discuss the sources and methods used by them in reconstructing general history of modern Ethiopia. …

  • Model of creative industry management in border areas to improve bilateral cooperation In Indonesia and Malaysia

    Open AccessElyta Elyta, Ahmad Sahide et al.ARTICLECogent Social Sciences2021

    Every country has the right to cooperate in supporting its interests including cross-border countries. The creative industry is a sector that impacts the people’s economy in Indonesia, both as a solution to unemployment, accommodating domestic workers, and as a source of foreign exchange. This paper aims to design a creative industry management model in border areas in enhancing bilateral cooperation between Indonesia-Malaysia. This research stud…

  • Does liberal democracy promote economic development? interrogating electoral cost and development trade-off in Nigeria’s fourth republic

    Open AccessAloysius-Michaels Okolie, Kelechi Elijah Nnamani et al.ARTICLECogent Social Sciences2021

    The popular thinking in western scholarship projects progressive deepening of liberal democratic principles and praxis as the panacea for economic prosperity in the peripheral socio-economic formation. While comparative studies on these relationships in both established and fledgling democracies have produced differential results, the link between electoral cost and economic development in transitional states is under-studied. This study therefor…

  • The need to adopt a limited liability partnership for the legal profession in the partnership law

    Open AccessYetty Komalasari Dewi, Richard MeissnerARTICLECogent Social Sciences2021

    Traditionally, cooperation between people working within legal professions has taken the form of a partnership, under which each partner may be personally liable to third parties for any damages caused. There have been efforts to limit the liability of the partners in such a partnership. Several jurisdictions have adopted the Limited Liability Partnership (LLP) form, which is derived from the United States of America for legal professions. Other …

  • Ancient Vedic Literature and Human Rights

    Open AccessShailendra Kumar, Sanghamitra Choudhury et al.ARTICLECogent Social Sciences2021

    The Vedic literature constitutes the fulcrum of Sanskrit literature and is repositories of some fundamental concepts of human rights. This manuscript endeavors to decode the tenets of human rights concealed in the Vedic texts. It further endeavors to view a connection between archaic Vedic literature and human rights and approaches the subject of human rights from the perspectives of Vedic texts. As an articulated concept, human rights have disti…

  • The rise of fundamentalist narratives - a post-9/11 legacy? Toward understanding American fundamentalist discourse

    Open AccessMubarak Altwaiji, Richard MeissnerARTICLECogent Social Sciences2021

    Why would a group of writers act in a way that appears to readers as literary fundamentalism, such as post 9/11 American writers? Most of the effective causes underlie superior behaviors, namely, neo-orientalist ideology and imperial interests quite enough to threaten the survival of scholarly literature on 9/11 attacks. Fundamentalist narratives have increasingly become the concern of critics and readers over the last two decades. This study aim…

  • Vicious circle of Ethiopian politics

    Open AccessAbdisa Olkeba, Richard MeissnerARTICLECogent Social Sciences2021

    In Ethiopia, different political reforms have taken place. Following this, the country circled viciously into wars at many times. The Derg regime deposed Emperor Haile Selassie in 1974. And the Derg was defeated by the Ethiopian People Revolutionary Democratic Front coalition party in 1991. Albeit the coalition party ruled Ethiopia for more than 27 years, it obliged to make political reform because of high protest from Oromo youths. However, ther…

  • Africans and the costs of obtaining visas for international migration

    Open AccessAvitus Agbor, Avitus A Agbor et al.ARTICLECogent Social Sciences2021

    Changes in socio-economic dynamics in an increasingly globalized world have triggered a significant increase in migration, especially for individuals from Africa. Voluntary migration comes with numerous costs, both hidden and unhidden. These costs, without doubt, do vary from one individual to another. Taking an evidence-based approach with data collected from the United States’ Department of State, this paper uncovers the expenses shouldered by …

  • The octopus-like power of Pesantren dynasty in the dynamics of local politics

    Open AccessNurul Azizah, Joseph Okwesili Nkwede et al.ARTICLECogent Social Sciences2021

    The Pesantren people’s involvement in politics is a new phenomenon that is considered an impediment to the democratic process and progress. This paper aims to fill the gap in existing research on the dominance of the Pesantren people in local politics, which they seem to have strategically mastered. The methodology in this study involved qualitative data collected through observation techniques, interviews, and documentation. The results were ana…

  • The role of the state in Sino-Ghanaian relations

    Open AccessCharles Amo-Agyemang, Richard MeissnerARTICLECogent Social Sciences2021

    This article critically examines the dominant role of the state at the level of institutions and policies with China to leverage and shape the developmental outcomes of the current relationship. The new win–win relationship has sparked intense debates, which have attracted the reflections of academics and policy makers and Sino-Africa relations in recent decades. Firstly, that China’s African intervention serves as a catalyst for the continent’s …

  • Brexit

    Open AccessMuhammad Ali Baig, Richard MeissnerARTICLECogent Social Sciences2021

    Brexit is a watershed moment in the life of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland that significantly reflects its circumstantial national socio-political and psychological situation. The article argued that national desperation and frustration greatly affect society, politics, and national psychology. These elements trigger and act as the fundamental driving force in shaking and shaping the course of action in the life of natio…

  • Implementing effective environmental policies for sustainable development

    Open AccessThomas Prehi Botchway, Richard MeissnerARTICLECogent Social Sciences2021

    This article discusses the efforts made to ensure the implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in Ghana. The discussion is based on analysis of primary data gathered through interviews and analysis of several official reports, policy documents, legislative instruments, and Acts of Parliament of Ghana that pertains to environmental protection, biodiversity conservation, and sustainable development. The findings have been pres…

  • Mainstreaming youth policy in Zimbabwe – what role for rural youth

    Open AccessPromise Hlungwani, Promise M Hlungwani et al.ARTICLECogent Social Sciences2021

    Youth exclusion in policy formulation and implementation, especially in rural areas, is worsening their socio-economic wellbeing. This article evaluates current youth empowerment policies and the institutions mandated to foster youth emancipation in Zimbabwe. In exploring the compatibility of these policies in a rural context, the researchers purposively selected and interviewed the youths involved in policy implementation and self-help projects …

  • Party’s presidential primaries and the consolidation of democracy in Ghana’s 4th Republic

    Open AccessMichael Amoako Addae, Richard MeissnerARTICLECogent Social Sciences2021

    Democracy under any system of rule is associated with vibrant political parties and credible elections. Both are indispensable in a representative democracy. The good conduct of elections within a political party promotes and consolidates democracy. Political parties in Ghana have suffered internal conflict resulting in factions, break-away, and the formation of new parties because of undemocratic party operations especially in the conduct of pri…

  • New winners and losers in North Waziristan

    Open AccessAsif Iqbal Dawar, Marcos Farias Ferreira et al.ARTICLECogent Social Sciences2021

    There is a growing academic literature on the role of cultural sensitivity in post-conflict peace-building. However, the role of local knowledge in a post-conflict reconstruction setting is rarely discussed explicitly. Attempting to fill the gap, this research paper aims at understanding why local knowledge is imperative to achieve just and equitable post-conflict reconstruction policies and practices. Using qualitative field data, the paper is b…