Research at the CST is largely conducted in collaborative inter- and transdisciplinary teams that draw in expertise from different disciplines as well as from policy, practice and local stakeholders. Much of the research is funded by external project grants, and students are part of the larger project teams which provides additional opportunities for learning and research support.
Research at the CST is focused on six research themes:
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The research conducted at CST focuses on the following empirical research contexts: Food Systems, Water systems, Energy systems and Urban systems. The major research projects are coordinated by a team of researchers.
Major Research Projects:
- State Capacity Research Project
- Bridging Decentralized Energy Planning with Neighbourhood-level Innovations in Cities of Africa
- Guidance for Resilience in the Anthropocene: Investments for Development (GRAID)
- Regime Shifts Database (RSDB)
- Seeds of Good Anthropocenes
- Intergovernmental Panel on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES)
- Southern African Program on Ecosystem Change and Society (SAPECS)
- Creating transformative spaces in the food system
- Complexity and Resilience: developing theory and practice
- International Resource Panel (2011/2012/2017)
- Renewable Energy for Transitions
- Urban report: The Weight of Cities: Resource Requirements of Future Urbanization
- Urban Modelling and Assessment (uMama)
- Complexity and Anticipation
- Establishment of an African TDR Network
- Facilitating cooperation in transdisciplinary research and evaluating its role in SenseMaker® for a developing world context
- Logics and principles for designing emergent transdisciplinary research processes