Complexity and Resilience: developing theory and practice
Theme(s): Social-Ecological ResilienceProject Leader(s): Prof. Rika Preiser
This project aims to advance complex adaptive systems and resilience thinking through conceptual development and clarification of the dynamics and features of complex adaptive systems to better understand the related concepts, theories and methods that are used in SES research and practice.
Associated student led projects
- Towards Collaborative Water Governance Transformations (Dr. Charon Marais)
- Towards Re-Imagining the Role of the Change Agent from a Critical Complexity Perspective: A Co-Operative Inquiry Approach (Dr. Deon Cloete)
- Exploring resilience capacities: The art of storymaking with food innovators in the Western Cape ()
- Measuring consequences of ecosystem service change for human wellbeing (Dr. Odirilwe Selomane)
- Exploring connections in social-ecological systems: The links between biodiversity, ecosystem services, and human wellbeing in South Africa (Maike Hamann) ()
- Assessing resilience to regime shifts: the case of bush encroachment (Dr Linda Luvuno)
- Assessing the resilience of electricity supply in South Africa ()