Books

  • TRANSFORMATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE for Development of a Wellbeing Economy in Africa

    Publication:

    Year:

    2019

    Authors:

    Desta Mebratu & Mark Swilling

    African countries face unprecedented challenges of defining a future development pathway in a resource- and carbon-constrained world. This book addresses this challenge, with special reference to the set of infrastructure that most African countries require to meet the sustainable development goals and fulfil the aspirations of Agenda 2063. Infrastructure is a key factor that determines how resource and energy flow and transform through socio-economic systems. Decisions made today by African countries on their infrastructural configuration will determine the inclusivity, resource intensity and climate resilience of their development pathways for decades to come. This book is a product of a two‑year research conducted by a group of African scholars who have an extensive academic and practical experience on the development of key infrastructure sectors in Africa.

  • Exploring resilience through the stories of food innovators in the Western Cape, South Africa

    Publication:

    GRAID Policy Brief

    Year:

    2020

    Authors:

    Lindow, M., Biggs, R., Preiser, R. and Pereira, L.

    This book explores ‘storymaking’ as a way of unpacking some of the different capacities that social innovators in the food system of the Western Cape, South Africa, are drawing on in their efforts towards resilience.

  • Food, Energy and Water Sustainability: Emergent Governance Strategies

    Publication:

    Earthscan, Routledge

    Year:

    2018

    Authors:

    Laura M. Pereira, Caitlin A. McElroy, Alexandra Littaye, Alexandra M. Girard

    Societies around the world face an increasingly uncertain future as social and ecological changes create pressure on resource governance, and this uncertainty calls for new models that illuminate the intersections of civ [...]

  • Untamed Urbanism

    Publication:

    New York: Routledge

    Year:

    2015

    Authors:

    Allen, D., Lampis, A. & Swilling, M. (Eds).

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  • Just transitions: Explorations of sustainability in an unfair world

    Publication:

    Cape Town: UCT

    Year:

    2012

    Authors:

    Swilling, M. & Annecke, E.

    Current economic growth strategies around the world are rapidly depleting the natural resources and eco-system services that we depend on. Just Transitions gives a comprehensive overview of these global challenges from a [...]

  • Greening the South African Economy

    Publication:

    Year:

    2016

    Authors:

    Mark Swilling, Josephine Musango, Jeremy Wakeford

    The depletion of South Africa’s (and in some cases the world’s) natural resources and the degradation of environmental sinks (including the atmosphere, lakes and rivers, and land) are continuing at such a rate that natur [...]

  • Critical Complexity: Collected Essays by Paul Cilliers

    Publication:

    De Gruyter

    Year:

    2016

    Authors:

    Cilliers, P. Editor(s): Preiser, R.

    This book is a collection of all the single authored essays by Paul Cilliers, published between 1990-2011. Being one of few authors who approached the study of complexity from a philosophical perspective, the main themes [...]

  • Applied Research for Enhancing Human Well-Being and Environmental Stewardship: Using Complexity Thinking in Southern Africa.

    Publication:

    Ecology and Society

    Year:

    2015

    Authors:

    Palmer C, R Biggs, GC Cumming (eds)

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  • Principles for Building Resilience: Sustaining Ecosystem Services in Social-Ecological Systems

    Publication:

    Cambridge University Press.

    Year:

    2015

    Authors:

    Biggs, R, M Schlüter, M Schoon

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