Affiliation:
1. Department of Global Studies, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA
Abstract
Abstract
The Lesotho Highlands Water Project (LHWP) is a transnational multi-dam infrastructural development project to sell water from Lesotho to South Africa. Based on field and secondary research in Lesotho, I demonstrate how infrastructural projects such as the LHWP shape a geography of risk and become a medium through which riskscapes are created or exacerbated in both South Africa and Lesotho. Project-induced changes interacted with and intensified co-occurring vulnerabilities for communities directly and indirectly affected by the LHWP over time. I focus specifically on risks to livelihood, food insecurity and health, within the context of increased climatic shocks in the region.
Funder
National Science Foundation
U.S. Fulbright Student Program
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Subject
Economics and Econometrics,Sociology and Political Science,Geography, Planning and Development
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