The nexus as a political commodity: agricultural development, water policy and elite rivalry in Egypt

Verhoeven, Harry

doi:10.1080/07900627.2015.1030725

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“…He also recognizes that globalization carries the risk of transferring stress, through externalization, from the most powerful countries to the more marginal ones. This same message is found in many papers dealing with the nexus [18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32]. Examples are reported in Table 1.…”

Section: Return Of the Neo-malthusianssupporting

confidence: 51%

“…Existing power relations (asymmetries) among the story-tellers will be the ultimate determinants of the final choice of analysis. Indeed, many of the authors addressing the nexus from a social perspective warn about the possible negative consequences that a technocratic approach can imply [1,20,22,24,25,33,34]. Examples of this type of concern include neglect of the issue of livelihood and inequity [20,24,34,35], neglect of the environment [20], and lack of transparency [34].…”

Section: The Ideological Struggle Over the Implications Of The Nexusmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Examples of this type of concern include neglect of the issue of livelihood and inequity [20,24,34,35], neglect of the environment [20], and lack of transparency [34]. Verhoeven [25] explicitly suggests that the choice of a deliberately apolitical identity in the framing of the nexus is used as a strategy for ignoring the implications of power asymmetries. The same point is also signaled by Cairns and Krzywoszynska [1].…”

Section: The Ideological Struggle Over the Implications Of The Nexusmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…[1] Possible use of the nexus as a commodity in political struggles: "the narrative of the nexus-like that of sustainable development, resource scarcity or water wars-can be deployed as a commodity in political struggles, to marginalize opponents, to exclude peripheral populations, to obscure allocation patterns." [25] "Possible use for muddling the difference between 'facts' and 'concerns': "where 'matters of fact' are stabilized and established way of relating to the world, institutionalized by particular (knowledge) cultures . .…”

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confidence: 99%

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Perception and Representation of the Resource Nexus at the Interface between Society and the Natural Environment

Giampietro

2018

Sustainability

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Recent years have seen an explosion of interest in the resource nexus. This has created the co-existence of different understandings and uses of the concept. In this regard, experiences in the EU H2020 project 'Moving towards adaptive governance in complexity: Informing nexus security' are consistent with findings reported in the literature: (i) The inconvenient message of the nexus is difficult to get across, it being incompatible with the currently dominant rosy narratives about sustainability. Indeed, from a historic perspective, the nexus can be seen as a revival of the ideological fight between cornucopians and neo-Malthusians; (ii) Silo structures in existing institutions are a problem for the governance of the nexus, and so is the resulting reductionist strategy of addressing and fixing one issue at the time; (iii) Scientific inquiry is currently not providing the quality inputs needed for a meaningful discussion of the resource nexus. Entanglement of resource flows is rooted in the complex metabolic pattern of social-ecological systems, the analysis of which requires a complex systems approach and relational analysis. Contemporary reductionist models simply make the nexus invisible to the analyst.

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Section: The Ideological Struggle Over the Implications Of The Nexusmentioning

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Perception and Representation of the Resource Nexus at the Interface between Society and the Natural Environment

Giampietro

2018

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“…Political economy can also help to highlight the different manifestations of the nexus. Verhoeven's [16] analysis of the nexus in the highly political transboundary Nile context reminds us that the nexus is a human construct and the interconnections within it are understood in a multitude of ways and scales by different social and ethnic groups across societies, and this can result in contestation between the nexus components.…”

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Chinese State-Owned Enterprise Investment in Mekong Hydropower: Political and Economic Drivers and Their Implications across the Water, Energy, Food Nexus

Matthews¹,

Motta

2015

Water

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Over the last decade, Chinese State-Owned Enterprises have emerged as among the most active investors in Mekong Basin hydropower development. This paper uses a political economy analysis to examine the forces that drive Chinese State-Owned Enterprises to invest in hydropower in the Mekong Basin. We focus our analysis on the Lancang (Upper Mekong River) in China and in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS), with an emphasis on Cambodia. The analysis reveals how powerful political and economic forces from within China and the GMS influence the pace, location and scale of investments in hydropower. These forces include foreign exchange reserves, trade packages and foreign direct investment, and political alliances. Combining the political economy and nexus approaches, we conclude that although policies from China recognize interconnections across the nexus, political and economic forces craft narratives that downplay or disregard these nexus interconnections and trade-offs. This in turn, influences how trade-offs and interconnections in hydropower development are managed and recognized in both local and transboundary contexts, thereby, creating potentially significant negative impacts on livelihoods, food security and the environment.

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Egypt

Molle¹

2019

Irrigation in the Mediterranean

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The nexus as a political commodity: agricultural development, water policy and elite rivalry in Egypt

Cited by 23 publications

References 37 publications

Perception and Representation of the Resource Nexus at the Interface between Society and the Natural Environment

Perception and Representation of the Resource Nexus at the Interface between Society and the Natural Environment

Chinese State-Owned Enterprise Investment in Mekong Hydropower: Political and Economic Drivers and Their Implications across the Water, Energy, Food Nexus

Egypt

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