Publications

CST POLICY BRIEF: Framework for resilient essential services

Essential services, like water and electricity, underpin modern life. Disruption in service delivery
exposes critical inter-dependency, ranging from community level to the national economy.

CST Toolkit: A formative resilience assessment approach

A resilience building workshop was designed to enhance the resilience of essential service delivery in a
sociotechnical systems context through ongoing formative resilience assessments. The workshop utilizes
seven generic resilience building principles, derived from social-ecological systems, found to enhance the
resilience of ecosystem services.

Understanding Social Ecological Regime Shifts: The case of woody encroachment in South Africa.

Humanity has been very successful in modifying the planet to meet the demands of a rapidly growing human population. The dissertation emphasises the importance of understanding the social and ecological interactions that underlie woody encroachment, including the worldviews of land users and managers.

Advancing resilience assessments: the social dimensions of electricity supply in South Africa

Electricity supply serves as a lifeline, is foundational to the effective functioning of modern society, and powers multiple layers of other critical infrastructure systems. This dissertation uses the implications of complexity thinking and resilience thinking to investigate approaches to assess and build the resilience of the embedded social resources required to ensure resilient essential service delivery.

T-labs for Alternative Food Systems in the Western Cape

There is a growing body of experience feeding the design of and motivation for social innovation labs as spaces that can be used to enable transformation or change. Olsson et al. (2004) have described transformation as…

Sustainable energy transition framework for unmet electricity markets.

Understanding electricity legitimacy dynamics in an urban informal settlement in South Africa: A Community Based System Dynamics approach.

Affordability of battery electric vehicles based on disposable income and the impact on provincial residential electricity requirements in South Africa

Towards Measuring the Informal City: A Societal Metabolism Approach

Challenges Facing South Africa’s Electricity Sector Integrated Resource Plan: A Qualitative System Dynamics Approach

Rethinking strategic sustainability planning for the electricity sector in South Africa

The Correlation between Energy Cost Share, Human, and Economic Development: Using Time Series Data from Australasia, Europe, North America, and the BRICS Nations

Estimating current and future global urban domestic material consumption

Towards new configurations of urban energy governance in South Africa’s renewable energy procurement programme.

Renewable energy and local development: seven lessons from the mining industry