Rights and participation of communities in the South in global environmental discourses: some initial conceptual and theoretical issues
This paper examines the relationship between citizenship, science and risk, contextualing it in the broader frame of southern African security and development discourses, and in particular in the area of water security in the region. The first main point made is that the broader discussion of environmental security emphasises the need to move away from the traditional focus on state level interactions, towards a more nuanced analysis which tries to take into account other types of relations.